Film Funding

  • Sirena

    Fall Grants 2018 - Post-Production Stage

    Lake Titicaca, 1984. Renowned La Paz engineer Morgan Cabrera drowns in a boating accident. An u…

    Carlos Piñeiro / Bolivia, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Sister

    Spring Grants 2018 - Post-Production Stage

    In a small town in present-day Bulgaria, a mother and her two daughters are struggling to survi…

    Svetla Tsotsorkova / Bulgaria, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Sivas

    Spring Grant 2014 - Post-Production Stage

    Set in a bleak Anatolian village, ‘Sivas’ tells the story of 11-year-old Aslan and Sivas, a wea…

    Kaan Müjdeci / Turkey, Germany, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • 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

  • A Son

    Spring Grants 2019 - Post-Production Stage

    Tunisia, Summer 2011. Fares, Meriem, and their 10-year-old son Aziz are a modern and happy Tuni…

    Mehdi Barsaoui / Tunisia, France, Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • South Terminal

    Spring Grants 2019 - Post-Production Stage

    In a Mediterranean country descending into insecurity and armed conflict, a doctor strives to d…

    Rabah Ameur-Zaimeche / France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Speak So I Can See You

    Fall Grants 2018 - Post-Production Stage

    Set at the intersection of an observational documentary and an audio-visual experiment, this fi…

    Marija Stojnic / Serbia, Croatia, 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

  • Stateless

    Fall Grants 2016 - Post-Production Stage

    Henia will give anything to mend her broken past and find her mother, from whom she has been se…

    Narjiss Nejjar / Morocco, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Still Recording

    Fall Grants 2016 - Post-Production Stage

    Two young artists, Saeed Al Batal and Ghiath Ayoub become embroiled in the events of the besieg…

    Saeed Al Batal, Ghiath Ayoub / Syria, Lebanon, France, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • TV Society

    Fall Grants 2019 - Post-Production Stage

    The airing of the Arabic version of an international dating TV show, that offers a panel of wom…

    Robert Cremona / Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Tadmor

    Fall Grant 2015 - Post-Production Stage

    Raymond. Youssef. Ali. Saad. Moussa. Rashid. Mahmoud. Elias. Individuals. Together. The Lebanes…

    Monika Borgmann, Lokman Slim / Lebanon, 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

  • Taste of Cement

    Spring Grant 2015 - Post-Production Stage

    The Lebanese Civil War ended nearly a generation ago, but it remains far from forgotten, stampe…

    Ziad Kalthom / Syria, Lebanon, Germany, United Arab Emirates, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • Temporarily

    Spring Grants 2019 - Post-Production Stage

    Reham is a 24-year-old Syrian girl who studied acting in Syria. Because of the war there, she m…

    Reham Alkassar / Germany, Qatar / Feature Experimental or Essay

  • The Disqualified

    Fall Grants 2019 - Post-Production Stage

    Mehrez is a bold personality in a small Tunisian town. At 25 years old, Mehrez decides to enlig…

    Hamza Ouni / Tunisia, France, 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 Names Of The Flowers

    Spring Grants 2019 - Post-Production Stage

    As Bolivia stages the 50th anniversary of the death of “great Che Guevara”, Julia an old countr…

    Bahman Tavoosi / Canada, United States of America, Bolivia, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • The Unlucky Hamster

    Fall Grants 2019 - Post-Production Stage

    Fluffy is a cute little hamster who just can't catch a break! Every day he patiently waits in h…

    Abdulaziz Khashabi / Qatar, Indonesia / Short Narrative

  • The Woodman

    Spring Grants 2019 - Post-Production Stage

    A surreal feature film with a thriller theme, and a life-sized wooden dummy as the protagonist,…

    Koutaiba Al-Janabi / Iraq, United Kingdom, Qatar / Feature Narrative


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