Film Funding

  • Home Sweet Home

    Fall Grant 2011 - Production Stage

    The filmmaker’s father spent 40 years as the director of a secular school he founded in Beirut’…

    Nadine Naous / France, Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • Homemade Stories

    Spring Grant 2013 - Production, Production, Production Stage

    Nidal, a Syrian filmmaker, must leave his home city of Damascus. He locks his door behind him a…

    Nidal Al Dibs / Egypt, Qatar, Syria / Feature Documentary

  • The House That My Mother Built

    Spring Grants 2023 - Production Stage

    While the Sudanese revolution’s defeats and victories were mainly captured and seen from outsid…

    Alyaa Musa / Sudan, Qatar / Web Series

  • I Am One of Them

    Spring Grants 2023 - Production Stage

    At the lake of a small town, Grzegorz makes a living by guiding tourist cruises on his boat, on…

    Nadim Suleiman / Poland, Syria, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • In The Name Of Safia

    Fall Grants 2023 - Production Stage

    An unfinished interview with my father, Tayeb Kessas, in February 2019, just before his death,…

    Safia Kessas / Algeria, Belgium, France, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • Invasion

    Fall Grant 2013 - Post-Production Stage

    On the night of 20 December, 1989, the USA launched a massive invasion of otherwise peaceful Pa…

    Abner Benaim / Panama, Argentina, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • Jump the Wall

    Spring Grants 2022 - Post-Production Stage

    A filmmaker has come to Sweden to present his film 'The Healer'. He receives a surprising call…

    Mohamed Zineddaine / Morocco, Spain, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • The Language of Fire

    Spring Grants 2023 - Post-Production Stage

    It was night inside of me. Somewhere in the world, my being was torn in two. One was searching…

    Tarek Sami / Algeria, France, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • The Last Days with Eliane

    Spring Grants 2022 - Production Stage

    'The Last Days with Eliane' is a look at my maternal grandmother—mother of six children, French…

    Mehdi Hajri / Tunisia, Qatar / Short Documentary

  • The Lebanese Rocket Society

    Fall Grant 2011 - Post-Production Stage

    When filmmakers Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige inadvertently discovered that their native…

    Khalil Joreige, Joana Hadjithomas / Lebanon, France, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • Loving Wallada

    Fall Grants 2018 - Post-Production Stage

    Wallada, the only child of one of the last Umayyad caliphs, al-Mustakfi murdered in 1025, asser…

    Nacer Khemir / Tunisia, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • L’mina

    Spring Grants 2023 - Production Stage

    The film is set in Jerada, a former mining town in northeast Morocco that experienced its golde…

    Randa Maroufi / France, Morocco, Italy, United Arab Emirates, Qatar / Short Experimental or Essay

  • The Maghrebim

    Fall Grant 2011 - Production Stage

    The director returns to the roots of his family’s history, starting from footage his parents fi…

    Ivan Boccara / Morocco, France, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • The Marriage Project

    Fall Grants 2018 -

    Encourage the patients from a mental hospital to form relationships with each other, get marrie…

    Atieh Attarzadeh, Hesam Eslami / Iran, France, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • Matoub Lounès: The Story of a Legend

    Spring Grant 2012 - Development Stage

    In the Berber-speaking world, Kabyle singer Matoub Lounès is a legend. Assassinated in 1998, he…

    Régine Abadia / Algeria, France, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • Midnight Traveler

    Spring Grants 2018 -

    When the Taliban puts a bounty on Afghan director Hassan Fazili’s head, he is forced to flee wi…

    Hassan Fazili / Afghanistan, United States of America, United Kingdom, Canada, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • Mohammad Saved from the Waters

    Spring Grant 2011 - Production Stage

    After six years of dialysis and because he refused to accept a transplant, my brother Mohammad…

    Safaa Fathy / Egypt, France, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • Monisme

    Fall Grants 2022 - Post-Production Stage

    Repressed by state-sponsored violence, a mystic is determined to remain on his land in the foot…

    Riar Rizaldi / Indonesia, Qatar / Feature Documentary or Essay

  • Mother Street

    Spring Grants 2022 - Development Stage

    'Mother Street' offers us portraits of homeless Moroccan orphans. Some remain in Morocco, while…

    Amine El Mouêtassim / France, Morocco, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • My Dream To Fly

    Fall Grants 2021 - Development Stage

    Ali, Salama, and Helewa live in a slum in Qalyoub Sanafir, Cairo. They also share the same pass…

    Asmaa Gamal / Egypt, Qatar / Feature Documentary