Film Funding

  • A Simple Cut

    Fall Grants 2020 - Production Stage

    After 13-year-old Kholoud rebels and cuts her hair without her mother's approval, what should b…

    Maha Al-Jefairi / Qatar / Short Narrative

  • A Simple Cut

    Spring Grants 2022 - Post-Production Stage

    After 14-year-old Kholoud rebels and cuts her hair without her mother's approval, what should b…

    Maha Al-Jefairi / Qatar / Short Narrative

  • Sister

    Spring Grants 2018 -

    In a small town in present-day Bulgaria, a mother and her two daughters are struggling to survi…

    Svetla Tsotsorkova / Bulgaria, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Six Feet Over

    Fall Grants 2020 - Production Stage

    Sofiane is an Algerian who has enjoyed a relatively easy life growing up abroad as a diplomat's…

    Karim Bensalah / Algeria, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Soaring Over Mayhem

    Spring Grants 2017 - Production Stage

    In the brutal lands of northern Syria, 10- year-old bird enthusiast Rami struggles to survive a…

    Abdullah Al-Wazzan / Kuwait, Qatar / Short Narrative

  • Son of a Dog

    Spring Grant 2013 - Development Stage

    Set against the backdrop of a never-ending war, ‘Son of a Dog’ is the coming-of-age story of 17…

    Alain Sauma / Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Speed Sisters

    Spring Grant 2014 - Post-Production Stage

    Meet Marah, Mona, Betty, Noor and Maysoon – the first all-woman rally-racing team in the Middle…

    Amber Fares / Palestine, United States of America, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • Tangier Stories

    Fall Grant 2015 - Development Stage

    In contemporary Morocco, Hayat brings Soussen, her 12-year-old daughter, from their poor villag…

    Fyzal Boulifa / France, Morocco, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • The Dragon Blood Island

    Fall Grants 2019 - Production Stage

    ‘The Dragon Blood Island’ is a short documentary that focuses on the beauty of what has been de…

    Sufian Abulohom / Yemen, United States of America, Qatar / Short Documentary

  • They

    Fall Grant 2014 - Production Stage

    Fourteen-year-old J goes by the pronoun ‘They” and lives with their parents in the suburbs of C…

    Anahita Ghazvinizadeh / Iran, United States of America, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Tiger Stripes

    Fall Grants 2022 - Post-Production Stage

    The first amongst her friends to hit puberty, Zaffan, 12, discovers a terrifying secret about h…

    Amanda Nell Eu / Malaysia, Taiwan, Singapore, France, Germany, Netherlands, Indonesia, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • The Time Tree

    Fall Grants 2017 - Production Stage

    Based on the children’s novel by the best-selling author Enid Richemont, 'The Time Tree' is a s…

    Celine Cotran / Lebanon, United Kingdom, Qatar / Short Narrative

  • Too Late to Die Young

    Fall Grants 2017 -

    The summer of 1990 in Chile. A small group of families lives in an isolated community right bel…

    Dominga Sotomayor / Chile, Brazil, Argentina, Netherlands, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Trouble Magnet

    Fall Grants 2023 - Development Stage

    Growing up in Germany with Palestinian roots, Ali, a dramatic teenager, grapples with a persist…

    Ahmad Saleh / Palestine, Germany, Jordan, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Tunis-Djerba

    Spring Grants 2021 - Development Stage

    Since her father’s death, Alyssa (19) has become the caretaker of her depressed mother and litt…

    Amel Guellaty / Tunisia, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Two or Three things I don't know about her

    Spring Grants 2021 - Production Stage

    Lila is an 18-year-old girl living in Brest, France. She recently decided to wear a veil, to th…

    Sabrina Idiri Chemloul / France, Qatar / Short Narrative

  • Under Her Skin

    Fall Grants 2017 - Production Stage

    Oran, Algeria. When her mother forbids her from biting her nails, Sarah must now abide by rules…

    Meriem Mesraoua / Qatar, Algeria, France / Short Narrative

  • Under Her Skin

    Spring Grants 2020 - Post-Production Stage

    When her mother forbids her from biting her nails, Sarah must now abide by rules she does not f…

    Meriem Mesraoua / Qatar, Algeria, France / Short Narrative

  • Unremember

    Spring Grants 2018 -

    Joana is a 15-year-old who feeds her soul with literature and rock. She lives in Paris with her…

    Flavia Castro / Brazil, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Waves '98

    Spring Grant 2014 - Production Stage

    The complex relationship of contemporary Beirutis to their troubled home city is beautifully im…

    Ely Dagher / Lebanon, Qatar / Short Narrative