Film Funding

  • White Sun

    Fall Grant 2014 - Production Stage

    When his father dies, anti-regime partisan Chandra must travel to his remote mountain village a…

    Deepak Rauniyar / Nepal, United States of America, Netherlands, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Who Do I Belong To

    Spring Grants 2019 - Production Stage

    Aicha, a Tunisian mother gifted with prophetic dreams, lives in a rural farm with her husband B…

    Meryam Joobeur / Tunisia, France, Canada, Norway, Saudi Arabia, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • The Wind Blew On

    Fall Grants 2017 - Post-Production Stage

    “Perhaps I’m already dead?” says the child, and no one will confirm if this is true or false. H…

    Katrín Ólafsdóttir / Iceland, Qatar, Spain, France, Chile / Feature Narrative

  • Window

    Fall Grant 2011 - Development Stage

    Baghdad under the American occupation. Iraq is in a power vacuum; anarchy is rife; curfews are…

    Koutaiba Al-Janabi / Iraq, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • The Winter Within

    Fall Grants 2019 - Post-Production Stage

    In Srinagar, Kashmir, Nargis works as a domestic helper for a middle-class family. Her husband,…

    Aamir Bashir / India, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Wooden Rifle

    Fall Grant 2012 - Development Stage

    During the Syrian revolution, 21-year-old Noor tries to escape with his mother to Europe to liv…

    Alfouz Tanjour / Syria, Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Wooden Rifle

    Spring Grant 2013 - Production Stage

    During the Syrian revolution, 21-year-old Noor tries to escape with his mother to Europe to liv…

    Alfouz Tanjour / Syria, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • The Wounded Angel

    Fall Grant 2013 - Production Stage

    Four loosely connected stories set in a small town in Kazakhstan at the beginning of the 90s, a…

    Emir Baigazin / Kazakhstan, France, Germany, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • X Kids

    Fall Grant 2011 - Development Stage

    X kids are children born in Algeria out of wedlock, or as a result of terrorist marriages, ince…

    Safinez Bousbia / Algeria, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • You Have The Night

    Spring Grants 2018 -

    After losing her job as a hostess aboard a ship, Sanja finds herself stranded, with nowhere to…

    Ivan Salatic / Montenegro, Serbia, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • You Will Die at Twenty

    Spring Grants 2016 -

    In a Sudanese village, a mother gives birth to Muzamel, a boy cursed by a Dervish prophecy that…

    Amjad Abu Alala / Sudan, France, Egypt, Germany, Norway, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Yunan

    Spring Grants 2022 - Development Stage

    Munir is a gloomy and disillusioned man who travels from Hamburg to a remote island in the Nort…

    Ameer Fakher Eldin / Syria, Germany, France, Palestine, Italy, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Yunan

    Spring Grants 2024 - Post-Production Stage

    Munir, a renowned Arab author exiled in Germany, is burdened by psychological torment and plagu…

    Ameer Fakher Eldin / Germany, Italy, Canada, Palestine, Jordan, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Zanj Revolution

    Spring Grant 2011 - Production Stage

    While covering community clashes in southern Algeria, Ibn Battuta, a journalist, finds himself…

    Tariq Teguia / Algeria, France, Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Zanka Contact

    Fall Grants 2016 - Production Stage

    Casablanca. Larsen, a self-destructive has-been rocker, meets Rajae, a singer with a golden voi…

    Ismaël El Iraki / Morocco, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • aKasha

    Fall Grants 2016 - Production Stage

    Adnan is a revolutionary war hero whose love for fighting and his AK-47 are rivalled only by hi…

    hajooj kuka / Sudan, South Africa, Germany, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • iPhone Memory

    Fall Grants 2016 - Development Stage

    This docu-fiction uses the device of a stolen iPhone to depict the struggles of several Parisia…

    Mahdi Ali Ali / Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Żejtune

    Spring Grants 2024 - Post-Production Stage

    At 25, Mar feels like life’s already at a dead-end. She dreams of escaping her tiny island home…

    Alex Camilleri / Malta, Germany, Qatar / Feature Narrative