Film Funding

  • Bull Shark

    Spring Grants 2016 - Development Stage

    ‘Bull Shark’ is inspired by real events that took place during the second wave of economic grow…

    Mohammed Al Ibrahim / Qatar, Bahrain, United States of America / Feature Narrative

  • Burning Birds

    Fall Grant 2013 - Production Stage

    1989. A small village in eastern Sri Lanka. After her husband is abducted, tortured and murdere…

    Sanjeewa Pushpakumara / Sri Lanka, France, Netherlands, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • By the Time It Gets Dark

    Fall Grant 2013 - Production Stage

    By the Time It Gets Dark’ tells the interwoven stories of several characters: a film director a…

    Anocha Suwichakornpong / Thailand, France, Netherlands, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Bystander

    Fall Grants 2018 - Production, Production, Production Stage

    On a sunny July day in Beirut, Roger, a beloved basketball coach, is on his way to work, proudl…

    Rachel Aoun / Lebanon, Qatar / Short Narrative

  • Cactus Flower

    Fall Grant 2015 - Production Stage

    Aida, a struggling actress, came to Cairo from the Delta as a university student; like many oth…

    Hala Elkoussy / Egypt, United Arab Emirates, Norway, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • The Camera Never Cries

    Fall Grants 2020 - Development Stage

    From the beginning of the film, we land in an intimate space with two friends trying to revisit…

    Abuzar Adam, Elsadig Abdelgayoum / Sudan, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • The Cave

    Spring Grants 2019 - Post-Production Stage

    Through the past seven years the civil war in Syria has spread death, horror and has cost a fri…

    Feras Fayyad / Denmark, Syria, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • The Cave

    Spring Grants 2018 - Development Stage

    To escape the ongoing aerial bombardment on hospitals and chemical weapon attacks that killed m…

    Feras Fayyad / Syria, Denmark, United States of America, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • Celebration

    Fall Grants 2023 - Post-Production Stage

    Mijo lives with his family in a poor village in the rural part of Croatia. By witnessing a crue…

    Bruno Anković / Croatia, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Ceuta's Gate

    Fall Grants 2017 -

    Ceuta’s Gate is a series of reconstructed situations based on observations made on the border o…

    Randa Maroufi / Morocco, France, Lebanon, Qatar / Short Documentary

  • Chained Prey

    Spring Grants 2021 - Production Stage

    An Indian falcon, Raja, lives in the Arabian Gulf with his falconer, Sultan. While Raja has mor…

    Esmail Zalat / Egypt, Qatar / Short Narrative

  • Challat of Tunis

    Spring Grant 2011 - Production Stage

    Tunis, 2003. A man on a mo-ped, razor blade in hand, prowls the streets. He’s on a mission: to…

    Kaouther Ben Hania / Tunisia, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • Champ of the Camp

    Fall Grant 2012 - Production Stage

    Hailed by critics world-wide for its entertaining yet sympathetic look at the labour issue in t…

    Mahmoud Kaabour / United Arab Emirates, Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • Chaos

    Fall Grants 2017 -

    ‘Chaos’ narrates the story of three women in three cities – three women who have given up on li…

    Sara Fattahi / Syria, Austria, Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • Chasing the Dazzling Light

    Fall Grants 2022 - Post-Production Stage

    A Syrian filmmaker who lives in Sweden searches for inspiration to make a film related to his n…

    Yaser Kassab / Syria, Qatar / Feature Experimental or Essay

  • Chasing the Dazzling Light

    Spring Grants 2021 - Development Stage

    In a small town in central Sweden, Yaser embarks on a journey searching for inspiration to make…

    Yaser Kassab / Syria, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • Chibayish 2023

    Fall Grants 2022 - Production Stage

    'In Lieu of What Is' (Chibayish) examines how nature in southern Iraq has been viewed as a harb…

    Alia Farid / Kuwait, Qatar / Short Experimental or Essay

  • Chikha

    Spring Grants 2022 - Production Stage

    Fatine, a 17-year-old girl, lives in Azemmour, Morocco, with her mother Nadia, and grandfather.…

    Ayoub Layoussifi, Zahoua RAJI / Morocco, France, Qatar / Short Narrative

  • Children of the Enemy

    Fall Grants 2020 - Post-Production Stage

    ‘Children of the Enemy’ is the story of bohemian musician Patricio whose daughter married one o…

    Gorki Glaser-Müller / Sweden, Denmark, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • Children of the Famine

    Spring Grants 2018 - Production Stage

    Between 1915 and 1918, a famine killed an estimated two hundred thousand people, almost half of…

    Reine Mitri / Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Documentary