Film Funding

  • Niemeyer 4 Ever

    Fall Grants 2023 - Production Stage

    Beyond the ambient chaos of the city of Tripoli, in northern Lebanon, and the crisis that the c…

    Aurelia Makdessi / Lebanon, France, Germany, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • 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

  • Nine Month War

    Fall Grants 2017 -

    Twenty-four-year-old Jani lives in a small town in Western Ukraine, part of the minority Hungar…

    László Csuja / Hungary, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • 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

  • Nothingwood

    Spring Grants 2017 -

    About a hundred kilometres away from Kabul, Salim Shaheen, the most popular and prolific actor-…

    Sonia Kronlund / France, Germany, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • O My Body!

    Fall Grant 2012 - Post-Production Stage

    Seeking to bridge Mediterranean cultures, choreographer Abou Lagraa and his wife, dancer Nawal…

    Laurent Aït Benalla / France, Qatar, Morocco / Feature Documentary

  • Octopus

    Spring Grants 2021 - Post-Production Stage

    A filmmaker arrives to work on his new film and is confronted with a colossal explosion that ch…

    Karim Kassem / Lebanon, Sweden, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • Of Fathers and Sons

    Fall Grants 2017 -

    Syrian filmmaker Talal Derki returns after his Sundance prize-winning documentary ‘Return To Ho…

    Talal Derki / Syria, Germany, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • 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 Amiralay - Sorrow, Time and Silence

    Spring Grants 2021 - Post-Production Stage

    This is not a portrait of the Syrian director Omar Amiralay. This is not a cross-section of the…

    Hala Alabdalla / France, Syria, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • On The Road To Downtown

    Fall Grant 2011 - Post-Production Stage

    Through the lives of the characters and their simple daily details, we discover together the do…

    Sherif El Bendary / Egypt, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • On the Crossbar

    Spring Grants 2017 -

    In June of 1978, Tunisia entered the international football scene as the first African team eve…

    Sami Tlili / Tunisia, France, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • On the Hillsides

    Fall Grants 2016 -

    A wind of liberty called the Arab Spring has been blowing in this part of the world. Algeria re…

    Abdallah Badis / Algeria, France, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • 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

  • Ouaga Girls

    Fall Grants 2016 -

    The sun shines over an open garage in Burkina Faso’s capital, where Bintou is lacquering a car…

    Theresa Traore Dahlberg / Burkina Faso, Sweden, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • Out of Place

    Fall Grants 2020 - Development Stage

    Mohammed, a chubby adolescent, is dancing the Dabke with his teenage friends in the cultural ce…

    Mohammed Al-Madjalawi / Sweden, 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

  • Ozogoche

    Spring Grants 2023 - Post-Production Stage

    The Cuviví is the only bird that inexplicably commits suicide. While most of the migrating huma…

    Joe Houlberg Silva / Ecuador, Belgium, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • The Pact of Aleppo

    Spring Grants 2020 -

    Set in Aleppo from the first demonstrations in 2011 up to the evacuation of the city in 2016, '…

    Karim Serjieh / Syria, France, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • The People

    Fall Grants 2019 - Production Stage

    Mahfod Lakroune, Ahcen Djouzi and Amir Bensaid from the former troupe “Action Culturelle des Tr…

    Rahma Benhamou El Madani / Algeria, Qatar / Feature Documentary