Film Funding

  • Motherhood

    Spring Grants 2019 - Production Stage

    Aicha (45), a Tunisian mother gifted with prophetic dreams, lives in the isolated north of Tuni…

    Meryam Joobeur / Tunisia, Canada, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Mountain

    Fall Grant 2013 - Production Stage

    Day breaks on the eighth floor in a suburban neighbourhood of Lisbon and 14-year-old David’s gr…

    João Salaviza / Portugal, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Musk

    Fall Grants 2016 - Production Stage

    After giving up a promising career in museum management to attend to his ailing father, Ahmed s…

    Humaid Alsuwaidi / United Arab Emirates, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • My Father's House

    Fall Grants 2020 - Production Stage

    In 2012, two weeks after ‘A World Not Ours’ was completed, my father died at the age of 59. He…

    Mahdi Fleifel / Denmark, United Kingdom, Palestine, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • My Little One

    Spring Grants 2018 - Production Stage

    Sarah, a 35-year-old Belgian woman of Moroccan descent, longs to become a mother and start a fa…

    Kadija Saidi Leclere / Morocco, Belgium, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • My Love Awaits Me by the Sea

    Fall Grant 2011 - Production Stage

    ‘My Love Awaits Me by the Sea’ is a poetic documentary that narrates the story of its director,…

    Mais Darwazah / Jordan, Palestine, Qatar, Germany / Feature Documentary

  • My Uncle the "Terrorist"

    Spring Grant 2013 - Production Stage

    When I was a child, there was a portrait of a man in our house. I never knew who he was; nobody…

    Elias Moubarak / Lebanon, Germany, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • Night

    Spring Grants 2017 - Production Stage

    While searching for sleepless souls, a storyteller finds a woman standing in front of her door,…

    Ahmad Saleh / Palestine, Jordan, Germany, Qatar / Short Narrative

  • The Night and the Kid

    Fall Grant 2012 - Production Stage

    The dim light of night covers a stony desert in Algeria. By the light of the moon, Faouzi, IIye…

    David Yon / France, Qatar, Morocco / Feature Documentary

  • Northern Wind

    Fall Grant 2014 - Production Stage

    Marcel, a worker in a French shoe factory, lives a simple life between family, fishing and the…

    Walid Mattar / Tunisia, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • 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

  • Nya

    Fall Grants 2022 - Production Stage

    Suburbs of Algiers, 1994. Anya lives a seven-year-old child’s life, little aware of the tension…

    Imène Ayadi / Algeria, France, Qatar / Short Narrative

  • Of Sheep and Men

    Fall Grant 2015 - Production Stage

    Bab el Oued, Algiers, 2016. Men and sheep. Sixteen-year-old Habib dreams of becoming a veterina…

    Karim Sayad / Algeria, Switzerland, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • Omar La Fraise

    Fall Grants 2019 - Production Stage

    Omar Zerrouki, better known by his street name Omar la Fraise, is an old school gangster. Force…

    Elias Belkeddar / Algeria, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • On Trials

    Spring Grants 2016 - Production Stage

    The enacted. The robe. The absurd. Failed precedents. ‘On Trials’ is a film about realms of law…

    Jasmina Metwaly, Philip Rizk / Egypt, Qatar / Feature Experimental or Essay

  • On the Dock

    Fall Grants 2020 - Production Stage

    Aziz, a retired immigrant, learns that a new law facilitates his permanent return home without…

    Yassine Ouahrani / France, Morocco, Qatar / Short Narrative

  • One of Them

    Spring Grant 2015 - Production Stage

    During Friday prayers, Khalid notices that the khutbah does not start as early as usual. His fr…

    Fahad Al Kuwari / Qatar / Short Narrative

  • The Other Side of Everything

    Spring Grant 2014 - Production Stage

    A door locked for 70 years in a house haunted by history. The story of an apartment in Belgrade…

    Mila Turajlic / Serbia, France, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • Out on the Streets

    Spring Grant 2013 - Production Stage

    Nine men gather for a workshop on a rooftop. There they perform confrontations of everyday life…

    Jasmina Metwaly, Philip Rizk / Egypt, 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