Film Funding

  • 1982

    Spring Grant 2015 - Production Stage

    A DFI Inclusive Screening Working in partnership with the Translation and Interpre…

    Oualid Mouaness / Lebanon, United States of America, Norway, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • 2 Rooms and a Parlor

    Spring Grant 2013 - Production Stage

    Khalil Suleiman has always preferred to stay away from other people, but after his wife’s death…

    Sherif El Bendary / Egypt, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • 200 Meters

    Spring Grants 2018 - Production Stage

    Mustafa and his wife Salwa come from two Palestinian villages that are only 200 meters apart, b…

    Ameen Nayfeh / Palestine, Jordan, France, Germany, Italy, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • The 67th Summer

    Spring Grants 2022 - Production Stage

    In 1967 Ali Ragheb, a young man from Cairo, receives a letter from an Austrian girl named Liz—a…

    Abu Bakr Shawky / France, Egypt, Austria, Germany / Feature Narrative

  • Abandon

    Fall Grants 2020 - Production Stage

    A VR 360° short that tells the story of Khalil and Zalfa, a middle-aged couple, and how they sp…

    Farah Shaer / Lebanon, Qatar / Short Experimental or Essay

  • Abu Fanoos

    Fall Grants 2022 - Production Stage

    Nineteen-year-old Khaled drives up to a small, isolated farm in 1980s Qatar where his reclusive…

    Horia El Hadad, Amira Abujbara / Qatar, Morocco / Short Narrative

  • Across the Sea

    Spring Grants 2023 - Production Stage

    Nour, 27, has emigrated illegally to Marseille where and his friends are living off petty crime…

    Saïd Hamich Benlarbi / France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Aisha Can’t Fly Away Anymore

    Spring Grants 2023 - Production Stage

    Aisha, a 26-year-old Somali woman, works as a caregiver for elderly patients. She lives in a ne…

    Morad Mostafa / Egypt, France, Tunisia, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Alam

    Spring Grant 2015 - Production Stage

    Palestinian student Tamer doesn’t meddle in politics; at the same time, the memory of his uncle…

    Firas Khoury / Palestine, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Animalia

    Fall Grants 2021 - Production Stage

    Itto, a young woman from a modest rural background, is slowly adapting to the Moroccan upper-mi…

    Sofia Alaoui / France, Morocco / Feature Narrative

  • Art and Movement

    Spring Grants 2022 - Production Stage

    The aftermath of political unrest, social change and economic growth (and collapse) greatly inf…

    Marwa Mohamed Ahmed / Qatar / Web Series

  • Ashkal

    Fall Grants 2020 - Production Stage

    In the gardens of Carthage, a new district where modern buildings are juxtaposed with abandoned…

    Youssef Chebbi / Tunisia, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Autumn

    Spring Grants 2023 - Production Stage

    'Autumn' is a conceptual romantic narrative of the captivity of the intellectual class in the t…

    Aisha Al-Jaidah / Iran, Qatar / Short Narrative

  • Aya

    Spring Grant 2015 - Production Stage

    Seven-year-old Aya lives in an inner-city neighbourhood of Marseille. Intelligent and obsessed…

    Moufida Fedhila / Tunisia, France, Qatar / Short Narrative

  • Ayouni

    Fall Grants 2017 - Production Stage

    Bassel was a successful open source developer and hacker in Damascus. Paolo was a well-known pr…

    Yasmin Fedda / Lebanon, United Kingdom, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • Aziza

    Fall Grants 2020 - Production Stage

    ‘Aziza’ is a documentary on the place that women occupy in the history of decolonization in Mor…

    Chahine Fellahi / Morocco, Qatar / Short Documentary

  • Aïcha

    Spring Grants 2023 - Production Stage

    How far can we go to break free from our past? Twenty-eight-year-old Aya is an ordinary youn…

    Mehdi M. Barsaoui / France, Tunisia, Italy, Saudi Arabia, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Aïcha Bonheur

    Spring Grant 2012 - Production Stage

    Aïcha, a young long-distance runner, is pursuing her Olympic dream. Her brother Omar, a decent…

    Hakim Belabbes / Morocco, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Baby Mine

    Fall Grant 2014 - Production Stage

    When a Middle Eastern man kidnaps his sickly daughter, her mother recruits a dubious neighbour…

    Nour Wazzi / Lebanon, United Kingdom, Qatar / Short Narrative

  • Bastardo

    Fall Grant 2011 - Production Stage

    ‘Bastardo’ is the story of Mohsen, ‘the bastard’, whose origins and history are unknown. He was…

    Nejib Belkadhi / Tunisia, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative