Film Funding

  • Speak Image, Speak

    Spring Grants 2024 - Development Stage

    Palestinian history is largely ignored by the German public. After the attack by Palestinian as…

    Pary El-Qalqili / Germany, Qatar / Feature Experimental or Essay

  • 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

  • The Star

    Spring Grants 2024 - Production Stage

    This short documentary delves into the life of my mother, Chimene, a remarkable woman in her la…

    Ingrid Zoghby / Lebanon, Qatar / Short Documentary

  • Sudan, Remember Us

    Fall Grants 2023 - Post-Production Stage

    Shajane, Maha, Muzamil, Rufaida, Khattab. They are Sudanese in their twenties, politically acti…

    Hind Meddeb / Tunisia, France, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • Talking About Trees

    Fall Grants 2018 -

    Ibrahim, Suleiman, Manar and Altayeb are founding members of the ‘Sudanese Film Group’. Friends…

    Suhaib Gasmelbari / France, Sudan, Germany, Chad, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • Terra Firma

    Fall Grant 2013 - Production Stage

    In a small commercial harbour in the south of France, two Moroccan sailors are watching over fe…

    Laurent Aït Benalla / Morocco, France, United Arab Emirates, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • The Forbidden Strings

    Fall Grants 2018 - Post-Production Stage

    During the day, they are labourers and do what most Afghan refugees do in Iran, which is carpen…

    Hasan Noori / Afghanistan, Iran, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • Those Who Watch Over

    Spring Grants 2024 - Post-Production Stage

    In a never-ending ballet of shovels digging new graves every day, four characters are confronte…

    Karima Saidi / Belgium, France, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • The Virgin, the Copts and Me

    Fall Grant 2011 - Post-Production Stage

    Namir is a French filmmaker of Egyptian origin. One day he watches a videotape of the Virgin Ma…

    Namir Abdel Messeeh / France, Qatar, Egypt / Feature Documentary

  • Walls and People

    Spring Grant 2012 - Production Stage

    This film is a cry from the heart of the Medina of Casablanca for its inhabitants and their mem…

    Dalila Ennadre / Morocco, Algeria, France, United Arab Emirates, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • Walou

    Fall Grant 2011 - Development Stage

    I hate the bled! When I was young, every summer, going to Algeria, I couldn’t do anything witho…

    Hassiba Belhadj / Algeria, France, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • We Are Inside

    Fall Grants 2018 - Production Stage

    Being away for a decade, Farah returns to her father’s place in her hometown Tripoli, Lebanon.…

    Farah Kassem / Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • What's Your Story? Part I

    Fall Grant 2011 - Production/Post-Production Stage

    Jamal, a Palestinian citizen of Israel, meets five young Israelis with differing ideological pe…

    Jamal Khalaile, Pauline Carbonnier / Palestine, France, Qatar / Feature Experimental or Essay

  • While We Watched

    Spring Grants 2021 - Post-Production Stage

    Vinay Shukla / India, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • Writing Hawa

    Fall Grants 2023 - Post-Production Stage

    Filmed over five years, “Writing Hawa” is the story of three generations of Hazara women from t…

    Najiba Noori, Rasul Noori / France, Netherlands, Afghanistan, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • Zaynab's Sisters

    Fall Grant 2011 - Production Stage

    Sama, a 25-year-old woman of Egyptian origin raised in Italy, has just received her degree in p…

    Carolina Popolani / Egypt, Italy, Qatar / Feature Documentary