Film Funding

  • Stronger than a Bullet

    Fall Grant 2014 - Production Stage

    Since the Islamic Revolution of 1979, war propaganda has been Iran’s largest industry. In the n…

    Maryam Ebrahimi / Iran, Sweden, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • Suspended Wives

    Fall Grants 2017 - Production Stage

    After waiting for many years, Ghita, Latifa and Karima decide to turn to the courts in order to…

    Merieme Addou / Morocco, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • Tadmor

    Fall Grant 2015 - Post-Production Stage

    Raymond. Youssef. Ali. Saad. Moussa. Rashid. Mahmoud. Elias. Individuals. Together. The Lebanes…

    Monika Borgmann, Lokman Slim / Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • Taste of Cement

    Spring Grant 2015 - Post-Production Stage

    The Lebanese Civil War ended nearly a generation ago, but it remains far from forgotten, stampe…

    Ziad Kalthom / Syria, Lebanon, Germany, United Arab Emirates, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • Terra Firma

    Fall Grant 2013 - Production Stage

    In a small commercial harbour in the south of France, two Moroccan sailors are watching over fe…

    Laurent Aït Benalla / Morocco, France, United Arab Emirates, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • The Disqualified

    Fall Grants 2019 - Post-Production Stage

    Mehrez is a bold personality in a small Tunisian town. At 25 years old, Mehrez decides to enlig…

    Hamza Ouni / Tunisia, France, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • The Dragon Blood Island

    Fall Grants 2019 - Production Stage

    ‘The Dragon Blood Island’ is a short documentary that focuses on the beauty of what has been de…

    Sufian Abulohom / Yemen, United States of America, Qatar / Short Documentary

  • The Earth Doesn't Move

    Fall Grants 2018 - Production Stage

    In a small village in the heart of the Italian Alps, asylum seekers are waiting for the end of…

    Yosr Gasmi / Tunisia, France, Italy, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • The Passion According To Andrew

    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

  • Their Algeria

    Fall Grants 2019 -

    After 62 years of living together, Aïcha and Mabrouk, my grandparents, are separating. They now…

    Lina Soualem / France, Algeria, Switzerland, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • This Is Congo

    Spring Grants 2016 - Post-Production Stage

    'This Is Congo’ is an unblinking, unfiltered look into one of the world’s longest-standing ongo…

    Daniel McCabe / United States of America, Congo, Democratic Republic of the, Canada, United Kingdom, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • Those from the Shore

    Fall Grant 2014 - Production Stage

    Marseille, 2014. Dozens of Armenian asylum seekers try to survive while waiting for their appli…

    Tamara Stepanyan / Lebanon, Armenia, France, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • Trophy

    Fall Grants 2016 - Post-Production Stage

    ‘Trophy’ takes an in-depth look at the multi-billion dollar industry behind big-game hunting, a…

    Christina Clusiau, Shaul Schwarz / United States of America, United Kingdom, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • Underdown

    Fall Grants 2017 - Production Stage

    Moving to Beirut’s anarchic rhythm, ‘Underdown’ follows the struggles of a Palestinian cab driv…

    Sarah Kaskas / Lebanon, Germany, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • Wake Up On Mars

    Fall Grants 2019 - Post-Production Stage

    Furkan, the youngest member of a Roma family living in Sweden, attempts to come to terms with t…

    Dea Gjinovci / Switzerland, France, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • Waves

    Fall Grant 2012 - Post-Production Stage

    Before he came to power, a fortune teller told Hosni Mubarak that he would reach a powerful pos…

    Ahmed Nour / Egypt, Morocco, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • A Way Home

    Fall Grants 2018 - Production Stage

    After years of separation, the filmmaker renews her relationship with her mother, Aïcha, who is…

    Karima Saidi / Morocco, Belgium, France, Qatar / Feature Experimental or Essay

  • We Could Be Heroes

    Fall Grant 2015 - Production Stage

    In the run-up to the 2016 Rio Paralympic Games, Azzedine Nouiri, the world champion in seated s…

    Hind Bensari / Denmark, Morocco, Tunisia, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • We Have Never Been Kids

    Spring Grant 2014 - Post-Production Stage

    Since 2003, Mahmood Soliman has tracked the subjects of his​ ​2003 documentary ‘Living Among Us…

    Mahmood Soliman / Egypt, United Arab Emirates, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • What We Left Unfinished

    Fall Grants 2018 - Post-Production Stage

    'What We Left Unfinished' tells the incredible and mostly true story of five unfinished feature…

    Mariam Ghani / Afghanistan, United States of America, Qatar / Feature Documentary