Film Funding

  • 143 Sahara Street

    Spring Grants 2018 - Development Stage

    Malika lives alone in the middle of the desert. There she runs a small restaurant serving two d…

    Hassen Ferhani / Algeria, France, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • 143 Sahara Street

    Spring Grants 2019 - Post-Production Stage

    In her little restaurant in the middle of the Algerian desert, a woman writes her history. Ther…

    Hassen Ferhani / Algeria, France, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • 2G

    Fall Grants 2023 - Post-Production Stage

    Agadez, 2021. Following the ban on unlawful migrant transportation by the Niger government, fou…

    Karim Sayad / Algeria, Switzerland, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • 5 Seasons of Revolution

    Fall Grants 2017 - Post-Production Stage

    An aspiring video journalist in her 20s finds herself already facing self-reckoning. Born in Da…

    Lina / Syria, Germany, Norway, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • Abo Zaabal 1989

    Fall Grants 2023 - Post-Production Stage

    In 1989, Mahmoud Mortada, Bassams father, was arrested, imprisoned and tortured at the infamous…

    Bassam Mortada / Egypt, Germany, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • After a Revolution

    Spring Grants 2019 -

    Filmed over six years, ‘After A Revolution’ is the challenging story of a brother and sister st…

    Giovanni Buccomino / Italy, United Kingdom, Libya, United States of America, Canada, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • After the Bridge

    Spring Grants 2022 - Post-Production Stage

    Valeria Collina, an Italian woman who converted to Islam, returned to live in Italy in the summ…

    Davide Rizzo, Marzia Toscano / Italy, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • All That Passes By Through A Window That Doesn't Open

    Fall Grant 2014 - Post-Production Stage

    Amid the attempt to revive a ‘new Silk Road’ between Europe and Asia, Azerbaijani men labour to…

    Martin DiCicco / United States of America, Georgia, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • Amal

    Spring Grants 2017 -

    Amal, an angry teenager, comes of age in a post-revolution Egypt that is undergoing tremendous…

    Mohamed Siam / Egypt, Lebanon, France, Germany, Denmark, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • Amateurs, Stars and Extras, or the Labor of Love

    Fall Grant 2012 -

    Amateurs, Stars and Extras or the labor of love, looks at the invisible work of care through di…

    Marwa Arsanios / Egypt, Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • Amussu

    Fall Grants 2018 -

    Imider, southeastern Morocco. A rapacious silver mine has syphoned aquifer water for decades, d…

    Nadir Bouhmouch / Morocco, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • Another Spring

    Fall Grants 2021 - Post-Production Stage

    Smallpox is the deadliest disease in human history, and its eradication is one of the greatest…

    Mladen Kovacevic / Serbia, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • As I Want

    Fall Grants 2020 - Post-Production Stage

    Cairo, January 25, 2013, the second anniversary of the revolution, under then-president Mohamed…

    Samaher Alqadi / Palestine, Norway, France, Germany, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • Asphalt

    Spring Grant 2011 - Development Stage

    'Asphalt' delves into the lives of two truck drivers on the road, crossing borders, towns and c…

    Ali Hammoud / Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • Atlantide

    Spring Grants 2020 - Post-Production Stage

    In Venice between the gondolas, canals and palaces, tourists pour in as residents head out. Loc…

    Yuri Ancarani / Italy, France, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • Ayouni

    Fall Grants 2017 - Production Stage

    Bassel was a successful open source developer and hacker in Damascus. Paolo was a well-known pr…

    Yasmin Fedda / Lebanon, United Kingdom, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • Batata

    Spring Grant 2015 -

    Shot over an unparalleled ten years, the latest film by Lebanese-Syrian director Noura Kevorkia…

    Noura Kevorkian / Lebanon, Canada, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • Before the Dying of the Light

    Spring Grant 2013 - Production Stage

    The seventies were the last Moroccan period in which struggles and dreams for change were a rea…

    Abdelali Essafi / Morocco, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • Behind Closed Doors

    Fall Grant 2015 - Development Stage

    ‘Behind Closed Doors’ is a portrait of a farming family living in one of the most marginalised…

    Yakout Elhababi / Morocco, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • Behind Closed Doors

    Spring Grants 2022 - Post-Production Stage

    'Behind Closed Doors' is a portrait of a farming family living in the most marginalized region…

    Yakout Elhababi / Morocco, Qatar / Feature Documentary