Film Funding

  • Suspended Wives

    Fall Grants 2017 - Production Stage

    After waiting for many years, Ghita, Latifa and Karima decide to turn to the courts in order to…

    Merieme Addou / Morocco, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • Tariq

    Spring Grant 2012 - Production Stage

    A story of a relationship between a teenager and his mother. Tariq decides to test his manhood…

    Alaa Abdel Razek Mosbah / Egypt, Qatar / Short Narrative

  • 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

  • That Which Is Coming

    Spring Grant 2012 - Production Stage

    ‘That Which Is Coming’ is an experimental video installation shot with a Phantom camera. It exp…

    Sophia Al-Maria / Qatar / Short Experimental or Essay

  • The Air And The Worlds

    Fall Grants 2019 - Production Stage

    A contemplative journey of three parts that follow a mute poet named "This Person". In a dreamy…

    Rana Fouad / Egypt, Qatar / Short Experimental or Essay

  • The Alleys

    Fall Grants 2018 - Production Stage

    In a claustrophobic East Amman neighbourhood, where life is dictated by gossip and violence, Al…

    Bassel Ghandour / Jordan, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • The Bath

    Fall Grants 2018 - Production Stage

    When his wife leaves on a business trip, Imed must take care of his 5-year-old son, Hedi, for t…

    Anissa Daoud / Tunisia, France, Qatar / Short Narrative

  • The Bystander

    Fall Grants 2018 - Production Stage

    On a sunny July day in Beirut, Roger, a beloved basketball coach, is on his way to work, proudl…

    Rachel Aoun / Lebanon, Qatar / Short Narrative

  • The Closet Sessions

    Fall Grants 2018 - Production Stage

    'The Closet Sessions' was born when hip-hop artist and director Ahmad “Satti” Ibrahim used to r…

    Ahmad Satti Ibrahim / Jordan / Web Series

  • The Dragon Blood Island

    Fall Grants 2019 - Production Stage

    ‘The Dragon Blood Island’ is a short documentary that focuses on the beauty of what has been de…

    Sufian Abulohom / Yemen, United States of America, Qatar / Short Documentary

  • The Earth Doesn't Move

    Fall Grants 2018 - Production Stage

    In a three-star hotel converted into a reception centre for political refugees, people wait to…

    Yosr Gasmi / Tunisia, France, Italy, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • The Passion According To Andrew

    Spring Grants 2019 - Production Stage

    “I can’t believe this is happening”, I said to myself when my father’s body failed unexpectedly…

    Corine Shawi / Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • The Present

    Spring Grants 2019 - Production Stage

    Yusef is a family man from the West Bank, battling enormous queues at dawn to get to work every…

    Farah Nabulsi / Palestine, Qatar / Short Narrative

  • Theeb

    Spring Grant 2013 - Production Stage

    Arabia, 1916. Theeb [Wolf] lives with his Bedouin tribe in a forgotten corner of the Ottoman Em…

    Naji Abu Nowar / Jordan, United Kingdom, Qatar, United Arab Emirates / Feature Narrative

  • They

    Fall Grant 2014 - Production Stage

    Fourteen-year-old J goes by the pronoun ‘They” and lives with their parents in the suburbs of C…

    Anahita Ghazvinizadeh / Iran, United States of America, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • The Third Hand

    Fall Grant 2012 - Production Stage

    Zineb just passed her baccalaureate. Like all the young girls in the area, she wants to study i…

    Hicham Elladdaqi / Morocco, France, Qatar / Short Narrative

  • This Haunting Memory That Is Not My Own

    Fall Grants 2018 - Production Stage

    A family finds itself violently ripped apart from their native home and thrown into the sea, in…

    Panos Aprahamian / Lebanon, Germany, Qatar / Short Experimental or Essay

  • This Is Not A Drill

    Spring Grants 2019 - Production Stage

    In the wake of a radioactive blast, a young and pregnant couple, Maya and Malik follow instruct…

    Nadia Alkhater / Qatar / Short Narrative

  • Those from the Shore

    Fall Grant 2014 - Production Stage

    Marseille, 2014. Dozens of Armenian asylum seekers try to survive while waiting for their appli…

    Tamara Stepanyan / Lebanon, Armenia, France, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • Timbuktu

    Spring Grant 2013 - Production Stage

    Timbuktu, a historic and multicultural city in the West African nation of Mali, is taken over b…

    Abderrahmane Sissako / France, Mauritania, Qatar / Feature Narrative


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