Film Funding

  • Stronger than a Bullet

    Fall Grant 2014 - Production Stage

    Since the Islamic Revolution of 1979, war propaganda has been Iran’s largest industry. In the n…

    Maryam Ebrahimi / Iran, Sweden, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • Suspended Wives

    Fall Grants 2017 - Production Stage

    After waiting for many years, Ghita, Latifa and Karima decide to turn to the courts in order to…

    Merieme Addou / Morocco, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • Talking About Trees

    Fall Grants 2018 -

    Ibrahim, Suleiman, Manar and Altayeb are founding members of the ‘Sudanese Film Group’. Friends…

    Suhaib Gasmelbari / France, Sudan, Germany, Chad, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • Tangier Stories

    Fall Grant 2015 - Development Stage

    In contemporary Morocco, Hayat brings Soussen, her 12-year-old daughter, from their poor villag…

    Fyzal Boulifa / France, Morocco, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Tariq

    Spring Grant 2012 - Production Stage

    A story of a relationship between a teenager and his mother. Tariq decides to test his manhood…

    Alaa Abdel Razek Mosbah / Egypt, Qatar / Short Narrative

  • The Teacher

    Spring Grants 2021 - Production Stage

    Basem El-Saleh, a Palestinian school teacher, pieces his life together after the loss of his so…

    Farah Nabulsi / Palestine, United Kingdom, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • 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 Alleys

    Fall Grants 2018 - Production, Production, Production Stage

    In a claustrophobic East Amman neighbourhood, where life is dictated by gossip and violence, Al…

    Bassel Ghandour / Jordan, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • The Forbidden Strings

    Fall Grants 2018 - Post-Production Stage

    During the day, they are labourers and do what most Afghan refugees do in Iran, which is carpen…

    Hasan Noori / Afghanistan, Iran, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • The Return Of The Jerboas

    Fall Grants 2019 - Development Stage

    Algeria, 2000. Hakim, a young doctor, arrives in the desert. He moves in with Ammar's family wh…

    Amira Géhanne Khalfallah / Algeria, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • They

    Fall Grant 2014 - Production Stage

    Fourteen-year-old J goes by the pronoun ‘They” and lives with their parents in the suburbs of C…

    Anahita Ghazvinizadeh / Iran, United States of America, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • The Third Hand

    Fall Grant 2012 - Production Stage

    Zineb just passed her baccalaureate. Like all the young girls in the area, she wants to study i…

    Hicham Elladdaqi / Morocco, France, Qatar / Short Narrative

  • This Haunting Memory That Is Not My Own

    Fall Grants 2018 - Production Stage

    A family finds itself violently ripped apart from their native home and thrown into the sea, in…

    Panos Aprahamian / Lebanon, Germany, Qatar / Short Experimental or Essay

  • This Is Congo

    Spring Grants 2016 -

    'This Is Congo’ is an unblinking, unfiltered look into one of the world’s longest-standing ongo…

    Daniel McCabe / United States of America, Congo, Democratic Republic of the, Canada, United Kingdom, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • 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

  • To All Naked Men

    Fall Grant 2014 - Production Stage

    The war in Syria is drawing to an end, and the first reliable election stands on the ruins of t…

    Bassam Chekhes / Syria, Netherlands, Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • To Live To Sing

    Spring Grants 2019 -

    Zhao Li is the manager of a small Sichuan Opera troupe of 11 members living and performing toge…

    Johnny Ma / China, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • 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

  • Under Construction

    Fall Grants 2020 - Production Stage

    Tarek, a 30-year-old Syrian, joins a construction site set in the middle of a forest. Immediate…

    Nadim Tabet / Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Underdown

    Fall Grants 2017 -

    Moving to Beirut’s anarchic rhythm, ‘Underdown’ follows the struggles of a Palestinian cab driv…

    Sarah Kaskas / Lebanon, Germany, Qatar / Feature Documentary