Film Funding

  • Manity

    Spring Grants 2021 - Production Stage

    On a calm sunny day, Firas, an 11-year-old boy, accompanies his father Tayseer and his father’s…

    Hussen Ibraheem / Lebanon, France, Qatar / Short Narrative

  • Mariam

    Spring Grant 2013 - Production Stage

    Ever since she attended the Hajj with her grandmother, Mariam has covered her head, but when Fr…

    Faiza Ambah / France, Qatar, Saudi Arabia / Short Narrative

  • Mary

    Spring Grants 2021 - Development Stage

    'Mary' showcases a bittersweet story about the daily life of a 65-year-old woman, Mary, and her…

    Abdulaziz Khashabi, Abdulla Al-Janahi / Qatar / Short Narrative

  • Mary

    Fall Grants 2021 - Production Stage

    'Mary' showcases a bittersweet story about the daily life of a 65-year-old woman, Mary, and her…

    Abdulaziz Khashabi, Abdulla Al-Janahi / Qatar / Short Narrative

  • Mary

    Spring Grants 2022 - Post-Production Stage

    'Mary' showcases a bittersweet story about the daily life of a 65-year-old woman, Mary, and her…

    Abdulaziz Khashabi, Abdulla Al-Janahi / Qatar / Short Narrative

  • Mediterranea

    Fall Grant 2014 - Post-Production Stage

    As ‘Mediterranea’ opens in Algeria, Ayiva and his friend Abas climb onto a truck packed to burs…

    Jonas Carpignano / Italy, France, Germany, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Mediterranean Fever

    Fall Grants 2018 - Production Stage

    Winner of the best screenplay award in Cannes’ Un Certain Regard section last year, the darkly…

    Maha Haj / Palestine, France, Germany, Qatar, Cyprus / Feature Narrative

  • Memories on Stone

    Fall Grant 2012 - Production Stage

    ‘You have to be crazy to make a film in Kurdistan.’ So says one of the characters in Shawkat Am…

    Shawkat Amin Korki / Germany, Qatar, Iraqi Kurdistan Region / Feature Narrative

  • Memory Hotel

    Fall Grants 2016 - Post-Production Stage

    Germany, 1945. World War II is nearing its climactic end. Five-year-old Sophie and her parents…

    Heinrich Sabl / Germany, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Men in the Sun

    Fall Grant 2013 - Development Stage

    Chatila, Fatah and Abu-Love, three Palestinian refugees, dream of escaping Athens after seven y…

    Mahdi Fleifel / Palestine, Greece, United Kingdom, Denmark, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Miara

    Fall Grants 2022 - Development Stage

    Miara and her father, Ahar, are outcasts by choice, living in the hostile lands of 7th-century…

    Talal Selhami / Morocco, Qatar / TV Series

  • Mica

    Fall Grants 2019 - Post-Production Stage

    Ten-year-old Mica lives with his mother and sick father in a slum in the suburbs of Meknes, whi…

    Ismaël Ferroukhi / France, Morocco, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Mimosas

    Fall Grant 2015 - Post-Production Stage

    An elderly sheikh, nearing death, seeks to travel to his birthplace in the Atlas Mountains so h…

    Oliver Laxe Coro / Spain, Morocco, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Mornings in Jenin

    Fall Grants 2020 - Development Stage

    Philadelphia 2001. Amal lives an unremarkable life with her daughter, Sara, but mother and daug…

    Annemarie Jacir / Palestine, United States of America, United Kingdom, Qatar / TV Series

  • Mother Valley

    Spring Grants 2020 - Development Stage

    Northern Lebanon, summer of 1958—in a small village in the ancient Christian Qadisha Valley, ma…

    Carlos Chahine / France, Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Motherhood

    Spring Grants 2019 - Production Stage

    Aicha (45), a Tunisian mother gifted with prophetic dreams, lives in the isolated north of Tuni…

    Meryam Joobeur / Tunisia, Canada, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Mountain

    Fall Grant 2013 - Production Stage

    Day breaks on the eighth floor in a suburban neighbourhood of Lisbon and 14-year-old David’s gr…

    João Salaviza / Portugal, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • The Mountain

    Fall Grant 2010 - Post-Production Stage

    A work of shadowy implosion, the stark and largely silent narrative of Lebanese director Ghassa…

    Ghassan Salhab / Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Musk

    Fall Grants 2016 - Production Stage

    After giving up a promising career in museum management to attend to his ailing father, Ahmed s…

    Humaid Alsuwaidi / United Arab Emirates, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Mustang

    Fall Grant 2014 - Post-Production Stage

    A village by the Black Sea, far from Istanbul. When they play a game in which they sit on boys’…

    Deniz Gamze Ergüven / Turkey, France, Germany, Qatar / Feature Narrative