Film Funding

  • 1982

    Spring Grant 2015 - Production Stage

    As the academic year draws to a close at a school high in the mountains of Lebanon, eleven-ye…

    Oualid Mouaness / Lebanon, United States of America, Norway, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • 2 Rooms and a Parlor

    Spring Grant 2013 - Production Stage

    Khalil Suleiman has always preferred to stay away from other people, but after his wife’s death…

    Sherif El Bendary / Egypt, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • 200 Meters

    Spring Grants 2018 - Production Stage

    Mustafa and his wife Salwa come from two Palestinian villages that are only 200 meters apart, b…

    Ameen Nayfeh / Palestine, Jordan, France, Germany, Italy, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Abou Leila

    Spring Grants 2017 - Production Stage

    Algeria, 1994. Terrorist attacks have ravaged the north of the country for the past two years.…

    Amin Sidi-Boumédiène / Algeria, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Adam

    Spring Grants 2018 - Production Stage

    Abla runs a modest local bakery from her home in Casablanca where she lives alone with her 8-ye…

    Maryam Touzani / Morocco, France, Belgium, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • 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

  • Al-Sit

    Fall Grants 2018 - Production Stage

    In a Sudanese cotton-farming village, the old matriarch, Al-Sit, must be consulted for her bles…

    Suzannah Mirghani / Sudan, Qatar / Short Narrative

  • Alam, The Flag

    Spring Grant 2015 - Production Stage

    Palestinian student Tamer doesn’t meddle in politics; at the same time, the memory of his uncle…

    Firas Khoury / Palestine, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Algiers by Night

    Spring Grant 2012 - Production Stage

    The sun sets over the Bay of Algiers. The city walls start to lose their shiny white, making ro…

    Yanis Koussim / Algeria, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Ali, the Goat and Ibrahim

    Fall Grant 2012 - Production Stage

    Ali loves a goat called Nada. Ibrahim, a depressed sound engineer who hears voices he cannot de…

    Sherif El Bendary / Egypt, United Arab Emirates, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Amateurs, Stars and Extras, or the Labor of Love

    Fall Grant 2012 - Production Stage

    Amateurs, Stars and Extras or the labor of love, looks at the invisible work of care through di…

    Marwa Arsanios / Egypt, Lebanon, 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

  • Ayouni

    Fall Grants 2017 - Production Stage

    Bassel was a successful open source developer and hacker in Damascus. Paolo was a well-known pr…

    Yasmin Fedda / Lebanon, United Kingdom, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • Aïcha Bonheur

    Spring Grant 2012 - Production Stage

    Aïcha, a young long-distance runner, is pursuing her Olympic dream. Her brother Omar, a decent…

    Hakim Belabbes / Morocco, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • BOUSSA (THE KISS)

    Fall Grants 2019 - Production Stage

    Meriem and Reda are two young Algerian lovers, who have still not managed to exchange their fir…

    Azedine KASRI / France, Algeria, Qatar / Short Narrative

  • Baby Mine

    Fall Grant 2014 - Production Stage

    When a Middle Eastern man kidnaps his sickly daughter, her mother recruits a dubious neighbour…

    Nour Wazzi / Lebanon, United Kingdom, Qatar / Short Narrative

  • Barzakh (Working Title)

    Fall Grants 2018 - Production Stage

    Mariam and Noura find their old father dead in his house on the outskirts of the city of Ramall…

    Laila Abbas / Palestine, Germany, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Bastardo

    Fall Grant 2011 - Production Stage

    ‘Bastardo’ is the story of Mohsen, ‘the bastard’, whose origins and history are unknown. He was…

    Nejib Belkadhi / Tunisia, France, Qatar / Feature 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

  • 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


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