Film Funding

  • Sirena

    Fall Grants 2018 - Post-Production Stage

    Lake Titicaca, 1984. Renowned La Paz engineer Morgan Cabrera drowns in a boating accident. An u…

    Carlos Piñeiro / Bolivia, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Sister

    Spring Grants 2018 - Post-Production Stage

    In a small town in present-day Bulgaria, a mother and her two daughters are struggling to survi…

    Svetla Tsotsorkova / Bulgaria, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Sivas

    Spring Grant 2014 - Post-Production Stage

    Set in a bleak Anatolian village, ‘Sivas’ tells the story of 11-year-old Aslan and Sivas, a wea…

    Kaan Müjdeci / Turkey, Germany, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Sixteen

    Spring Grants 2019 - Production Stage

    In order to say his last goodbye, Adam (16) hides behind a Burqa and goes out into the streets…

    Sameh Morsy / Egypt, France, Qatar / Short Narrative

  • Sleepless nights

    Spring Grant 2011 - Production Stage

    Two people irrevocably changed by war come together in ‘Confession and Struggle,’ an unflinchin…

    Eliane Raheb / Lebanon, France, United Arab Emirates, Palestine, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • Soaring Over Mayhem

    Spring Grants 2017 - Production Stage

    In the brutal lands of northern Syria, 10- year-old bird enthusiast Rami struggles to survive a…

    Abdullah Al-Wazzan / Kuwait, Qatar / Short Narrative

  • Sofia

    Spring Grants 2017 - Production Stage

    Sofia lives with her parents in Casablanca. Suffering from pregnancy denial, she finds herself…

    Meryem Benm’Barek / Morocco, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Somebody Clap for Me

    Fall Grant 2012 - Post-Production Stage

    This poetic rollercoaster ride chronicles Ugandan youth reclaiming their right to a voice by br…

    Luciana Ceccatto Farah / Brazil, Uganda, United Kingdom, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • A Son

    Spring Grants 2019 - Post-Production Stage

    Tunisia, Summer 2011. Fares, Meriem, and their 10-year-old son Aziz are a modern and happy Tuni…

    Mehdi Barsaoui / Tunisia, France, Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Son of a Dog

    Spring Grant 2013 - Development Stage

    Set against the backdrop of a never-ending war, ‘Son of a Dog’ is the coming-of-age story of 17…

    Alain Sauma / Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • South Terminal

    Spring Grants 2019 - Post-Production Stage

    In a Mediterranean country descending into insecurity and armed conflict, a doctor strives to d…

    Rabah Ameur-Zaimeche / France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Speak So I Can See You

    Fall Grants 2018 - Post-Production Stage

    Set at the intersection of an observational documentary and an audio-visual experiment, this fi…

    Marija Stojnic / Serbia, Croatia, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • Speed Sisters

    Spring Grant 2014 - Post-Production Stage

    Meet Marah, Mona, Betty, Noor and Maysoon – the first all-woman rally-racing team in the Middle…

    Amber Fares / Palestine, United States of America, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • Split-Screen

    Fall Grants 2017 - Development Stage

    Two men, 'A' and 'B', are drinking coffee. They receive anonymous texts telling them their drin…

    Fahad Al Khater, Nadia Al Khater / Qatar / Short Narrative

  • Stable Unstable

    Fall Grant 2011 - Production Stage

    It is December 31 in Beirut. Seven people are visiting their psychologists, clinging to the hop…

    Mahmoud Hojeij / Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Standstill

    Fall Grant 2011 - Production Stage

    Arihote is a Kanienkehaka photographer whose life is at a standstill. When he witnesses the mur…

    Majdi El-Omari / Canada, Palestine, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Stateless

    Fall Grants 2016 - Post-Production Stage

    Henia will give anything to mend her broken past and find her mother, from whom she has been se…

    Narjiss Nejjar / Morocco, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Still Recording

    Fall Grants 2016 - Post-Production Stage

    Two young artists, Saeed Al Batal and Ghiath Ayoub become embroiled in the events of the besieg…

    Saeed Al Batal, Ghiath Ayoub / Syria, Lebanon, France, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • Streams

    Fall Grants 2016 - Development Stage

    Amel works in a factory in Tunis. She lives with her alcoholic husband Tahar, a former local fo…

    Mehdi Hmili / Tunisia, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Stronger than a Bullet

    Fall Grant 2014 - Production Stage

    Since the Islamic Revolution of 1979, war propaganda has been Iran’s largest industry. In the n…

    Maryam Ebrahimi / Iran, Sweden, Qatar / Feature Documentary


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