Film Funding

  • Opening Doors

    Fall Grant 2014 - Development Stage

    ‘Opening Doors’ tells the true story of Amna Mahmoud who, from her early childhood, dreamed of…

    Nora Al-Subai / Qatar, Canada / Short Narrative

  • Orca

    Fall Grants 2020 - Post-Production Stage

    Elham, a young divorced Iranian woman, survives a horrific beating at the hands of her estrange…

    Sahar Mossayebi / Qatar, Iran / Feature Narrative

  • The Orphanage

    Spring Grants 2019 - Post-Production Stage

    'The Orphanage' is set in Kabul in the late 1980s. 15-year-old Qodrat lives on the streets and…

    Shahrbanoo Sadat / Afghanistan, Denmark, Luxembourg, France, Germany, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • 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

  • Our Madness

    Spring Grants 2017 -

    Lucy is hospitalized in a psychiatric hospital in Mozambique. She dreams about her little son,…

    João Viana / Portugal, Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Our River...Our Sky

    Fall Grants 2019 - Post-Production, Post-Production Stage

    Baghdad, 2006. All over the city, people of different religions are being forced out of their h…

    Maysoon Pachachi / United Kingdom, France, Germany, Kuwait, United Arab Emirates, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Ouroboros

    Fall Grants 2016 -

    Diego Marcon is a man with a broken heart who journeys into the heart of the human condition on…

    Basma Alsharif / Palestine, France, Qatar / Feature Experimental or Essay

  • Out Of My Mind

    Fall Grants 2021 - Development Stage

    Mo is a Somali writer who grew up and still lives in Dubai. One day, Mo wakes up to find the el…

    Mo Yusuf / Qatar, Somalia, Djibouti, United Arab Emirates / TV Series

  • 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

  • PLAGUE

    Fall Grants 2024 - Production Stage

    Tozeur—a farming town on the edge of the Tunisian desert. Zied and Anis are twin brothers who j…

    Youssef Chebbi / Tunisia, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • PROJECT : AISHA

    Fall Grants 2024 - Post-Production Stage

    After nearly losing her daughter in an accident, Amal, a neurosurgeon, defies medical advice an…

    Fahad Al-Nahdi / Qatar / Short Narrative

  • Pacific Club

    Fall Grants 2021 - Production Stage

    La Défense, the 1980s. Paris’ business district is booming—in the day, men and women come to wo…

    Valentin Noujaïm / France, Qatar / Short 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

  • A Palm Frond

    Fall Grants 2024 - Post-Production Stage

    ""In ‘A Palm Frond’, a deeply introspective tale unfolds as a woman grapples with love, loss, a…

    Mahdi Ali Ali / Qatar, United States of America / Short Narrative

  • Palmyra

    Spring Grants 2024 - Development Stage

    In 2015, amidst the Syrian civil war, the ancient city of Palmyra faced widespread looting and…

    Gabriela Flores, Carole Mezher / Lebanon, France, Qatar / TV Series

  • Papicha

    Spring Grants 2017 -

    Algeria, 1990s—Nedjma is a free-spirited and independent young student. She refuses to allow th…

    Mounia Meddour / Algeria, France, Belgium, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Parijat

    Spring Grant 2014 - Development Stage

    'Parijat' is an enthralling drama that explores a Qatari woman's efforts to save her family's t…

    Hend Fakhroo / Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Paris the White

    Spring Grant 2015 -

    Aicha married Nour in 1962, the year of Algerian independence. Later, Nour went to work in Fran…

    Lidia Terki / Algeria, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative