Film Funding

  • AND STILL I RISE

    Fall Grants 2024 - Development Stage

    Aravane Rézaï grew up in a world where everything was a battle, both on and off the court. As t…

    Djanis Moustapha Bouzyani / Morocco, France, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • Amara

    Fall Grants 2024 - Development Stage

    "Darine, a vibrant woman in her mid-thirties, works at a small, politicised radio station in Be…

    Michelle Keserwany / Lebanon, France, Denmark, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Ancestral Visions of the Future

    Fall Grants 2024 - Post-Production Stage

    At the heart of this cinematic ode lies the director’s biographical journey—a deeply personal e…

    Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese / France, Germany, Lesotho, Saudi Arabia, Qatar / Feature Experimental or Essay

  • B.A.H.R Alphabet

    Fall Grants 2024 - Production Stage

    This is a film about time, plastic floating underwater, tiny sparkling jellyfish, legends, inte…

    Sabine El Chamaa / Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • BEFORE THE DAY BREAKS

    Fall Grants 2024 - Production Stage

    Nour is a Pakistani heavyweight truck driver in his thirties who lives in Qatar, miles away fro…

    Amal Al-Muftah / Qatar / Short Narrative

  • Bel Falastini

    Fall Grants 2024 - Production Stage

    "Jamil Atrash was born in a refugee camp in the 1950s. Over the course of his life, he built a…

    Obada Jarbi / Qatar / Short Documentary

  • Burden

    Fall Grants 2024 - Development Stage

    Influencer Omar struggles to promote a line of recreational oxygen cans during an appearance on…

    Mohammed D. Fakhro / Qatar / Short Narrative

  • Camera Obscura

    Fall Grants 2024 - Development Stage

    "Set towards the end of the 1883 cholera epidemic and the onset of the British protectorate in…

    Viola Shafik / Egypt, Germany, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Dance the Night

    Fall Grants 2024 - Production Stage

    Algeria, 1993. In a small village in Kabylia, shy six-year-old Ayoub reluctantly accompanies th…

    Mohamed Megdoul / Algeria, France, Qatar / Short Narrative

  • Demons to Diamonds

    Fall Grants 2024 - Production Stage

    "In the towering labyrinth of steel and glass that is La Défense, the business district of Pari…

    Valentin Noujaïm / Lebanon, France, Switzerland, Canada, Italy, Qatar / Short Narrative

  • Exile

    Fall Grants 2024 - Post-Production Stage

    "In an industrial world scarred by tragedy, Mohamed, a worker at the country’s largest steel fa…

    Mehdi Hmili / Tunisia, France, Luxembourg, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Fatna a Woman Named Rachid

    Fall Grants 2024 - Post-Production Stage

    "In the National Archives of the Kingdom of Morocco, thousands of files await inventory, includ…

    Helene Harder / Morocco, France, Belgium, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • Finding Oppo

    Fall Grants 2024 - Production Stage

    Mamun, 15, is not like other teenagers. When his phone—an Oppo—is stolen, his father, Mourad, r…

    Youssef Michraf / Morocco, France, Qatar / Short Narrative

  • The Good Spirit

    Fall Grants 2024 - Development Stage

    "Noor, a 22-year-old strong-willed resident of Gaza, discovers an injured stray dog and brings…

    Razan Madhoon / Palestine, United Kingdom, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • IN MEMORY OF TIMES TO COME

    Fall Grants 2024 - Production Stage

    Thirty years after an eco-apocalypse, Alia and her husband Elias lead a peaceful life in a rest…

    Larissa Sansour / Palestine, Denmark, Malta, United Kingdom, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • The Last Shore

    Fall Grants 2024 - Post-Production Stage

    In January 2017, a video of a young Gambian man drowning in Venice’s Grand Canal went viral on…

    Jean-François Ravagnan / Belgium, France, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • Life After Siham

    Fall Grants 2024 - Development Stage

    "‘Life After Siham’ tells the story of Namir, a 40-year-old filmmaker, and his journey through…

    Namir Abdel Messeeh / Egypt, France, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • Love-45

    Fall Grants 2024 - Production Stage

    "Walid, an overweight Lebanese man, has been caught in a destructive spiral since his teenage y…

    Anas Khalaf / Syria, France, Switzerland, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • A Lover's Manifesto

    Fall Grants 2024 - Production Stage

    "‘A Lover’s Manifesto’ is a history of Beirut, spanning from its inception as a modern city in…

    Alfred Tarazi / Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Experimental or Essay

  • MINKAFF

    Fall Grants 2024 - Production Stage

    "In the Iraqi desert, a group of Qatari men, including Fahad, are nearing the end of a falcon h…

    SM Al Thani / Qatar / Feature Narrative