Film Funding

  • Just Like a Dream

    Spring Grants 2024 - Development Stage

    On August 4th, 2020, Beirut experienced one of history's largest explosions, resulting in over…

    Corine Shawi / Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • Kash Kash

    Fall Grants 2019 - Production Stage

    My hometown, Beirut, is torn apart by a corrupt political elite, anti-government protests, and…

    Lea Najjar / Lebanon, Germany, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • Khartoum

    Fall Grants 2023 - Production Stage

    Four Sudanese filmmakers mix observational documentary and innovative graphics, archives and an…

    Ibrahim Ahmad, Rawia Alhag, Anas Saeed, Timmea Ahmed / Sudan, United Kingdom, Germany, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • Khmerica

    Fall Grants 2021 - Post-Production Stage

    Sokha is a Khmer-American. The son of Cambodian refugees, he grew up in the United States. He w…

    Antoine GUIDE / France, Cambodia, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • 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

  • The Last Hillbilly

    Spring Grants 2020 - Post-Production Stage

    In the Appalachian Mountains, east of Kentucky, people feel less American than Appalachian. The…

    Thomas Jenkoe, Diane Bouzgarrou / France, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • The Last Shore

    Fall Grants 2024 - Post-Production Stage

    In January 2017, a video of a young Gambian man drowning in Venice’s Grand Canal went viral on…

    Jean-François Ravagnan / Belgium, France, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • The Lebanese Rocket Society

    Fall Grant 2011 - Post-Production Stage

    When filmmakers Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige inadvertently discovered that their native…

    Khalil Joreige, Joana Hadjithomas / Lebanon, France, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • Les Enfants Terribles

    Fall Grants 2020 - Post-Production Stage

    In Keskincik, a village situated near the Syrian border of Turkey, a young man, Mahmut wishes t…

    Ahmet Necdet Cupur / France, Germany, Turkey, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • Life After Siham

    Fall Grants 2024 - Development Stage

    "‘Life After Siham’ tells the story of Namir, a 40-year-old filmmaker, and his journey through…

    Namir Abdel Messeeh / Egypt, France, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • Listen to the Silence

    Spring Grants 2016 -

    Nine years old and almost always smiling, Luka lives in a boarding school for deaf children, wh…

    Mariam Chachia / Georgia, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • Little Palestine: Diary of a Siege

    Spring Grants 2019 -

    The district of Yarmouk in Damascus, Syria, sheltered the largest Palestinian refugee camp in t…

    Abdallah Al-Khatib / Lebanon, France, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • 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

  • Looking For the Man with the Camera

    Spring Grant 2015 -

    "Looking for the Man with the Camera" is a journey that takes the narrator from Geneva to the…

    Boutheyna Bouslama / France, Switzerland, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • Loving Wallada

    Fall Grants 2018 - Post-Production Stage

    Wallada, the only child of one of the last Umayyad caliphs, al-Mustakfi murdered in 1025, asser…

    Nacer Khemir / Tunisia, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • MY ARMENIAN PHANTOMS

    Fall Grants 2024 - Post-Production Stage

    In My Armenian Phantoms, filmmaker Tamara Stepanyan embarks on an evocative journey through the…

    Tamara Stepanyan / Lebanon, France, Armenia, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • Machtat

    Spring Grants 2019 - Development Stage

    Fatma and her two daughters Najeh and Waffeh, live in the neighbourhood of Bir Beranek in Mahdi…

    Sonia Ben Slama / Tunisia, France, Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • Machtat

    Fall Grants 2022 - Post-Production Stage

    In the small town of Mahdia, Tunisia, live Fatma and her two daughters, Najeh and Waffeh. They…

    Sonia Ben Slama / Tunisia, Lebanon, France, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • 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

  • The Man Behind the Microphone

    Fall Grant 2014 - Post-Production Stage

    Hedi Jouini is the most popular musical star in Tunisian history, known as the “Frank Sinatra o…

    Claire Belhassine / Tunisia, United Kingdom, Qatar / Feature Documentary