Film Funding

  • 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 Flower Men

    Fall Grants 2019 - Development Stage

    ‘The Flower Men’ is an observational-investigative documentary film that explores the complex r…

    Yousra Ishaq / Yemen, 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 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

  • The Return Of The Jerboas

    Fall Grants 2019 - Development Stage

    Algeria, 2000. Hakim, a young doctor, arrives in the desert. He moves in with Ammar's family wh…

    Amira Géhanne Khalfallah / Algeria, France, 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 Voice Of The Wild

    Fall Grants 2019 - Development Stage

    In the heart of the Sahara live Abreybone and his pals Kiki, Akalaï, Diara, Japonais, and Abin-…

    Dalel Ziour / Algeria, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • 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

  • 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

  • Their Algeria

    Fall Grants 2019 -

    After 62 years of living together, Aïcha and Mabrouk, my grandparents, are separating. They now…

    Lina Soualem / France, Algeria, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • 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 Congo

    Spring Grants 2016 - Post-Production Stage

    'This Is Congo’ is an unblinking, unfiltered look into one of the world’s longest-standing ongo…

    Daniel McCabe / United States of America, Congo, Democratic Republic of the, Canada, United Kingdom, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • 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

  • This Is Not A Drill

    Fall Grants 2019 - Post-Production Stage

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

    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


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