Film Funding

  • Chibayish 2023

    Fall Grants 2022 - Production Stage

    'In Lieu of What Is' (Chibayish) examines how nature in southern Iraq has been viewed as a harb…

    Alia Farid / Kuwait, Qatar / Short Experimental or Essay

  • Egyptian Jeanne d'Arc

    Spring Grant 2013 - Production Stage

    ‘Egyptian Jeanne d’Arc’ is a creative documentary that explores issues of female emancipation i…

    Iman Kamel / Kuwait, Egypt, Germany, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • The Exchange

    Fall Grants 2020 - Development Stage

    Kuwait. 1988. In two years, the country will be invaded by Iraq, but Farida is currently embroi…

    Nadia Ahmad / Kuwait, Qatar / TV Series

  • J'ai Le Cafard

    Spring Grants 2019 -

    Maryam, a single forty-two-year-old office employee is struggling with keeping up the appearanc…

    Maysaa Almumin / Kuwait, Qatar / Short 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

  • Our River...Our Sky

    Fall Grants 2019 - Post-Production, Post-Production Stage

    Baghdad, 2006. All over the city, people of different religions are being forced out of their h…

    Maysoon Pachachi / United Kingdom, France, Germany, Kuwait, United Arab Emirates, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Playtime

    Spring Grant 2012 - Production Stage

    Matthew lives with his mother, an army secretary, in Ahmadi, Kuwait. One night, she leaves him…

    Hamad Al-Tourah / Kuwait, Qatar / Short Narrative

  • The Rise of the Gulf / Beyond Black Gold

    Spring Grant 2013 - Production Stage

    Two films to tell the incredible tale of the metamorphosis of the Gulf’s emirates over the cour…

    Frédéric Compain / France, Qatar, Kuwait / Feature Documentary

  • Soaring Over Mayhem

    Spring Grants 2017 - Production Stage

    In the brutal lands of northern Syria, 10- year-old bird enthusiast Rami struggles to survive a…

    Abdullah Al-Wazzan / Kuwait, Qatar / Short Narrative