Film Funding

  • Perhaps What I Fear Does Not Exist

    Spring Grants 2019 -

    “I can’t believe this is happening”, I said to myself when my father’s body failed unexpectedly…

    Corine Shawi / Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • Places Of The Soul

    Fall Grant 2015 - Production Stage

    The story of ‘Places Of The Soul’ follows Qatari filmmaker, Hamida on a journey to Antarctica w…

    Hamida Issa / Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • Places of The Soul

    Fall Grants 2018 - Post-Production Stage

    The story of ‘Places Of The Soul’ begins in Ushuaia, Argentina and follows an environmental exp…

    Hamida Issa / Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • Plastic Flowers‏

    Spring Grants 2018 - Production Stage

    A documentary about the experience of enforced disappearance in the prisons of ISIS told throug…

    Amer Mattar / Syria, Germany, Sweden, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • Plot 35

    Fall Grants 2016 -

    Plot 35 is a place that was never mentioned in my family; it is where my elder sister, who died…

    Eric Caravaca / France, Germany, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • Polaris

    Spring Grants 2022 - Post-Production Stage

    Hayat, an expert sailor in the Arctic, navigates far from humans and her family’s past in Franc…

    Ainara Vera / France, Greenland, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • Qatar Stars

    Spring Grants 2022 - Post-Production Stage

    'Qatar Stars' is the first feature documentary focused on girls in Qatar. It follows “The Olymp…

    Danielle Beverly / Qatar, United States of America / Feature Documentary

  • R21 aka RESTORING SOLIDARITY

    Spring Grants 2021 - Post-Production Stage

    After screening his latest film 'Off Frame AKA Revolution Until Victory' in Tokyo, the film dir…

    Mohanad Yaqubi / Palestine, Belgium, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • Railway Men

    Spring Grants 2017 -

    Conducting the trains of Line #1, the country's deadliest, five employees struggle with the dar…

    Erige Sehiri / Tunisia, France, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • Railway Men

    Spring Grant 2013 -

    Conducting the trains of Line #1, the country’s deadliest, five employees struggle with the dar…

    Erige Sehiri / Tunisia, France, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • Republic of Silence

    Fall Grants 2016 - Production Stage

    They grew up in the lands of dictators and surveillance, where images are censored, photos are…

    Diana El Jeiroudi / Syria, Germany, France, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • The Revolution

    Fall Grants 2023 - Post-Production Stage

    On 1 February 2021, a military coup in Myanmar overthrew the democratically elected government.…

    Min Min Hein / Myanmar, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • A Rifle and a Bag

    Fall Grants 2019 -

    Somi and her husband Sukhram met and fell in love while fighting in the Naxalite commando, the…

    Cristina Hanes, Arya Rothe, Isabella Rinaldi / India, Romania, Italy, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • The Rise of the Gulf / Beyond Black Gold

    Spring Grant 2013 - Production Stage

    Two films to tell the incredible tale of the metamorphosis of the Gulf’s emirates over the cour…

    Frédéric Compain / France, Qatar, Kuwait / Feature Documentary

  • Rising up at Night

    Spring Grants 2023 - Post-Production Stage

    Kinshasa, the capital city of 17 million people, is plunged into darkness and insecurity as its…

    Nelson Makengo / Congo, Democratic Republic of the, Belgium, Germany, Burkina Faso, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • Roshmia

    Spring Grant 2014 - Post-Production Stage

    Since 1956, when he became a refugee from downtown Haifa’s Wadi Alsaleeb neighbourhood, 80-year…

    Salim Abu Jabal / Palestine, United Arab Emirates, Lebanon, Syria, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • Rouge Parole

    Fall Grant 2011 - Post-Production Stage

    The Arab Spring erupted in a country where few would have expected, starting a political earthq…

    Elyes Baccar / Tunisia, Switzerland, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • Salaam Plenty

    Spring Grant 2012 - Development Stage

    'Salaam Plenty' is about the memory and erasure of the presence of Afghan cameleers in Australi…

    Samira (Yasmine) Kassari / Morocco, Australia, Belgium, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • Samir in the Dust

    Fall Grant 2013 - Production Stage

    I always liked smugglers because they are playing with borders. But, I soon realized that the o…

    Mohamed Ouzine / Algeria, France, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • Scenes from a Revolt Sustained

    Spring Grant 2011 - Production Stage

    Examining the culture and history of Tunisia and how it has been mediated or ignored by the Wes…

    Kays Mejri, Matt Peterson / France, Tunisia, United States of America, Qatar / Feature Documentary