Film Funding

  • O My Body!

    Fall Grant 2012 - Post-Production Stage

    Seeking to bridge Mediterranean cultures, choreographer Abou Lagraa and his wife, dancer Nawal…

    Laurent Aït Benalla / France, Qatar, Morocco / Feature Documentary

  • Off Frame AKA Revolution Until Victory

    Fall Grant 2013 - Production/Post-Production Stage

    What is left today from the Palestinian revolution are some images and sounds, pieces of film s…

    Mohanad Yaqubi / Palestine, France, Qatar / Feature Experimental or Essay

  • Omar La Fraise

    Fall Grants 2019 - Production Stage

    Omar Zerrouki, better known by his street name "Omar la Fraise", is an old-school gangster. For…

    Elias Belkedar / Algeria, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • On the Crossbar

    Spring Grants 2017 - Production Stage

    In June of 1978, Tunisia entered the international football scene as the first African team eve…

    Sami Tlili / Tunisia, France, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • On the Hillsides

    Fall Grants 2016 - Post-Production Stage

    A wind of liberty called the Arab Spring has been blowing in this part of the world. Algeria re…

    Abdallah Badis / Algeria, France, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • One Week Ago, Today

    Spring Grant 2012 - Development Stage

    Off the coast of a small fishing town in the south of Lebanon, a man in his 40s is found uncons…

    Rania Attieh, Daniel Garcia / Lebanon, United States of America, France, 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

  • Our Madness

    Spring Grants 2017 - Post-Production Stage

    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

  • Ouroboros

    Fall Grants 2016 - Production Stage

    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

  • Papicha

    Spring Grants 2017 - Production Stage

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

    Mounia Meddour / Algeria, France, Belgium, 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

  • Playground Chronicles

    Fall Grant 2011 - Production Stage

    Brahim and his family are of Moroccan descent, and live on the grounds of a crane construction…

    Brahim Fritah / France, Qatar, Morocco / Feature Narrative

  • Plot 35

    Fall Grants 2016 - Post-Production Stage

    Plot 35 is a place that was never mentioned in my family; it is where my elder sister, who died…

    Eric Caravaca / France, Germany, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • Poisonous Roses

    Fall Grant 2015 - Production Stage

    Twenty-eight-year-old Taheya works as a washroom cleaner, and lives with her 22-year-old brothe…

    Fawzi Saleh / Egypt, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • The Poster

    Fall Grants 2016 - Production Stage

    A poster appears on the walls of the Palestinian village of Reith, accusing the local women of…

    Suha Arraf / Palestine, France, Germany, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Professor

    Spring Grant 2012 - Post-Production Stage

    In 1977, Khalil Khalsawi, a constitutional law teacher in Tunis, is commissioned by the governi…

    Mahmoud Ben Mahmoud / Tunisia, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Queens

    Fall Grants 2019 - Production Stage

    Casablanca, Morocco. 27-year-old Zineb is a repeat offender behind bars. When she learns that…

    Yasmine Benkiran / Morocco, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Railway Men

    Spring Grants 2017 - Post-Production Stage

    Four Tunisian railway employees are assigned to Line #1. They call it "the normal way" because…

    Erige Sehiri / Tunisia, France, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • Railway Men

    Spring Grant 2013 - Development Stage

    Tunisian railroaders call it “the normal way” because it is the only railroad in the country bu…

    Erige Sehiri / Tunisia, France, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • Republic of Silence

    Fall Grants 2016 - Production Stage

    She grew up in the lands of dictators and surveillance, where images are censored, photos are b…

    Diana El Jeiroudi / Syria, Germany, France, Qatar / Feature Documentary


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