Film Funding

  • Notes on Displacement

    Fall Grants 2017 - Production Stage

    The news is full of images of overcrowded boats and vast tent camps. But how much do we really…

    Khaled Jarrar / Palestine, Germany, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • Out of Place

    Fall Grants 2020 - Development Stage

    Mohammed, a chubby adolescent, is dancing the Dabke with his teenage friends in the cultural ce…

    Mohammed Al-Madjalawi / Sweden, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • Pacific Club

    Fall Grants 2021 - Production Stage

    La Défense, the 1980s. Paris’ business district is booming—in the day, men and women come to wo…

    Valentin Noujaïm / France, Qatar / Short Documentary

  • Paris the White

    Spring Grant 2015 -

    Aicha married Nour in 1962, the year of Algerian independence. Later, Nour went to work in Fran…

    Lidia Terki / Algeria, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • The People

    Fall Grants 2019 - Production Stage

    Mahfod Lakroune, Ahcen Djouzi and Amir Bensaid from the former troupe “Action Culturelle des Tr…

    Rahma Benhamou El Madani / Algeria, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • Playground Chronicles

    Fall Grant 2011 - Production Stage

    Brahim and his family are of Moroccan descent, and live on the grounds of a crane construction…

    Brahim Fritah / France, Qatar, Morocco / Feature Narrative

  • Queen of the Hoggar (working title)

    Spring Grant 2015 - Development Stage

    Kella, a young princess, and her elder sister are forced to leave their home because of war. Th…

    Muhannad Lamin / Libya, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Red Olive Tree

    Fall Grant 2011 - Development Stage

    The Belmakis, an upper-middle-class family in France, appear to lead a trouble-free life; all,…

    Karim Bensalah / Algeria, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Republic of Silence

    Fall Grants 2016 - Production Stage

    They grew up in the lands of dictators and surveillance, where images are censored, photos are…

    Diana El Jeiroudi / Syria, Germany, France, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • 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

  • Seven Mountains and Seven Seas

    Spring Grants 2022 - Production Stage

    Tamar, an old man, lies sick in bed in his neat European apartment. He struggles to liberate hi…

    Noel Keserwany / France, Lebanon, Qatar / Short Narrative

  • Standstill

    Fall Grant 2011 - Production Stage

    Arihote is a Kanienkehaka photographer whose life is at a standstill. When he witnesses the mur…

    Majdi El-Omari / Canada, Palestine, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Still Recording

    Fall Grants 2016 -

    Two young artists, Saeed Al Batal and Ghiath Ayoub become embroiled in the events of the besieg…

    Saeed Al Batal, Ghiath Ayoub / Syria, Lebanon, France, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • Terra Firma

    Fall Grant 2013 - Production Stage

    In a small commercial harbour in the south of France, two Moroccan sailors are watching over fe…

    Laurent Aït Benalla / Morocco, France, United Arab Emirates, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • The Body Of René

    Spring Grants 2019 - Development Stage

    'The Body of René' is a love story interrupted by war and a black body snatched from the memory…

    Dani Abo Louh / France, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • The Voice Of The Wild

    Fall Grants 2019 - Development Stage

    In the heart of the Sahara live Abreybone and his pals Kiki, Akalaï, Diara, Japonais, and Abin-…

    Dalel Ziour / Algeria, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • The Woodman

    Spring Grants 2019 - Post-Production Stage

    A surreal feature film with a thriller theme, and a life-sized wooden dummy as the protagonist,…

    Koutaiba Al-Janabi / Iraq, United Kingdom, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • This Rain Will Never Stop

    Fall Grants 2019 -

    ‘This Rain Will Never Stop’ takes audiences on a powerful, visually arresting journey through h…

    Alina Gorlova / Ukraine, Latvia, Germany, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • Tiny Souls

    Spring Grants 2017 - Post-Production Stage

    Dina Naser / Jordan, France, Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • Tunis-Djerba

    Spring Grants 2021 - Development Stage

    Since her father’s death, Alyssa (19) has become the caretaker of her depressed mother and litt…

    Amel Guellaty / Tunisia, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative