Film Funding

  • What's Your Story? Part I

    Fall Grant 2011 - Production/Post-Production Stage

    Jamal, a Palestinian citizen of Israel, meets five young Israelis with differing ideological pe…

    Jamal Khalaile, Pauline Carbonnier / Palestine, France, Qatar / Feature Experimental or Essay

  • Where Did I Leave My Face?

    Fall Grants 2018 - Development Stage

    Ali, originally from Jerusalem, lives in Paris with his girlfriend, Julie. He is constantly tra…

    Ramzi Maqdisi / Palestine, France, Germany, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Where Do We Go Now?

    Spring Grant 2011 - Post-Production Stage

    As sectarian conflict looms over a village in the Lebanese countryside, women of different reli…

    Nadine Labaki / Lebanon, France, Italy, Egypt / Feature Narrative

  • Whether the Weather is Fine

    Fall Grants 2020 - Post-Production Stage

    ‘Whether the Weather is Fine’ follows Miguel after he wakes up in the chaos of Typhoon Haiyan,…

    Carlo Francisco Manatad / Philippines, France, Singapore, Germany, Indonesia, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Whispering Sands

    Spring Grants 2016 -

    A Canadian woman of Arab descent undertakes a trip and hires a guide to help her find a specifi…

    Nacer Khemir / Tunisia, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Who Do I Belong To

    Spring Grants 2019 - Production Stage

    Aicha, a Tunisian mother gifted with prophetic dreams, lives in a rural farm with her husband B…

    Meryam Joobeur / Tunisia, France, Canada, Norway, Saudi Arabia, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • The Wind Blew On

    Fall Grants 2017 - Post-Production Stage

    “Perhaps I’m already dead?” says the child, and no one will confirm if this is true or false. H…

    Katrín Ólafsdóttir / Iceland, Qatar, Spain, France, Chile / Feature Narrative

  • The Winter Within

    Fall Grants 2019 - Post-Production Stage

    In Srinagar, Kashmir, Nargis works as a domestic helper for a middle-class family. Her husband,…

    Aamir Bashir / India, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • The Woman I Never Called Mum

    Fall Grants 2022 - Development Stage

    Because I was born out of wedlock, my birth was kept secret initially. I was raised by my aunt…

    Sabrina Idiri Chemloul / Algeria, France, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • The Wounded Angel

    Fall Grant 2013 - Production Stage

    Four loosely connected stories set in a small town in Kazakhstan at the beginning of the 90s, a…

    Emir Baigazin / Kazakhstan, France, Germany, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • You Will Die at Twenty

    Spring Grants 2016 -

    In a Sudanese village, a mother gives birth to Muzamel, a boy cursed by a Dervish prophecy that…

    Amjad Abu Alala / Sudan, France, Egypt, Germany, Norway, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Yunan

    Spring Grants 2022 - Development Stage

    Munir is a gloomy and disillusioned man who travels from Hamburg to a remote island in the Nort…

    Ameer Fakher Eldin / Syria, Germany, France, Palestine, Italy, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Zaineb Hates the Snow

    Fall Grant 2014 - Production Stage

    2009. Tunisian Nine-year-old Zaineb lost her father. Her mother will rebuild her life with a ma…

    Kaouther Ben Hania / Tunisia, France, Lebanon, United Arab Emirates, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • Zanatany - When Soulless Shrouds Whisper

    Spring Grants 2022 - Production Stage

    Ali, a Comorian widower and father of two teenagers, works in a bookbinding workshop in Majunga…

    Hachimiya AHAMADA / Belgium, France, Qatar / Short Narrative

  • Zanj Revolution

    Spring Grant 2011 - Production Stage

    While covering community clashes in southern Algeria, Ibn Battuta, a journalist, finds himself…

    Tariq Teguia / Algeria, France, Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Zanka Contact

    Fall Grants 2016 - Production Stage

    Casablanca. Larsen, a self-destructive has-been rocker, meets Rajae, a singer with a golden voi…

    Ismaël El Iraki / Morocco, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative