Film Funding

  • The Rise of the Gulf / Beyond Black Gold

    Spring Grant 2013 - Production Stage

    Two films to tell the incredible tale of the metamorphosis of the Gulf’s emirates over the cour…

    Frédéric Compain / France, Qatar, Kuwait / Feature Documentary

  • The SOURCE

    Fall Grants 2018 -

    In the winter of 2018, a team of young reporters takes over Maktaris News: Soumaya, Noor, Raoua…

    Erige Sehiri / Tunisia, Switzerland, Qatar / TV Series

  • Salaam Plenty

    Spring Grant 2012 - Development Stage

    'Salaam Plenty' is about the memory and erasure of the presence of Afghan cameleers in Australi…

    Samira (Yasmine) Kassari / Morocco, Australia, Belgium, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • Scenes from a Revolt Sustained

    Spring Grant 2011 - Production Stage

    Examining the culture and history of Tunisia and how it has been mediated or ignored by the Wes…

    Kays Mejri, Matt Peterson / France, Tunisia, United States of America, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • 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

  • 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

  • Talking About Trees

    Fall Grants 2018 - Post-Production Stage

    Filmmakers Ibrahim, Soliman, Manar and Altayeb have been friends for over 45 years, idealists a…

    Suhaib Gasmelbari / France, Sudan, Germany, Chad, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • Terra Firma

    Fall Grant 2013 - Production Stage

    In a small commercial harbour in the south of France, two Moroccan sailors are watching over fe…

    Laurent Aït Benalla / Morocco, France, United Arab Emirates, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • The Forbidden Strings

    Fall Grants 2018 - Post-Production Stage

    During the day, they are labourers and do what most Afghan refugees do in Iran, which is carpen…

    Hasan Noori / Afghanistan, Iran / Feature Documentary

  • The Virgin, the Copts and Me

    Fall Grant 2011 - Post-Production Stage

    Namir is a French filmmaker of Egyptian origin. One day he watches a videotape of the Virgin Ma…

    Namir Abdel Messeeh / France, Qatar, Egypt / Feature Documentary

  • Walls and People

    Spring Grant 2012 - Production Stage

    This film is a cry from the heart of the Medina of Casablanca for its inhabitants and their mem…

    Dalila Ennadre / Morocco, Algeria, France, United Arab Emirates, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • Walou

    Fall Grant 2011 - Development Stage

    I hate the bled! When I was young, every summer, going to Algeria, I couldn’t do anything witho…

    Hassiba Belhadj / Algeria, France, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • We Are Inside

    Fall Grants 2018 - Production Stage

    Being away for a decade, Farah returns to her father’s place in her hometown Tripoli, Lebanon.…

    Farah Kassem / Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • What's Your Story? Part I

    Fall Grant 2011 - Production/Post-Production Stage

    Jamal, a Palestinian citizen of Israel, meets five young Israelis with differing ideological pe…

    Jamal Khalaile, Pauline Carbonnier / Palestine, France, Qatar / Feature Experimental or Essay

  • Zaynab's Sisters

    Fall Grant 2011 - Production Stage

    Sama, a 25-year-old woman of Egyptian origin raised in Italy, has just received her degree in p…

    Carolina Popolani / Egypt, Italy, Qatar / Feature Documentary


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