Film Funding

  • Layla In Dreamland

    Spring Grants 2022 - Production Stage

    Layla is a 60-year-old refugee relocated to the seaside town of Margate with her undocumented g…

    Celine Cotran / United Kingdom, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Lemon Hart

    Spring Grants 2018 - Production Stage

    In a story of how courage transcends fear, a young American girl living in Le Var, France refle…

    Sara Al-Thani / Qatar, France / Short Narrative

  • Little Man

    Spring Grants 2024 - Production Stage

    On the edges of the Sahara Desert, in a small Moroccan village afflicted by drought, six-year-o…

    Hajri Gachouch / France, Qatar / Short Narrative

  • Liyana

    Spring Grant 2015 - Production Stage

    Liyana is a young, fictional girl created by several young orphans in Swaziland, where the scou…

    Aaron Kopp, Amanda Kopp / Swaziland, Qatar, United States of America / Feature Documentary

  • Locals. Qatar.

    Fall Grants 2020 - Production Stage

    Locals of all classes, professions, genders, and backgrounds talk about their dreams, responsib…

    Saud Al-Thani, Stephen Ochsner / Qatar / Web Series

  • Love 45

    Fall Grants 2024 - Production Stage

    Walid, an overweight Lebanese man, has been caught in a destructive spiral since teenagehood. D…

    Anas Khalaf / Syria, France, Switzerland, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • A Lover's Manifesto

    Fall Grants 2024 - Production Stage

    "‘A Lover’s Manifesto’ is a history of Beirut, spanning from its inception as a modern city in…

    Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Experimental or Essay

  • 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

  • MINKAFF

    Fall Grants 2024 - Production Stage

    "In the Iraqi desert, a group of Qatari men, including Fahad, are nearing the end of a falcon h…

    SM Al Thani / Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • MS FAIZA & DR LOVE

    Fall Grants 2024 - Production Stage

    Faiza embodies everything one might imagine of a North African mother living on a housing estat…

    Anissa Daoud / Tunisia, France, Qatar / Short Narrative

  • Made in Qatar at D’reesha Programme 1 & 4 - Kashta

    Fall Grant 2015 - Production Stage

    Out in the quiet desert, a father teaches his sons how to hunt, but a careless struggle between…

    A.J. Al Johara Al Thani / Qatar / Short Narrative

  • Made in Qatar at M7 Programme 3 - Border

    Fall Grants 2018 - Production Stage

    In an abstrusely dystopian future, a man wishes to return to his family. But navigating the com…

    Khalifa Al-Thani / Qatar / Short Narrative

  • Madmen's Fort

    Spring Grant 2014 - Production Stage

    In 1860, the Algerian Sahara is coveted by the colonial powers of the time, who dream of it as…

    Narimane Mari / Algeria, France, Greece, Germany, Switzerland, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • The Maghrebim

    Fall Grant 2011 - Production Stage

    The director returns to the roots of his family’s history, starting from footage his parents fi…

    Ivan Boccara / Morocco, France, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • A Man on Fire

    Spring Grants 2017 - Production Stage

    The story of a man who was born and raised in a modest environment and aspired to be a superher…

    Ibrahim Harb / Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • Manity

    Spring Grants 2021 - Production Stage

    On a calm sunny day, Firas, an 11-year-old boy, accompanies his father Tayseer and his father’s…

    Hussen Ibraheem / Lebanon, France, Qatar / Short Narrative

  • Mariam

    Spring Grant 2013 - Production Stage

    Ever since she attended the Hajj with her grandmother, Mariam has covered her head, but when Fr…

    Faiza Ambah / France, Qatar, Saudi Arabia / Short Narrative

  • Marie & Jolie

    Spring Grants 2024 - Production Stage

    In Tunis, three Ivorian women from different generations—a pastor, a resourceful businesswoman,…

    Erige Sehiri / France, Tunisia, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Mary

    Fall Grants 2021 - Production Stage

    'Mary' showcases a bittersweet story about the daily life of a 65-year-old woman, Mary, and her…

    Abdulaziz Khashabi, Abdulla Al-Janahi / Qatar / Short Narrative

  • Mediterranean Fever

    Fall Grants 2018 - Production Stage

    Winner of the best screenplay award in Cannes’ Un Certain Regard section last year, the darkly…

    Maha Haj / Palestine, France, Germany, Qatar, Cyprus / Feature Narrative