Film Funding

  • Dead Dog

    Fall Grants 2017 - Production Stage

    Aida, a 47-year-old woman living in Beirut, learns that Walid, her husband who lives and works…

    Sarah Francis / Lebanon, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Dear Son

    Fall Grants 2020 - Production Stage

    Between the vows imposed by the monastic life and the maternity feeling, a nun finds herself fa…

    Wassim Geagea / Lebanon, Qatar / Short Narrative

  • Dede

    Spring Grant 2014 - Production Stage

    Dina lives in a remote village high in the Georgian mountains, where traditions have remained t…

    Mariam Khatchvani / Georgia, Ireland, Netherlands, Croatia, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Diamond Island

    Spring Grants 2016 -

    Diamond Island is a symbol of Cambodia’s future, a sprawling, ultra-modern paradise for the ric…

    Davy Chou / Cambodia, France, Germany, Thailand, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Die Welt

    Fall Grant 2012 - Post-Production Stage

    'Die Welt' is an audacious hybrid of fiction and documentary, showing contemporary Tunisia shor…

    Karim Alexander Pitstra / Tunisia, Netherlands, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Dirty, Difficult, Dangerous

    Spring Grants 2019 - Production Stage

    Roaming the streets of Beirut searching for metal objects to be recycled, Ahmed, a Syrian refug…

    Wissam Charaf / France, Lebanon, Germany, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Disappearance

    Spring Grants 2017 -

    In an Iranian culture that operates within strict social mores, Sara, a university student, and…

    Ali Asgari / Iran, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Divine Wind

    Fall Grants 2017 -

    Nour and Amine don’t know each other. They meet in a house, near the city of Timimoun, in the A…

    Merzak Allouache / Algeria, France, Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Divines

    Fall Grant 2012 - Development Stage

    In a ghetto where trafficking and religion run side by side, Dounia is eager for power and succ…

    Houda Benyamina / Morocco, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Divines

    Fall Grant 2015 - Post-Production Stage

    In a ghetto where trafficking and religion run side by side, Dounia is eager for power and succ…

    Houda Benyamina / Morocco, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • The Dog's Children

    Fall Grants 2016 - Post-Production Stage

    In Jeddah during the economically transformative year of 1973, a rabid neighbourhood dog cataly…

    Layan Abdul Shakoor / Saudi Arabia, Qatar / Short Narrative

  • Dogs

    Spring Grants 2016 -

    Young Roman gets a whole lot more than he bargained for when he inherits a large tract of land…

    Bogdan Florian Mirica / Romania, France, Bulgaria, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • The Dream Betrayed Me

    Fall Grants 2023 - Production Stage

    Qamichli, Syria, 2004. Mesto, a 17-year-old boy, has but one dream—to join his city's football…

    Mohammad Alchikho "Shaikhow" / Syria, France, Belgium, Germany, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Dyouf

    Spring Grants 2023 - Development Stage

    After he is expelled from film school, Shadi moves back in with his parents in their Bedouin vi…

    Saleh Saadi / Palestine, Qatar / TV Series

  • Dégradé

    Fall Grant 2014 - Production Stage

    A hot summer's day in the Gaza Strip. Today the electricity is on. Christine’s beauty salon is…

    Arab Nasser, Tarzan Nasser / Palestine, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Déserts

    Fall Grants 2022 - Post-Production Stage

    Set in the vast, unforgiving landscapes of southern Morocco, ‘Déserts’ tells the tale of two pe…

    Faouzi Bensaïdi / Morocco, France, Germany, Belgium, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • East of Noon

    Spring Grants 2023 - Post-Production Stage

    East of Noon is a satire on the inner workings of an ailing autocracy and its inherent vulnerab…

    Hala Elkoussy / Netherlands, Egypt, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • El Bastardiya (Once Upon A Time In Tripoli)

    Fall Grants 2022 - Development Stage

    Murad, a young jobless engineer, works instead as a salesman. His father, a truck driver for an…

    Abdullah Al-Ghaly / Libya, Egypt, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • El Gran Movimiento

    Fall Grants 2020 - Post-Production Stage

    After a seven-day walk with his companions, young Elder arrives in the big city seeking to be r…

    Kiro Russo / Bolivia, France, Switzerland, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Everything That Has a Future

    Spring Grant 2015 - Development Stage

    Cairo, June 2015, 6:00 AM. An explosion shatters a window, knocking Lola, a 40-year old-Egyptia…

    Laila Hotait Salas / Lebanon, Spain, Qatar / Feature Narrative