Film Funding

  • Across the Sea

    Spring Grants 2023 - Production Stage

    Nour, 27, has immigrated illegally to Marseille. With his friends, he lives a marginal and fest…

    Saïd Hamich Benlarbi / Morocco, France, Belgium, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Aisha Can’t Fly Away

    Spring Grants 2023 - Production Stage

    Aisha, a 26-year-old Somali woman, works as a caregiver for elderly patients. She lives in a ne…

    Morad Mostafa / Egypt, Tunisia, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Autumn

    Spring Grants 2023 - Production Stage

    'Autumn' is a conceptual romantic narrative of the captivity of the intellectual class in the t…

    Aisha Al-Jaidah, Adnan Nassari / Qatar, Iran / Short Narrative

  • Aïcha

    Spring Grants 2023 - Production Stage

    Twenty-eight-year-old Aya is an ordinary young woman. She lives in Tozeur, a city in southern T…

    Mehdi M. Barsaoui / Tunisia, France, Italy, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Back to Alexandria

    Spring Grants 2023 - Post-Production Stage

    After twenty years of absence, Sue must return to her native Egypt to see her mother, Fairouz,…

    Tamer Ruggli / Switzerland, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Banel & Adama

    Spring Grants 2023 - Post-Production Stage

    Banel and Adama are fiercely in love. The young married couple lives in a remote village in nor…

    Ramata-Toulaye Sy / France, Senegal, Mali, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • City of Wind

    Spring Grants 2023 - Post-Production Stage

    Ze is a timid 17-year-old shaman. He studies hard at school to succeed in the cold, callous soc…

    Lkhagvadulam Purev-Ochir / France, Mongolia, Portugal, Netherlands, Germany, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • The Day I Smoked a Cigarette with My Father

    Spring Grants 2023 - Production Stage

    Cairo, 1964. Alaa, a 12-year-old boy, and his three younger siblings hear shouting from the str…

    Sameh Alaa / Egypt, France, Qatar / Short Narrative

  • Dyouf

    Spring Grants 2023 - Development Stage

    After he is expelled from film school, Shadi moves back in with his parents in their Bedouin vi…

    Saleh Saadi / Palestine, Qatar / TV Series

  • East of Noon

    Spring Grants 2023 - Post-Production Stage

    In the ruins of an industrial complex outside time, Shawky (70), an eccentric showman, rules wi…

    Hala Elkoussy / Netherlands, Egypt, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Excursion

    Spring Grants 2023 - Post-Production Stage

    IMAN (15) and her class are planning their end of primary school excursion. While their parents…

    Una Gunjak / Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Serbia, France, Norway, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • The Experiment

    Spring Grants 2023 - Production Stage

    Rashid, a 30-year-old researcher, is placed in a prison to conduct his final project. His missi…

    Abdulla Alhor / Qatar / Short Narrative

  • The House That My Mother Built

    Spring Grants 2023 - Production Stage

    While the Sudanese revolution’s defeats and victories were mainly captured and seen from outsid…

    Alyaa Musa / Sudan, Qatar / Web Series

  • I Am One of Them

    Spring Grants 2023 - Production Stage

    At the lake of a small town, Grzegorz makes a living by guiding tourist cruises on his boat, on…

    Nadim Suleiman / Poland, Syria, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • Kohl & Cardamom

    Spring Grants 2023 - Development Stage

    In a small Egyptian town in the late 1980s, Abdullah (14 years old) leads what seems to be a ca…

    Fady Atallah / Egypt, Sweden, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • The Language of Fire

    Spring Grants 2023 - Post-Production Stage

    It was night inside of me. Somewhere in the world, my being was torn in two. One was searching…

    Tarek Sami / Algeria, France, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • Lost Country

    Spring Grants 2023 - Post-Production Stage

    Serbia, 1996. During the student demonstrations against Milosević’s regime, 15-year-old Stefan…

    Vladimir Perišić / France, Serbia, Luxembourg, Croatia, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • L’mina

    Spring Grants 2023 - Production Stage

    The film is set in Jerada, a former mining town in northeast Morocco that experienced its golde…

    Randa Maroufi / France, Morocco, Italy, United Arab Emirates, Qatar / Short Experimental or Essay

  • No Reaching Hand

    Spring Grants 2023 - Development Stage

    In a mysterious realm, disconnected from any specific time and place, we delve into Mariam's jo…

    Batla Aldosari / Qatar / Short Narrative

  • Ozogoche

    Spring Grants 2023 - Post-Production Stage

    The Cuviví is the only bird that inexplicably commits suicide. While most of the migrating huma…

    Joe Houlberg Silva / Ecuador, Belgium, Qatar / Feature Documentary