Film Funding

  • The Return

    Fall Grant 2015 - Production Stage

    Taysir, a historian in his fifties, has settled in the French city of Marseille with his wife M…

    Meyar Al-Roumi / France, Germany, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • The Return Of The Prodigal Son

    Fall Grants 2023 - Production Stage

    Cairo 2009. Back from the army, Salem, 25, joins his family in Cairo’s rag-picking district, ho…

    Rani Massalha / Egypt, Tunisia, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Return to Seoul

    Spring Grants 2022 - Post-Production Stage

    On an impulse to reconnect with her origins, Freddie, 25, returns to South Korea for the first…

    Davy Chou / France, Germany, Belgium, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Revenge Knows Nothing

    Spring Grants 2020 - Production Stage

    Unfortunately, we live in a world filled with injustice and selfish human actions. 'Revenge Kno…

    Abdulaziz Khashabi, Abdulla Al Janahi / Qatar / Short Narrative

  • Revenge Knows Nothing

    Fall Grants 2020 - Post-Production Stage

    Unfortunately, we live in a world filled with injustice and selfish human actions. 'Revenge Kno…

    Abdulaziz Khashabi, Abdulla Al Janahi / Qatar / Short Narrative

  • A Reverence for Spiders

    Fall Grant 2011 - Development Stage

    New York-based imam Omar Metwally develops an unlikely friendship with the homeless teenager wh…

    Faiza Ambah / Saudi Arabia, United States of America, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • The Revolution

    Fall Grants 2023 - Post-Production Stage

    On 1 February 2021, a military coup in Myanmar overthrew the democratically elected government.…

    Min Min Hein / Myanmar, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • Rey

    Fall Grant 2015 - Post-Production Stage

    In 1860, a 35-year-old Frenchman explores Araucania, an autonomous region of southern Chile. Th…

    Niles Atallah / Chile, France, Netherlands, Germany, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • A Rifle and a Bag

    Fall Grants 2019 -

    Somi and her husband Sukhram met and fell in love while fighting in the Naxalite commando, the…

    Cristina Hanes, Arya Rothe, Isabella Rinaldi / India, Romania, Italy, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • The Rise of the Gulf / Beyond Black Gold

    Spring Grant 2013 - Production Stage

    Two films to tell the incredible tale of the metamorphosis of the Gulf’s emirates over the cour…

    Frédéric Compain / France, Qatar, Kuwait / Feature Documentary

  • Rise of the Mad Cat

    Fall Grants 2020 - Production Stage

    In a wasteland, Chimbir the stray cat walks through garbage-filled alleyways, one of many hungr…

    Meshaal Alabdulla, Ibrahim Alabdulla / Qatar / Web Series

  • Rising up at Night

    Spring Grants 2023 - Post-Production Stage

    Kinshasa, the capital city of 17 million people, is plunged into darkness and insecurity as its…

    Nelson Makengo / Congo, Democratic Republic of the, Belgium, Germany, Burkina Faso, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • River of Toads

    Fall Grants 2022 - Post-Production Stage

    A sensorial portrait that follows the traditional healer Francisca Hernandez, an inhabitant of…

    Juan Carlos Núñez Chavarría / Mexico, Qatar / Feature Documentary or Essay

  • Riverbed

    Fall Grants 2016 - Production Stage

    Riverbed tells the story of Salma and her returning daughter Thuraya, and their attempt to pres…

    Bassem Breche / Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Road Trip

    Spring Grants 2024 - Development Stage

    Khammar, a 72-year-old garage owner in Vaulx-en-Velin, a suburb of Lyon, considers his garage h…

    LINDA QIBAA / Morocco, France, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • A Road to Damascus

    Spring Grants 2019 - Development Stage

    Based on Meedo’s novel of the same title. A bus carrying immigrant farmers is gunned down just…

    Meedo Taha / Lebanon, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Road to La Paz

    Spring Grant 2015 - Post-Production Stage

    Thirty-five-year-old Sebastián’s greatest passions are his old Peugeot 505 and the prog-rock ba…

    Francisco Varone / Argentina, Netherlands, Germany, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • The Road to Mosul

    Spring Grants 2016 -

    Mosul, 2014. Ten-year-old Zaineb and her 14-year-old brother, Yousif escape after ISIS militia…

    Yahya Al Allaq / Iraq, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • The Rooftops

    Fall Grant 2012 - Production Stage

    Algiers. An overcrowded city with endless traffic jams, chaotic crowds, rundown buildings, old…

    Merzak Allouache / Algeria, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Roqia

    Fall Grants 2022 - Production Stage

    In 1993, after a car crash leaves Ahmed with amnesia, he returns to his village, where not…

    Yanis Koussim / Algeria, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative