Film Funding

  • The Gravedigger's Wife

    Spring Grants 2020 -

    Guled and Nasra are a loving couple living in the outskirts of Djibouti city with their teenage…

    Khadar Ayderus Ahmed / Finland, Somalia, France, Germany, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Green Eyes

    Spring Grants 2016 - Production Stage

    A blue-eyed coma patient swims from the end of a pier to the deepest point of the ocean of hims…

    Abdullah Al-Mulla / Qatar / Short Narrative

  • Grey Glow

    Spring Grants 2022 - Production Stage

    Nayla, 55, holds a supervising position at a factory in a Beirut suburb. She struggles to ensur…

    Michèle Tyan / Lebanon, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Gubgub

    Spring Grants 2018 -

    After securing her first catch of the day while crab-hunting with her father and brother, brigh…

    Nouf Al Sulaiti / Qatar / Short Narrative

  • HEAdbANG Lullaby

    Spring Grants 2016 -

    Casablanca, June 11, 1986 – the day of the World Cup. After yet another blunder, embittered cop…

    Hicham Lasri / Morocco, France, Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • HOPE

    Fall Grants 2019 - Production Stage

    Facing challenges from life and human pollution, Aqua sets off on a life-changing journey to hi…

    Abdulla Al Jananhi / Indonesia, Qatar / Short Narrative

  • Habibi and I in Eden

    Spring Grants 2022 - Production Stage

    On a foggy dark night where Sara’s family believes she is at her friend’s baby reception, and w…

    Sara Mesfer / Saudi Arabia, Qatar / Short Narrative

  • Haifa Street

    Fall Grant 2015 -

    Haifa Street, one of the most dangerous locations during the civil war in Baghdad, in 2006. Tar…

    Mohanad Hayal / Iraq, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Hamlet From the Slums

    Fall Grants 2021 - Production Stage

    Ahmed, an 18-year-old from a slum in Cairo, buries his father—the king of horse-driven carriage…

    Ahmed Fawzi Saleh / Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Haneen

    Spring Grant 2011 - Production Stage

    Haneen, a woman in her mid-60s, lives alone in a Palestinian city, estranged from her husband a…

    Ossama Bawardi / Palestine, Jordan, Qatar / Short Narrative

  • Happy Holidays

    Fall Grants 2018 - Production Stage

    A student's involvement in a minor accident sets off a chain reaction of events that leads to t…

    Scandar Copti / Palestine, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Harka

    Spring Grants 2022 - Post-Production Stage

    Tunisia, North Africa. Ali, a young man in his twenties, makes a precarious living selling cont…

    Lotfy Nathan / France, Tunisia, Luxembourg, Belgium, Germany, United States of America, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Hawi

    Fall Grant 2010 - Post-Production Stage

    Shot in Alexandria using non-professional actors and a volunteer crew, Ibrahim El Batout's thir…

    Ibrahim El Batout / Egypt, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • The Healer

    Fall Grants 2017 -

    16-year old teenager Abdou lives on the outskirts of Khouribga, a mining town exploiting phosph…

    Mohamed Zineddaine / Morocco, Italy, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Heim

    Spring Grants 2019 - Development Stage

    ‘Heim’ takes place in a refugee centre in Berlin-Tempelhof airport, which though technically ou…

    Liwaa Yazaji, Mohammad Abou Laban / Lebanon, Qatar / TV Series

  • History of Fear

    Fall Grant 2013 - Post-Production Stage

    Pola spends his days trimming grass and taking care of a football court in a gated community in…

    Benjamin Naishtat / Argentina, Uruguay, Germany, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Honey Cigar

    Spring Grant 2013 - Development Stage

    Paris, 1993—Selma, 17, lives in a bourgeois and secular Berber family in the suburbs. When she…

    Kamir Aïnouz / Algeria, France, Belgium, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Hope

    Fall Grants 2017 -

    Hévi and Walat, a Kurdish-Syrian refugee couple in their thirties meet a human trafficker. They…

    Mohammad Shaikhow / Syria, Iraq, France, Qatar / Short Narrative

  • Hope

    Spring Grants 2019 - Development Stage

    The short film ‘Hope’ is about a newborn baby sea turtle named Aqua, born with a disability of…

    Abdulla Al Jananhi / Qatar / Short Narrative

  • Hounds

    Spring Grants 2020 - Production Stage

    In the suburbs of Casablanca, Hassan and Issam, father and son, live from day to day by carryin…

    Kamal Lazraq / France, Morocco, Belgium, Qatar / Feature Narrative