Film Funding

  • 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

  • A House in Jerusalem

    Spring Grants 2016 - Development Stage

    Young Rebecca is forced to move with her father from the UK to Jerusalem, in the hopes that a n…

    Muayad Alayan / Palestine, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Houston, We Have a Problem!

    Spring Grant 2015 - Post-Production Stage

    In 1948, a space programme was established in Yugoslavia, based on the diaries and technical pl…

    Žiga Virc / Slovenia, Germany, Croatia, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • How The Sea Became Salty

    Spring Grants 2022 - Production Stage

    Yara is abandoning her life and leaving Egypt for good. She refuses her friend's Amr offer to d…

    Maysoon El-Massry / Egypt, Germany, Qatar / Short Narrative

  • Hunting Season

    Spring Grant 2014 - Production Stage

    After his mother dies, 17-year-old Nahuel is shipped from Buenos Aires to the south of Argentin…

    Natalia Garagiola / Argentina, France, Germany, United States of America, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • I Can Hear Your Voice... Still

    Fall Grants 2022 - Production Stage

    One night in a small seaside town in Egypt the sound of a whale keeps coming from the sea but n…

    Sameh Alaa / Egypt / Feature Narrative

  • I Dreamt of Empire

    Spring Grants 2016 - Production Stage

    Cairo, 1980. Musa, a brilliant Egyptian professor, cannot move past the grief of losing his onl…

    Kasem Kharsa / Egypt, Germany, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • I Promise You Paradise

    Spring Grants 2022 - Production Stage

    Following a violent incident; Eissa a 17 years old illegal African migrant in Egypt is in a que…

    Morad Mostafa / Egypt, France, Qatar / Short Narrative

  • I Wished For Solitude

    Fall Grants 2021 - Development Stage

    A man is born with a rare illness that causes him to slowly lose his face throughout his life a…

    Hamad Alfayhani / Qatar / Short Narrative