Film Funding

  • In Vitro

    Fall Grants 2018 -

    In a converted nuclear reactor, 70-year-old Dunia, the dying founder of a hi-tech orchard, pass…

    Larissa Sansour / Palestine, Switzerland, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • In the Shade of a Royal Palace (Dwellers of the Cabins)

    Fall Grants 2023 - Development Stage

    Through her relationship with her musician father, Hend tries to discover the history of her pe…

    Hend Bakr / Egypt, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • 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

  • James Dean and Me

    Spring Grant 2013 - Development Stage

    In 1967, in the shadow of the looming Arab-Israeli War, a Palestinian teenager watches James De…

    Sameh Zoabi / Palestine, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Janitou

    Fall Grant 2015 -

    In Algeria in the mid-1980s, during a period of intense political and social unrest, the Bollyw…

    Amine Hattou / Algeria, Germany, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • Joint Possession

    Spring Grants 2017 - Post-Production Stage

    Tangier topography is in turmoil. Pharaonic real estate projects surround the Mansouria, a land…

    Leila Kilani / Morocco, France, United Arab Emirates, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • The Journey

    Spring Grants 2016 -

    Baghdad, 30 December, 2006. Sara, an unassuming young woman, enters Baghdad’s central train sta…

    Mohamed Jabarah Al Daradji / Iraq, United Kingdom, France, Netherlands, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Kashta

    Fall Grants 2016 -

    Out in the beautiful quiet of the windswept dunes, a man teaches his young sons the traditional…

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

  • The Key

    Fall Grants 2016 - Production Stage

    Fathi Moftah, a child refugee, is obsessed with collecting keys. One day, while he is working a…

    Ghassan Jaradat / Jordan, Germany, Qatar / Short Narrative

  • The Key

    Spring Grants 2020 - Production Stage

    Moshe and Elza, an Israeli couple, are awoken by the cries of their 6-year-old girl, Edina, who…

    Rakan Mayasi / Palestine, Belgium, Qatar, France / Short Narrative

  • Ladder to Damascus

    Spring Grant 2011 - Production Stage

    Ghalia moves to Damascus to study acting and rents a room in a traditional courtyard house, whe…

    Mohamad Malas / Syria, Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Lamb

    Fall Grant 2013 - Production Stage

    As ‘Lamb’ opens, nine-year-old Ephraïm (an affecting As ‘Lamb’ opens, nine-year-old Ephraïm (an…

    Yared Zeleke / France, Ethiopia, Germany, Norway, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Land

    Fall Grant 2013 -

    The Denetclaws are a Native American family who live on the Prairie Wolf Indian Reservation. Ne…

    Babak Jalali / United Kingdom, Italy, France, Netherlands, Mexico, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • The Last Days of R.M.

    Spring Grants 2022 - Production Stage

    R.M. is a writer threatened with death in 1990’s Algeria. He decides to go into exile in France…

    Amin Sidi-Boumédiène / France, Belgium, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • The Last Displaced

    Spring Grants 2020 - Production Stage

    Fadi is a volunteer accompanied by Iraqi Forces. He lost communication with his family once ISI…

    Muhannad Al Sudany / Iraq, Qatar / Short Narrative

  • The Last Land

    Spring Grant 2014 - Production Stage

    Evangelina and Amancio, an elderly couple, live out their lives on an isolated hill. Evangelina…

    Pablo Lamar / Paraguay, Netherlands, Chile, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Last Words

    Spring Grants 2024 - Development Stage

    After losing her young brother in a chemical factory blast, 18-year-old Nour develops strange p…

    Antoine Waked / Lebanon, Canada, Qatar / TV Series

  • 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

  • Layla In Dreamland

    Spring Grants 2022 - Production Stage

    Layla is a 60-year-old refugee relocated to the seaside town of Margate with her undocumented g…

    Celine Cotran / United Kingdom, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Les Enfants Terribles

    Fall Grants 2020 - Post-Production Stage

    In Keskincik, a village situated near the Syrian border of Turkey, a young man, Mahmut wishes t…

    Ahmet Necdet Cupur / France, Germany, Turkey, Qatar / Feature Documentary