Film Funding

  • 3000 Nights

    Spring Grant 2015 - Post-Production Stage

    Falsely accused of being involved in terrorist activity, Layal is arrested, interrogated and in…

    Mai Masri / Palestine, France, Jordan, Lebanon, United Arab Emirates, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • 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

  • After A Revolution

    Spring Grants 2019 -

    Filmed over six years, ‘After A Revolution’ is a brother and sister’s epic, challenging, yet in…

    Giovanni Buccomino / Italy, Libya, United Kingdom, United States of America, Netherlands, Sweden, Denmark, 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

  • Another Day In Baghdad

    Fall Grants 2019 - Post-Production Stage

    Sara and her neighbours open the doors of their everyday lives for us, in a middle-class distri…

    Maysoon Pachachi / United Kingdom, France, Germany, Kuwait, United Arab Emirates, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Ava

    Spring Grants 2017 - Post-Production Stage

    Ava’s first visit to the gynaecologist with her mother is a traumatic experience for the young…

    Sadaf Foroughi / Iran, Canada, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • 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

  • Behind Closed Doors

    Fall Grant 2015 - Development Stage

    ‘Behind Closed Doors’ is a portrait of a farming family living in one of the most marginalised…

    Yakout Elhababi / Morocco, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • Behind Closed Doors

    Fall Grants 2019 - Production Stage

    Six-year-old Leila and her mother, Sara, have a close relationship. They live in a comfortable…

    Hend Fakhroo / Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Beit Byoot

    Fall Grants 2017 -

    Set in a dystopian dollhouse, Jameela, a friendly little girl wants nothing more than to fit in…

    Mayar Hamdan / Jordan, Qatar / Short Narrative

  • Between Sisters

    Spring Grant 2015 - Post-Production Stage

    The two sisters Ornella and Teresa have cared for each other through their whole lives. Teresa…

    Manu Gerosa / Italy, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • Born in the Maelstrom

    Spring Grants 2016 - Production Stage

    Inspired by the novel ‘Naissance de Rebecca à l’ère des tourments’ by Québécoise author Marie-C…

    Meryam Joobeur / Tunisia, Canada, Qatar / Short Narrative

  • 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

  • Ceuta's Gate

    Fall Grants 2017 - Production Stage

    Ceuta is a Spanish enclave on Moroccan soil. It has, since the independence of the country, wit…

    Randa Maroufi / Morocco, France, Lebanon, Qatar / Short Experimental or Essay

  • The Dark Wind

    Fall Grant 2015 - Post-Production Stage

    Reko and Pero, a young Yazidi couple, prepare for family life in their village Boza. Suddenly,…

    Hussein Hassan / Iraq, Germany, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • 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

  • Divines

    Fall Grant 2015 - Post-Production Stage

    In a ghetto where trafficking and religion run side by side, Dounia is eager for power and succ…

    Houda Benyamina / Morocco, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Dégradé

    Fall Grant 2014 - Production Stage

    A hot summer's day in the Gaza Strip. Today the electricity is on. Christine’s beauty salon is…

    Mohammed (Arab) Abunasser, Ahmad (Tarazan) Abunasser / Palestine, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Freedom Fields

    Spring Grant 2012 - Development Stage

    In post-revolution Libya, a group of women are brought together by one dream: to play football…

    Naziha Arebi / Libya, United Kingdom, United States of America, Netherlands, Canada, Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Documentary


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