Film Funding

  • Haneen

    Spring Grant 2011 - Production Stage

    Haneen, a woman in her mid-60s, lives alone in a Palestinian city, estranged from her husband a…

    Ossama Bawardi / Palestine, Jordan, Qatar / Short Narrative

  • Harakat!

    Spring Grants 2022 - Development Stage

    Aalia (14) and Haya (14) are two cool kids who spend their endless afternoons at the skatepark.…

    Nadia Al-Khater / Qatar / Short Narrative

  • Hope

    Spring Grants 2019 - Development Stage

    The short film ‘Hope’ is about a newborn baby sea turtle named Aqua, born with a disability of…

    Abdulla Al Jananhi / Qatar / Short Narrative

  • Hope

    Fall Grants 2020 - Post-Production Stage

    Aqua, the sea turtle, was born with the disability of having one fin smaller than the other. Bu…

    Abdulla Al-Janahi / Qatar / Short Narrative

  • Hope

    Fall Grants 2017 -

    Hévi and Walat, a Kurdish-Syrian refugee couple in their thirties meet a human trafficker. They…

    Mohammad Shaikhow / Syria, Iraq, France, Qatar / Short Narrative

  • How My Grandmother Became A Chair

    Spring Grants 2018 - Production Stage

    The heartless sea is relentlessly approaching poor grandmother’s house. By losing her five sens…

    Nicolas Fattouh / Lebanon, Germany, Qatar / Short Narrative

  • How The Sea Became Salty

    Spring Grants 2022 - Production Stage

    Yara is abandoning her life and leaving Egypt for good. She refuses her friend's Amr offer to d…

    Maysoon El-Massry / Egypt, Germany, Qatar / Short Narrative

  • I Am Afraid To Forget Your Face

    Spring Grants 2019 - Production Stage

    After being separated for 2 months, Adam travels down a rough road to be reunited, whatever it…

    Sameh Morsy / Egypt, France, Qatar / Short Narrative

  • I Promise You Paradise

    Spring Grants 2022 - Production Stage

    Following a violent incident; Eissa a 17 years old illegal African migrant in Egypt is in a que…

    Morad Mostafa / Egypt, France, Qatar / Short Narrative

  • I Wished For Solitude

    Fall Grants 2021 - Development Stage

    A man is born with a rare illness that causes him to slowly lose his face throughout his life a…

    Hamad Alfayhani / Qatar / Short Narrative

  • IALU: The Field of Dreams

    Fall Grants 2022 - Production Stage

    Living in Phantasma, one can barely see outside beyond its massive walls. Gates seem empty, wit…

    Mostafa Youssef / Egypt, Qatar / Short Narrative

  • IZRIQAQ

    Spring Grant 2012 - Production Stage

    In a land dotted with killing machines, Yassine finds an easy cover-up for his crime. But even…

    Rama Mari / Palestine, Norway, Qatar / Short Narrative

  • Inside Me

    Spring Grants 2017 - Production Stage

    A young Egyptian girl living with a conservative group that follows communal acts and practices…

    Halla Tarek / Egypt, Germany, Qatar / Short Narrative

  • Ismail

    Fall Grant 2012 - Post-Production Stage

    A young Palestinian living in a refugee camp in 1949 struggles to escape imminent death when he…

    Nora Alsharif / Jordan, Palestine, United Kingdom, Qatar / Short Narrative

  • J'ai Le Cafard

    Spring Grants 2019 -

    Maryam, a single forty-two-year-old office employee is struggling with keeping up the appearanc…

    Maysaa Almumin / Kuwait, Qatar / Short Narrative

  • Kashta

    Fall Grants 2016 -

    Out in the beautiful quiet of the windswept dunes, a man teaches his young sons the traditional…

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

  • Kendila

    Fall Grants 2020 -

    The story depicts a neo-apocalyptic world told through the landscape of the polluted village of…

    Nadia Rais / Tunisia, Qatar / Short Narrative

  • The Key

    Fall Grants 2016 - Production Stage

    Fathi Moftah, a child refugee, is obsessed with collecting keys. One day, while he is working a…

    Ghassan Jaradat / Jordan, Germany, Qatar / Short Narrative

  • The Key

    Spring Grants 2020 - Production Stage

    Moshe and Elza, an Israeli couple, are awoken by the cries of their 6-year-old girl, Edina, who…

    Rakan Mayasi / Palestine, Belgium, Qatar, France / Short Narrative

  • Kinship

    Spring Grants 2022 - Post-Production Stage

    Khalid and Noura are in the delivery room expecting their first newborn. Instead of being overc…

    Ali Al Hajri / Qatar / Short Narrative