Film Funding

  • The People

    Fall Grants 2019 - Production Stage

    Mahfod Lakroune, Ahcen Djouzi and Amir Bensaid from the former troupe “Action Culturelle des Tr…

    Rahma Benhamou El Madani / Algeria, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • Perfumed with Mint

    Fall Grants 2021 - Production Stage

    Alaa is a 30-year-old doctor. One day, he receives in his clinic a visit from Mahdy, an old fri…

    Muhammed Hamdy / Egypt, France, Tunisia, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Perhaps What I Fear Does Not Exist

    Spring Grants 2019 -

    “I can’t believe this is happening”, I said to myself when my father’s body failed unexpectedly…

    Corine Shawi / Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • The Photographer

    Fall Grants 2021 - Development Stage

    Maher, a photographer for the Syrian regime, takes photos of deceased military personnel. The r…

    Anas Khalaf / Syria, Germany, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Pillow Secrets

    Fall Grant 2012 - Production Stage

    When she recognises the body of the woman who was her mother, a young woman is drawn violently…

    Jillali Ferhati / Morocco, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Places Of The Soul

    Fall Grant 2015 - Production Stage

    The story of ‘Places Of The Soul’ follows Qatari filmmaker, Hamida on a journey to Antarctica w…

    Hamida Issa / Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • Places of The Soul

    Fall Grants 2018 - Post-Production Stage

    The story of ‘Places Of The Soul’ begins in Ushuaia, Argentina and follows an environmental exp…

    Hamida Issa / Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • Plan 75

    Spring Grants 2022 - Post-Production Stage

    In Japan, the government's antidote for the huge economic burden of a super-greying population…

    Chie Hayakawa / Japan, France, Philippines, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Plastic Flowers‏

    Spring Grants 2018 - Production Stage

    A documentary about the experience of enforced disappearance in the prisons of ISIS told throug…

    Amer Mattar / Syria, Germany, Sweden, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • Playground Chronicles

    Fall Grant 2011 - Production Stage

    Brahim and his family are of Moroccan descent, and live on the grounds of a crane construction…

    Brahim Fritah / France, Qatar, Morocco / Feature Narrative

  • Playtime

    Spring Grant 2012 - Production Stage

    Matthew lives with his mother, an army secretary, in Ahmadi, Kuwait. One night, she leaves him…

    Hamad Al-Tourah / Kuwait, Qatar / Short Narrative

  • Please Pause

    Spring Grants 2024 - Production Stage

    In 'Please Pause', we follow the journey of an 8-year-old boy who, despite his physical appeara…

    Lulwa Al-Thani / Qatar / Short Narrative

  • Plot 35

    Fall Grants 2016 -

    Plot 35 is a place that was never mentioned in my family; it is where my elder sister, who died…

    Eric Caravaca / France, Germany, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • Plum Season

    Spring Grants 2019 - Development Stage

    Nouha, a 16-year-old teenager, lives in a close relationship with her mother. Her father reappe…

    Rim Mejdi / Morocco, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Poisonous Roses

    Fall Grant 2015 -

    Twenty-eight-year-old Taheya works as a washroom cleaner, and lives with her 22-year-old brothe…

    Fawzi Saleh / Egypt, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Polaris

    Spring Grants 2022 - Post-Production Stage

    Hayat, an expert sailor in the Arctic, navigates far from humans and her family’s past in Franc…

    Ainara Vera / France, Greenland, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • The Poster

    Fall Grants 2016 - Production Stage

    A poster appears on the walls of the Palestinian village of Reith, accusing the local women of…

    Suha Arraf / Palestine, France, Germany, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • The President's Cake

    Fall Grants 2023 - Production Stage

    It’s April 26, 1991. Today is “draw day,” which means that schools across Iraq will select stud…

    Hasan Hadi / Iraq, United States of America, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • The President's Visit

    Spring Grants 2016 -

    In a small fishing town, Nino sells soap at his Sultan of Soap shop. When he received a highly…

    Cyril Aris / Lebanon, United States of America, Qatar / Short Narrative

  • Prisoner and Jailer

    Spring Grants 2018 - Production Stage

    The story of two contrasting Libyans, one a key official in the former regime, the other one of…

    Muhannad Lamin / Libya, Qatar / Short Narrative