Film Funding

  • Riverbed

    Fall Grants 2016 - Production Stage

    Riverbed tells the story of Salma and her returning daughter Thuraya, and their attempt to pres…

    Bassem Breche / Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Road Trip

    Spring Grants 2024 - Development Stage

    Khammar, a 72-year-old garage owner in Vaulx-en-Velin, a suburb of Lyon, considers his garage h…

    LINDA QIBAA / Morocco, France, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • A Road to Damascus

    Spring Grants 2019 - Development Stage

    Based on Meedo’s novel of the same title. A bus carrying immigrant farmers is gunned down just…

    Meedo Taha / Lebanon, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Road to La Paz

    Spring Grant 2015 - Post-Production Stage

    Thirty-five-year-old Sebastián’s greatest passions are his old Peugeot 505 and the prog-rock ba…

    Francisco Varone / Argentina, Netherlands, Germany, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • The Road to Mosul

    Spring Grants 2016 -

    Mosul, 2014. Ten-year-old Zaineb and her 14-year-old brother, Yousif escape after ISIS militia…

    Yahya Al Allaq / Iraq, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • The Rooftops

    Fall Grant 2012 - Production Stage

    Algiers. An overcrowded city with endless traffic jams, chaotic crowds, rundown buildings, old…

    Merzak Allouache / Algeria, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Roqia

    Fall Grants 2022 - Production Stage

    In 1993, after a car crash leaves Ahmed with amnesia, he returns to his village, where not…

    Yanis Koussim / Algeria, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • 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

  • Roundabout in My Head

    Spring Grant 2015 - Post-Production Stage

    While it may seem strange to think of an abattoir as a place of peace and beauty, ‘Roundabout…

    Hassen Ferhani / Algeria, France, Lebanon, Netherlands, Qatar / Feature Experimental or Essay

  • Rumors

    Spring Grant 2011 - Production Stage

    Souad and her neighbours’ hearts go out to the people who live around the block, victims of the…

    Azza El-Hassan / Jordan, Qatar / Short Narrative

  • Running With Beasts

    Spring Grants 2024 - Development Stage

    Amid the Lebanese economic crisis, a group of five high schoolers meets one last time after gra…

    Leila Basma / Czech Republic, Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • SELFLESS

    Fall Grants 2024 - Production Stage

    Oran, Algeria. By adopting extreme measures to save the illusory refuge of her marriage, Salima…

    Meriem Mesraoua / Qatar, France, Algeria / Feature Narrative

  • SELFLESS

    Spring Grants 2022 - Development Stage

    By adopting extreme measures to save the illusory refuge of her marriage, Salima is confronted…

    Meriem Mesraoua / France, Algeria, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • SLEEPLESS CITY

    Fall Grants 2024 - Post-Production Stage

    La Cañada Real, on the outskirts of Madrid, is one of the largest illegal shanty towns in Europ…

    Guillermo García López / France, Spain, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • The STORIES

    Spring Grants 2022 - Production Stage

    In 1967 Ali Ragheb, a young man from Cairo, receives a letter from an Austrian girl named Liz—a…

    Abu Bakr Shawky / France, Egypt, Austria, Germany / Feature Narrative

  • Saffron's Land

    Fall Grants 2017 - Development Stage

    In the Atlas Mountains lies Safrana, an isolated village that was repeatedly attacked by the Fr…

    Yassine El Idrissi / Morocco, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Sahaab

    Spring Grant 2015 - Production Stage

    Following his brother’s death, Nasser and his friend Sanad decide to participate in a falcon ra…

    Khalifa Abdullah Al Muraikhi / Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • 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

  • Salted Skins

    Spring Grants 2024 - Production Stage

    Nabil and Mikayel lived peacefully in their small house, protected from the threatening salt. E…

    Nicolas Fattouh / France, Canada, Lebanon, Qatar / Short Narrative