Film Funding

  • My Father Killed Bourguiba

    Spring Grants 2021 - Development Stage

    This film depicts the journey of director Fatma Riahi, in search of her father's story. A searc…

    Fatma Riahi / Tunisia, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • My Love Awaits Me by the Sea

    Fall Grant 2011 - Production Stage

    ‘My Love Awaits Me by the Sea’ is a poetic documentary that narrates the story of its director,…

    Mais Darwazah / Jordan, Palestine, Qatar, Germany / Feature Documentary

  • My Uncle the "Terrorist"

    Spring Grant 2013 - Production Stage

    When I was a child, there was a portrait of a man in our house. I never knew who he was; nobody…

    Elias Moubarak / Lebanon, Germany, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • O My Body!

    Fall Grant 2012 - Post-Production Stage

    Seeking to bridge Mediterranean cultures, choreographer Abou Lagraa and his wife, dancer Nawal…

    Laurent Aït Benalla / France, Qatar, Morocco / Feature Documentary

  • Off Frame AKA Revolution Until Victory

    Fall Grant 2013 - Production/Post-Production Stage

    What is left today from the Palestinian revolution are some images and sounds, pieces of film s…

    Mohanad Yaqubi / Palestine, France, Qatar / Feature Experimental or Essay

  • Out on the Streets

    Spring Grant 2013 - Production Stage

    Nine men gather for a workshop on a rooftop. There they perform confrontations of everyday life…

    Jasmina Metwaly, Philip Rizk / Egypt, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • Plastic Flowers‏

    Spring Grants 2018 - Production Stage

    A documentary about the experience of enforced disappearance in the prisons of ISIS told throug…

    Amer Mattar / Syria, Germany, Sweden, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • Qatar Stars

    Spring Grants 2022 - Post-Production Stage

    'Qatar Stars' is the first feature documentary focused on girls in Qatar. It follows “The Olymp…

    Danielle Beverly / Qatar, United States of America / Feature Documentary

  • Railway Men

    Spring Grant 2013 -

    Conducting the trains of Line #1, the country’s deadliest, five employees struggle with the dar…

    Erige Sehiri / Tunisia, France, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • Requiem for a Tribe

    Spring Grants 2024 - Post-Production Stage

    Hajar has a dream. She wants to reconnect with her childhood memories and the traditions of her…

    Marjan Khosravi / Iran, Spain, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • The Rise of the Gulf / Beyond Black Gold

    Spring Grant 2013 - Production Stage

    Two films to tell the incredible tale of the metamorphosis of the Gulf’s emirates over the cour…

    Frédéric Compain / France, Qatar, Kuwait / Feature Documentary

  • Rising up at Night

    Spring Grants 2023 - Post-Production Stage

    Kinshasa, the capital city of 17 million people, is plunged into darkness and insecurity as its…

    Nelson Makengo / Congo, Democratic Republic of the, Belgium, Germany, Burkina Faso, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • River of Toads

    Fall Grants 2022 - Post-Production Stage

    A sensorial portrait that follows the traditional healer Francisca Hernandez, an inhabitant of…

    Juan Carlos Núñez Chavarría / Mexico, Qatar / Feature Documentary or Essay

  • Salaam Plenty

    Spring Grant 2012 - Development Stage

    'Salaam Plenty' is about the memory and erasure of the presence of Afghan cameleers in Australi…

    Samira (Yasmine) Kassari / Morocco, Australia, Belgium, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • Scenes from a Revolt Sustained

    Spring Grant 2011 - Production Stage

    Examining the culture and history of Tunisia and how it has been mediated or ignored by the Wes…

    Kays Mejri, Matt Peterson / France, Tunisia, United States of America, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • She Was Not Alone

    Spring Grants 2024 - Post-Production Stage

    ‘She Was Not Alone’ is a film about the inner, poetic world of Fatima, an inspiring and indepen…

    Hussein Al-Asadi / Iraq, United States of America, Saudi Arabia, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • Somebody Clap for Me

    Fall Grant 2012 -

    This poetic rollercoaster ride chronicles Ugandan youth reclaiming their right to a voice by br…

    Luciana Ceccatto Farah / Brazil, Uganda, United Kingdom, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • Son of the Streets

    Spring Grants 2022 - Production Stage

    ‘Son of the Streets’ is a poignant and inspiring film that follows Khodor, a Palestinian child…

    Mohammed Almughanni / Palestine, Poland, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • Souraya Mon Amour (Working Title)

    Fall Grants 2022 - Development Stage

    Excerpts from the film 'Little Wars', an old correspondence, and other family and personal arch…

    Nicolas Khoury / Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • The Source

    Fall Grants 2018 -

    November 2010. The Tunisian national anthem rings throughout the Thala High School courtyard. T…

    Erige Sehiri / Tunisia, Switzerland, Qatar / TV Series