Film Funding

  • 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

  • Aya

    Spring Grant 2015 - Production Stage

    Seven-year-old Aya lives in an inner-city neighbourhood of Marseille. Intelligent and obsessed…

    Moufida Fedhila / Tunisia, France, Qatar / Short Narrative

  • Batata

    Spring Grant 2015 - Production Stage

    The story of ‘Batata’ starts in the year 2009, in the beautiful fields of Lebanon’s Beqaa Valle…

    Noura Kevorkian / Lebanon, Canada, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • Between Two Wars

    Fall Grants 2019 - Post-Production Stage

    Fleeing the Syrian conflict, young Andriy's family unexpectedly land in Ukrainian. Now he helps…

    Alina Gorlova / Ukraine, Latvia, Germany, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • Black Country

    Spring Grant 2011 - Post-Production Stage

    The tanbour is an object of cultural unity; unrestricted by religion or nationalism, this music…

    Mahmoud Omar / Egypt, Qatar / Short Documentary

  • Border

    Fall Grants 2018 - Production Stage

    Mohammed, a Middle Eastern man is desperately trying to get through airport security to his des…

    Khalifa Al-Thani / Qatar / Short Narrative

  • 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

  • Dead Dog (working title)

    Fall Grants 2017 - Production Stage

    When Farid, a 60-year-old man who lives abroad, visits his wife in their Lebanese mountain home…

    Sarah Francis / Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • 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

  • Displaced in Heaven

    Fall Grants 2017 - Production Stage

    The repetition of history and the passing on of collective and individual traumas from generati…

    Khaled Jarrar / Palestine, Germany, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • Do You Love Me

    Spring Grants 2019 - Development Stage

    ‘Do You Love Me’, named after the widely popular Bendaly Family song that was released in 1978…

    Lana Daher / Lebanon, Germany, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • Dream Away

    Spring Grant 2014 - Development Stage

    Representing freedom and easy cash, Sharm El Sheikh has long been a dream destination for Egypt…

    Marouan Omara, Johanna Domke / Egypt, Germany, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • The Fifth Resurrection of Farid

    Fall Grants 2017 - Production Stage

    Little Tokyo, Los Angeles. An old man comes across an odd collection of film reels, vinyl recor…

    Khalid Youssef / Egypt, Qatar / Feature Experimental or Essay

  • The Foreign Son

    Spring Grant 2013 - Production Stage

    Answering the call of his homeland, of which he retains only childhood memories, 50-year-old Om…

    Abdallah Badis / France, Qatar, Algeria / Feature Documentary

  • The Foreign Son

    Spring Grant 2012 - Development Stage

    Answering the call of his homeland, of which he retains only childhood memories, 50-year-old Om…

    Abdallah Badis / Algeria, France, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • 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

  • 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

  • Handala, The Boy Without A Face

    Fall Grants 2019 - Development Stage

    Handala, the refugee Palestinian child, appeared in thousands of political caricatures to shed…

    Mahmoud Kaabour / Germany, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • Heights

    Spring Grants 2018 - Development Stage

    Abdul’Rohim and his friends are young Rohingyas fleeing persecution in Myanmar to find refuge i…

    Faïza Yakoubi / Algeria, Romania, France, Qatar / Feature Documentary


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