Film Funding

  • The Last Queen

    Spring Grants 2018 - Production Stage

    It is the year 1516. Algiers is a small Arabian-Berber republic, suffocated by the Spaniards, w…

    Damien Ounouri / Algeria, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • The Last of Us

    Fall Grant 2015 - Post-Production Stage

    N crosses the desert to North Africa, intending to obtain illegal passage to Europe. After he i…

    Ala Eddine Slim / Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Liborio

    Fall Grants 2019 - Post-Production Stage

    Liborio is a peasant who is lost in a hurricane and takes shelter in a cave. When his township…

    Fernando Martinez Sosa / Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Line of Sight

    Spring Grant 2012 - Post-Production Stage

    The film opens with a single shot showing a confrontation between Laila and Sami. Laila, a 22-y…

    Aseel Mansour / Jordan, United Arab Emirates, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • The Load

    Fall Grants 2017 -

    Vlada works as a truck driver during the NATO bombing of Serbia in 1999. Tasked with transporti…

    Ognjen Glavonić / Serbia, France, Croatia, Iran, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Lonely Rock

    Fall Grants 2019 - Post-Production Stage

    Fidel is a fifty-year-old llama herder living in a sparsely populated community in the Argentin…

    Alejandro Telemaco Tarraf / Argentina, Mexico, United Kingdom, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Long Day's Journey Into Night

    Spring Grants 2018 -

    Luo Hongwu returns to Kaili, the hometown from which he fled several years ago. He begins the s…

    Gan BI / China, France, Taiwan, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Longer Will Be The Night

    Spring Grants 2018 - Development Stage

    Nora learns that the Algerian government is planning to compensate victims of rape from during…

    Latifa Said / Algeria, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Look at Me

    Spring Grant 2015 - Production Stage

    Lotfi, a fortysomething Tunisian immigrant, leads the life of a small-time thug in the Noailles…

    Nejib Belkadhi / Tunisia, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Lust

    Spring Grant 2011 - Post-Production Stage

    Umm Shooq has run away from her wealthy family to marry the man she loves and has settled into…

    Khaled El Hagar / Egypt, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • MICA

    Fall Grants 2019 - Post-Production Stage

    12-year-old Saïd (Mica) sells grocery bags in souks. He lives with his mother and ailing father…

    Ismaël Ferroukhi / France, Morocco, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Madame Courage

    Spring Grant 2015 - Post-Production Stage

    Omar, an unstable and lonely teenager, lives in a slum in the suburbs of the Algerian port city…

    Merzak Allouache / Algeria, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Madmen's Fort

    Spring Grant 2014 - Production Stage

    In 1860, the Algerian Sahara is coveted by the colonial powers of the time, who dream of it as…

    Narimane Mari / Algeria, France, Greece, Germany, Switzerland, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • T​he Maiden’s Pond

    Fall Grants 2016 - Production Stage

    ‘The Maiden’s Pond’ tells the story of two women trying to maintain and negotiate their lives w…

    Bassem Breche / Lebanon, Germany, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Mama, Where Are You?

    Fall Grants 2018 - Development Stage

    Abbas is a 37-year-old bachelor who still lives with his parents in Kuwait. Passive, immature,…

    Meqdad Al-Kout / Kuwait, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Man Without a Cellphone

    Fall Grant 2010 - Post-Production Stage

    A humorous, sharp take on the social milieu of a Palestinian village inside Israel. Jawdat just…

    Sameh Zoabi / Belgium, France, Palestine, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • A Man of Honor

    Fall Grant 2010 - Post-Production Stage

    Set in Lebanon and Jordan, ‘A Man of Honor’ is a story of passion, betrayal and the many facets…

    Jean-Claude Codsi / Lebanon, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Marjoun and the Flying Headscarf

    Fall Grant 2012 - Development Stage

    Marjoun is 17 years old and an outsider in her home of Little Rock, Arkansas. While her father…

    Susan Youssef / Lebanon, Netherlands, United States of America, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Me Myself and Murdoch

    Fall Grant 2012 - Development Stage

    Ahmad is a 22-year-old Palestinian from a conservative Muslim family in Hebron. With his friend…

    Yahya Alabdallah / Palestine, Jordan, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Mediterranea

    Fall Grant 2014 - Post-Production Stage

    As ‘Mediterranea’ opens in Algeria, Ayiva and his friend Abas climb onto a truck packed to burs…

    Jonas Carpignano / Italy, France, Germany, Qatar / Feature Narrative


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