Film Funding

  • 5 Seasons of Revolution

    Fall Grants 2017 - Post-Production Stage

    To support an armed struggle, to protest peacefully, to flee or to document events: these are t…

    Layla Abyad / Syria, Germany, Norway, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • Al Yarmouk Ghetto

    Spring Grants 2019 - Production Stage

    At the beginning of the Syrian revolution, Yarmouk camp near Damascus was subject to shelling a…

    Abdullah Al Khateeb / Syria, 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

  • 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

  • A Comedian in a Syrian Tragedy

    Spring Grants 2016 - Post-Production Stage

    This chronicle of an uprising and of exile begins in the early months of the Syrian revolution,…

    Rami Farah / Syria, Denmark, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • Damascus My First Kiss

    Spring Grant 2011 - Post-Production Stage

    When I got my first period, my mother kissed me and said with a smile: “Now you are a woman. Yo…

    Lina Alabed / Syria, Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • The Day I Lost My Shadow

    Spring Grant 2012 - Development Stage

    Sana is a young mother struggling to raise her eight-year-old child in war-torn Syria in 2012.…

    Soudade Kaadan / Syria, Lebanon, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • The Day I Lost My Shadow

    Fall Grants 2017 - Post-Production Stage

    Sana is a young mother struggling to raise her eight-year-old child in war-torn Syria in 2012.…

    Soudade Kaadan / Syria, Lebanon, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • The Forgotten

    Fall Grant 2011 - Production Stage

    Mustafa steals across the Israeli border with the help of a local smuggler. This is a one-way t…

    Ehab Tarabieh / Syria, Qatar / Short Narrative

  • From My Syrian Room

    Spring Grant 2014 - Post-Production Stage

    How can one operate as a free, creative person when one has been channelled to remain a good ci…

    Hazem Alhamwi / Syria, Lebanon, France, Germany, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • Gevar's Land

    Spring Grants 2018 - Development Stage

    Over four seasons, we follow the labour-filled days of Gevar, a Syrian refugee, whose small gar…

    Qutaiba Barhamji / Syria, France, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • Home There..Cinema Here

    Spring Grant 2013 - Production Stage

    An abandoned movie theatre. Sound and image buried in dust. A waft of light spills over broken…

    Nidal Al Dibs / Egypt, Qatar, Syria / Feature Documentary

  • Hope

    Fall Grants 2017 - Production Stage

    Hévi and Walat, a Kurdish-Syrian refugee couple in their thirties meet a human trafficker. They…

    Mohammad Shaikhow / Syria, Iraq, France, Qatar / Short Narrative

  • Ibrahim, a Fate to Define

    Fall Grant 2015 -

    Ibrahim Alabed, my father, was a secret member of the Revolutionary Council, a Palestinian mili…

    Lina Alabed / Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • Ladder to Damascus

    Spring Grant 2011 - Production Stage

    Ghalia moves to Damascus to study acting and rents a room in a traditional courtyard house, whe…

    Mohamad Malas / Syria, Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • The Most Pretty Dudes

    Spring Grant 2015 - Production Stage

    ‘The Most Pretty Dudes’ is based on an audio recording of negotiations between two groups, one…

    Mohammad Dibo / Syria, Qatar / Short Experimental or Essay

  • Of Fathers and Sons

    Fall Grants 2017 - Post-Production Stage

    Syrian filmmaker Talal Derki returns after his Sundance prize-winning documentary ‘Return To Ho…

    Talal Derki / Syria, Germany, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • Passerby

    Spring Grants 2019 - Production Stage

    After spending unfruitful years studying medicine in the former Soviet Union, Adnan decided to…

    Ameer Fakher Eldin / Syria, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Plastic Flowers‏

    Spring Grants 2018 - Production Stage

    A documentary about the experience of enforced disappearance in the prisons of ISIS told throug…

    Amer Mattar / Syria, Germany, Sweden, Qatar / Feature Documentary


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