Film Funding

  • Days of Tyranny

    Spring Grant 2014 - Production Stage

    In a border town set in an unnamed Arab country ruled by a ruthless dictatorship, Hana, a mothe…

    Katia Jarjoura / Lebanon, France, Canada, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Dead Dog

    Fall Grants 2017 - Production Stage

    Aida, a 47-year-old woman living in Beirut, learns that Walid, her husband who lives and works…

    Sarah Francis / Lebanon, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Dear Son

    Fall Grants 2020 - Production Stage

    Between the vows imposed by the monastic life and the maternity feeling, a nun finds herself fa…

    Wassim Geagea / Lebanon, Qatar / Short Narrative

  • Dede

    Spring Grant 2014 - Production Stage

    Dina lives in a remote village high in the Georgian mountains, where traditions have remained t…

    Mariam Khatchvani / Georgia, Ireland, Netherlands, Croatia, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • A Deep Long Breath

    Fall Grant 2011 - Post-Production Stage

    In 18 days, the January 25 Egyptian Revolution toppled a three-decade-old dictatorship and Egyp…

    Tahani Rached / Egypt, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • Demba

    Fall Grants 2023 - Post-Production Stage

    55-year-old Demba is about to retire after 30 years of service at the city hall in his small to…

    Mamadou Dia / Senegal, Germany, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Democracy Year Zero

    Fall Grant 2012 - Post-Production Stage

    Four weeks. That is how long it took the Tunisian people to overthrow the dictator Zine El Abid…

    Amira Chebli, Christophe Cotteret / Tunisia, Belgium, France, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • The Desert Fish

    Fall Grant 2012 - Production Stage

    The southern desert of Morocco. The son wants to become a fisherman and is always dreaming of t…

    Alaa Eddine Aljem / Morocco, France, Belgium, Qatar / Short Narrative

  • The Devil's Drivers

    Spring Grants 2018 - Post-Production Stage

    The southern West Bank with its beautiful landscapes is home to many Palestinian Bedouins. In t…

    Daniel Carsenty, Mohammed Abugeth / Palestine, Germany, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • Diamond Island

    Spring Grants 2016 -

    Diamond Island is a symbol of Cambodia’s future, a sprawling, ultra-modern paradise for the ric…

    Davy Chou / Cambodia, France, Germany, Thailand, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Diaries from Lebanon

    Spring Grants 2021 - Production Stage

    In 2018, Joumana, a fiery feminist writer, poet and activist runs for election defying a politi…

    Myriam El Hajj / Lebanon, France, Saudi Arabia, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • Die Welt

    Fall Grant 2012 - Post-Production Stage

    'Die Welt' is an audacious hybrid of fiction and documentary, showing contemporary Tunisia shor…

    Karim Alexander Pitstra / Tunisia, Netherlands, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Dirty, Difficult, Dangerous

    Spring Grants 2019 - Production Stage

    Roaming the streets of Beirut searching for metal objects to be recycled, Ahmed, a Syrian refug…

    Wissam Charaf / France, Lebanon, Germany, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Disappearance

    Spring Grants 2017 -

    In an Iranian culture that operates within strict social mores, Sara, a university student, and…

    Ali Asgari / Iran, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Disco Afrika: A Malagasy Story

    Fall Grants 2023 - Post-Production Stage

    Madagascar, nowadays. Twenty-year-old Kwame struggles to make a living in the clandestine sapph…

    Luck Razanajaona / Madagascar, France, Mauritius, Germany, South Africa, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Divine Wind

    Fall Grants 2017 -

    Nour and Amine don’t know each other. They meet in a house, near the city of Timimoun, in the A…

    Merzak Allouache / Algeria, France, Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Divines

    Fall Grant 2015 - Post-Production Stage

    In a ghetto where trafficking and religion run side by side, Dounia is eager for power and succ…

    Houda Benyamina / Morocco, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Divines

    Fall Grant 2012 - Development Stage

    In a ghetto where trafficking and religion run side by side, Dounia is eager for power and succ…

    Houda Benyamina / Morocco, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Do You Love Me

    Spring Grants 2019 - Development Stage

    ‘Do You Love Me’ is an archive-based documentary that portrays the lived experiences of generat…

    Lana Daher / France, Lebanon, Germany, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • The Dog's Children

    Fall Grants 2016 - Post-Production Stage

    In Jeddah during the economically transformative year of 1973, a rabid neighbourhood dog cataly…

    Layan Abdul Shakoor / Saudi Arabia, Qatar / Short Narrative