Film Funding

  • Let the Earth Burn

    Fall Grants 2022 - Development Stage

    Despite getting excellent results, recent police academy graduate Kenza is posted to a remote s…

    Sofia Alaoui / France, Qatar / TV Series

  • Liborio

    Fall Grants 2019 - Post-Production Stage

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

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

  • Light Sounds

    Fall Grant 2014 - Post-Production Stage

    This gentle tale of workers at a mosque reminds us that every face might hide an unrecognised t…

    Karem Kamel / Qatar / Short 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

  • Little Man

    Spring Grants 2024 - Production Stage

    On the edges of the Sahara Desert, in a small Moroccan village afflicted by drought, six-year-o…

    Hajri Gachouch / France, Qatar / Short 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 - Post-Production Stage

    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

  • Look at Me

    Spring Grant 2015 -

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

    Nejib Belkadhi / Tunisia, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Lost Country

    Spring Grants 2023 - Post-Production Stage

    Serbia, 1996. During the student demonstrations against Milosević’s regime, 15-year-old Stefan…

    Vladimir Perišić / France, Serbia, Luxembourg, Croatia, 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

  • Machtat

    Fall Grants 2022 - Post-Production Stage

    In the small town of Mahdia, Tunisia, live Fatma and her two daughters, Najeh and Waffeh. They…

    Sonia Ben Slama / Tunisia, Lebanon, France, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • 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

  • Made in Qatar at D’reesha Programme 1 & 4 - Kashta

    Fall Grant 2015 - Production Stage

    Out in the quiet desert, a father teaches his sons how to hunt, but a careless struggle between…

    A.J. Al Johara Al Thani / Qatar / Short 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Manity

    Spring Grants 2021 - Production Stage

    On a calm sunny day, Firas, an 11-year-old boy, accompanies his father Tayseer and his father’s…

    Hussen Ibraheem / Lebanon, France, Qatar / Short Narrative

  • Mariam

    Spring Grant 2013 - Production Stage

    Ever since she attended the Hajj with her grandmother, Mariam has covered her head, but when Fr…

    Faiza Ambah / France, Qatar, Saudi Arabia / Short Narrative

  • Marie & Jolie

    Spring Grants 2024 - Production Stage

    Marie, a 45-year-old pastor of Cameroonian origin, has been living in Tunisia for 15 years. She…

    Erige Sehiri / France, Tunisia, Qatar / Feature Narrative