Film Funding

  • The Insomnia of a Serial Dreamer

    Spring Grants 2016 -

    Facing his insomniac nature, the author of this film meets with several people, asking each one…

    Mohamad Soueid / Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Experimental or Essay

  • The Invented Biography

    Fall Grants 2017 -

    Arturo Belano, alter ego of the writer Roberto Bolaño, shared with his creator a significant pa…

    Nicolás Lasnibat / France, Chile, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • It Comes By Night

    Spring Grants 2019 - Post-Production Stage

    When men turn up dead, the old folks whisper of the "aswang"—a shapeshifting beast from folklor…

    Alyx Ayn Arumpac / Philippines, France, Norway, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • It Snows at Sidi Bou Said

    Fall Grants 2020 - Production Stage

    My relentless travels between Paris and Tunis provoke as many discussions with my children as q…

    Fatma Chérif / Tunisia, France, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • Jean Genet, Our Father Of Flowers

    Spring Grants 2020 - Post-Production Stage

    An anonymous grave in the middle of a cemetery with a view of the sea. We are in Larache, south…

    Dalila Ennadre / Morocco, France, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • Jodari Meno

    Fall Grants 2020 - Production Stage

    Born and raised in Qatar—a small middle eastern country that developed from a fishing village t…

    Jamal Al-Khanji, David Ochoa / Qatar, Italy, Zanzibar / Feature Documentary

  • Kash Kash

    Fall Grants 2019 - Production Stage

    My hometown, Beirut, is torn apart by a corrupt political elite, anti-government protests, and…

    Lea Najjar / Lebanon, Germany, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • Khmerica

    Fall Grants 2021 - Post-Production Stage

    Sokha is a Khmer-American. The son of Cambodian refugees, he grew up in the United States. He w…

    Antoine GUIDE / France, Cambodia, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • The Last Hillbilly

    Spring Grants 2020 - Post-Production Stage

    In the Appalachian Mountains, east of Kentucky, people feel less American than Appalachian. The…

    Thomas Jenkoe, Diane Bouzgarrou / France, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • Les Enfants Terribles

    Fall Grants 2020 - Post-Production Stage

    In Keskincik, a village situated near the Syrian border of Turkey, a young man, Mahmut wishes t…

    Ahmet Necdet Cupur / France, Germany, Turkey, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • Listen to the Silence

    Spring Grants 2016 -

    Nine years old and almost always smiling, Luka lives in a boarding school for deaf children, wh…

    Mariam Chachia / Georgia, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • Little Palestine: Diary of a Siege

    Spring Grants 2019 -

    The district of Yarmouk in Damascus, Syria, sheltered the largest Palestinian refugee camp in t…

    Abdallah Al-Khatib / Lebanon, France, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • Liyana

    Spring Grant 2015 - Production Stage

    Liyana is a young, fictional girl created by several young orphans in Swaziland, where the scou…

    Aaron Kopp, Amanda Kopp / Swaziland, Qatar, United States of America / Feature Documentary

  • Locals. Qatar.

    Fall Grants 2020 - Production Stage

    Locals of all classes, professions, genders, and backgrounds talk about their dreams, responsib…

    Saud Al-Thani, Stephen Ochsner / Qatar / Web Series

  • Looking For the Man with the Camera

    Spring Grant 2015 -

    "Looking for the Man with the Camera" is a journey that takes the narrator from Geneva to the…

    Boutheyna Bouslama / France, Switzerland, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • Machtat

    Spring Grants 2019 - Development Stage

    Fatma and her two daughters Najeh and Waffeh, live in the neighbourhood of Bir Beranek in Mahdi…

    Sonia Ben Slama / Tunisia, France, Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • The Man Behind the Microphone

    Fall Grant 2014 - Post-Production Stage

    Hedi Jouini is the most popular musical star in Tunisian history, known as the “Frank Sinatra o…

    Claire Belhassine / Tunisia, United Kingdom, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • The Man Who Stole Banksy

    Fall Grants 2017 -

    In 2007, anonymous street artist and activist Banksy painted a number of politically divisive a…

    Marco Proserpio / United Kingdom, Italy, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • A Man on Fire

    Spring Grants 2017 - Production Stage

    The story of a man who was born and raised in a modest environment and aspired to be a superher…

    Ibrahim Harb / Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • Merry Christmas, Yiwu

    Spring Grants 2019 - Post-Production Stage

    Communist ideals have long lost their value in Yiwu, a city with 600 Christmas factories, in wh…

    Mladen Kovacevic / Serbia, Sweden, Germany, France, Belgium, Qatar / Feature Documentary