Film Funding

  • The President's Visit

    Spring Grants 2016 -

    In a small fishing town, Nino sells soap at his Sultan of Soap shop. When he received a highly…

    Cyril Aris / Lebanon, United States of America, Qatar / Short Narrative

  • Prisoner and Jailer

    Spring Grants 2018 - Production Stage

    The story of two contrasting Libyans, one a key official in the former regime, the other one of…

    Muhannad Lamin / Libya, Qatar / Short Narrative

  • Professor

    Spring Grant 2012 -

    In 1977, Khalil Khalsawi, a constitutional law teacher in Tunis, is commissioned by the governi…

    Mahmoud Ben Mahmoud / Tunisia, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Queens

    Fall Grants 2019 - Production Stage

    Casablanca, Morocco. A trio of women with the police on their tail embarks on a long escape th…

    Yasmine Benkiran / Morocco, France, Belgium, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Rabbat El Bait

    Fall Grants 2023 - Production Stage

    ‘Rabbat El Bait’ is a story of Mariam, a widowed mother’s life and struggles. From raising her…

    Fatima Abuhaliqa / Qatar / Short Experimental or Essay

  • Red Path

    Fall Grants 2018 - Production Stage

    Two young shepherds, Nizar (16), and his cousin Achraf (14) are grazing their goats on a…

    Lotfi Achour / Tunisia, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Rehana Maryam Noor

    Spring Grants 2020 - Post-Production Stage

    Rehana, a 37-year-old assistant professor in a private medical college, struggles to keep the h…

    Abdullah Mohammad Saad / Bangladesh, Singapore, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Rest In Piece

    Spring Grants 2018 - Production Stage

    Amidst a cacophony of shelling, Midyan is forced to flee his war-torn home. Packing only a suit…

    Antoine Antabi / Germany, France, Qatar / Short Narrative

  • The Return

    Fall Grant 2015 - Production Stage

    Taysir, a historian in his fifties, has settled in the French city of Marseille with his wife M…

    Meyar Al-Roumi / France, Germany, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Return to Seoul

    Spring Grants 2022 - Post-Production Stage

    On an impulse to reconnect with her origins, Freddie, 25, returns to South Korea for the first…

    Davy Chou / France, Germany, Belgium, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Revenge Knows Nothing

    Fall Grants 2020 - Post-Production Stage

    Unfortunately, we live in a world filled with injustice and selfish human actions. 'Revenge Kno…

    Abdulaziz Khashabi, Abdulla Al Janahi / Qatar / Short Narrative

  • A Reverence for Spiders

    Fall Grant 2011 - Development Stage

    New York-based imam Omar Metwally develops an unlikely friendship with the homeless teenager wh…

    Faiza Ambah / Saudi Arabia, United States of America, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Rey

    Fall Grant 2015 - Post-Production Stage

    In 1860, a 35-year-old Frenchman explores Araucania, an autonomous region of southern Chile. Th…

    Niles Atallah / Chile, France, Netherlands, Germany, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Riverbed

    Fall Grants 2016 - Production Stage

    Riverbed tells the story of Salma and her returning daughter Thuraya, and their attempt to pres…

    Bassem Breche / Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • A Road to Damascus

    Spring Grants 2019 - Development Stage

    Based on Meedo’s novel of the same title. A bus carrying immigrant farmers is gunned down just…

    Meedo Taha / Lebanon, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • The Rooftops

    Fall Grant 2012 - Production Stage

    Algiers. An overcrowded city with endless traffic jams, chaotic crowds, rundown buildings, old…

    Merzak Allouache / Algeria, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Roqia

    Fall Grants 2022 - Production Stage

    In 1993, after a car crash leaves Ahmed with amnesia, he returns to his village, where not…

    Yanis Koussim / Algeria, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Rumors

    Spring Grant 2011 - Production Stage

    Souad and her neighbours’ hearts go out to the people who live around the block, victims of the…

    Azza El-Hassan / Jordan, Qatar / Short Narrative

  • Saffron's Land

    Fall Grants 2017 - Development Stage

    In the Atlas Mountains lies Safrana, an isolated village that was repeatedly attacked by the Fr…

    Yassine El Idrissi / Morocco, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Sahaab

    Spring Grant 2015 - Production Stage

    Following his brother’s death, Nasser and his friend Sanad decide to participate in a falcon ra…

    Khalifa Abdullah Al Muraikhi / Qatar / Feature Narrative