Film Funding

  • Atlantide

    Spring Grants 2020 - Post-Production Stage

    In Venice between the gondolas, canals and palaces, tourists pour in as residents head out. Loc…

    Yuri Ancarani / Italy, France, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • The Blue Star

    Spring Grants 2018 -

    It all happened one dark night. The Man was tired of being a stranger, tired of being insulted…

    Valentin Noujaïm / Lebanon, France, Qatar / Short Documentary

  • 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

  • The Dam

    Fall Grants 2018 - Production Stage

    Sudan, near the Merowe Dam. Maher works in a traditional brickyard fed by the waters of the Nil…

    Ali Cherri / France, Sudan, Lebanon, Germany, Serbia, Qatar / Feature Experimental or Essay

  • The Land Was Well Past its Zenith

    Fall Grants 2023 - Production Stage

    The film is a short experimental essay that wanders the streets of Beirut in 2024, five years a…

    Rita Mahfouz / Lebanon, Qatar / Short Experimental or Essay

  • L’mina

    Spring Grants 2023 - Production Stage

    The film is set in Jerada, a former mining town in northeast Morocco that experienced its golde…

    Randa Maroufi / France, Morocco, Italy, United Arab Emirates, Qatar / Short Experimental or Essay

  • Mother, I Am Suffocating. This Is My Last Film About You

    Fall Grants 2018 -

    The wastelands and crowded streets of an African country are traversed by a woman bearing a woo…

    Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese / Lesotho, Germany, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • Playground

    Spring Grants 2023 - Production Stage

    Inspired by real-life events and their own experiences, young video game creators seek to make…

    Mohamed Mesbali / France, Qatar / Short Documentary

  • 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