Film Funding

  • Deserts

    Fall Grants 2022 - Post-Production Stage

    Longtime friends, Mehdi and Hamid, work for a collection agency. They crisscross the villages o…

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

  • Eldorado, The Taste Of The South

    Fall Grants 2023 - Production Stage

    A group of migrants from sub-Saharan Africa arrives to the north of Morocco in order to cross t…

    Alaa Eddine Aljem / Morocco, France, Italy, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Experimental Summer

    Spring Grants 2016 -

    Both Mahmoud and Zeinab join in the search for the original version of an Egyptian film that wa…

    Mahmoud Lotfy / Egypt, Qatar / Feature Experimental or Essay

  • Halaa'

    Spring Grants 2023 - Development Stage

    An anthology series of Middle Eastern crime stories exploring the complex moral ironies surroun…

    Amal Al-Muftah / Lebanon, Jordan, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Morocco, Algeria, Qatar / TV Series

  • The Poster

    Fall Grants 2016 - Production Stage

    A poster appears on the walls of the Palestinian village of Reith, accusing the local women of…

    Suha Arraf / Palestine, France, Germany, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • 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

  • A Quarter to Thursday in Algiers

    Spring Grants 2023 - Production Stage

    Goussam is pregnant, she has to have a clandestine abortion. She is supposed to be helped by he…

    Sofia Djama / Algeria, France, Belgium / Feature Narrative

  • Wajib

    Spring Grants 2017 -

    Shadi returns to his hometown to help his father hand-deliver his sister’s wedding invitations.…

    Annemarie Jacir / Palestine, France, Colombia, Germany, United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Norway / Feature Narrative

  • What Brings You Here?

    Spring Grants 2022 - Development Stage

    Rashid finds himself lost in the desert among the dunes, where he finds a strange object buried…

    Abdulla Alemadi / Qatar / Short Narrative

  • aKasha

    Fall Grants 2016 - Production Stage

    Adnan is a revolutionary war hero whose love for fighting and his AK-47 are rivalled only by hi…

    hajooj kuka / Sudan, South Africa, Germany, Qatar / Feature Narrative