Film Funding

  • Wajib

    Spring Grants 2017 - Post-Production Stage

    Shadi returns to his hometown to help his father hand-deliver his sister’s wedding invitations.…

    Annemarie Jacir / Palestine, United Arab Emirates, France, Switzerland, Norway, Colombia, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • The Wake

    Spring Grants 2018 - Production Stage

    In the midst of night, Samaa, an old woman and her pubescent son Sari are at odds on the approp…

    Zahed Bata / Jordan, Qatar / Short Narrative

  • Wallay

    Fall Grants 2016 - Post-Production Stage

    When 13-year-old Ady gets himself into trouble in a French suburb, his father decides to send h…

    Berni Goldblat / France, Burkina Faso, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Weldi

    Spring Grants 2017 - Production Stage

    A Tunisian couple are nearing retirement age, but times are hard, and money is tight. The life…

    Mohamed Ben Attia / Tunisia, France, Belgium, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • When We're Born

    Spring Grant 2011 -

    A revolution has shaped the nation, and the dreamscapes of three Egyptians are interconnected i…

    Tamer Ezzat / Egypt, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Where Did I Leave My Face?

    Fall Grants 2018 - Development Stage

    Ali, originally from Jerusalem, lives in Paris with his girlfriend, Julie. He is constantly tra…

    Ramzi Maqdisi / Palestine, France, Germany, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Where Do We Go Now?

    Spring Grant 2011 - Post-Production Stage

    As sectarian conflict looms over a village in the Lebanese countryside, women of different reli…

    Nadine Labaki / Lebanon, France, Italy, Egypt / Feature Narrative

  • White Building

    Spring Grants 2020 - Post-Production Stage

    Raised in Phnom Penh’s landmark tenement—the White Building—20-year-old Samnang and two friends…

    Kavich Neang / Cambodia, France, China, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • 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

  • The Wind Blew On

    Fall Grants 2017 - Post-Production Stage

    A boy is on a journey. Things have strayed from their course without anyone knowing why. The un…

    Katrín Ólafsdóttir / Iceland, Qatar / Feature Experimental or Essay

  • 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

    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

  • 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

  • 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 - Post-Production Stage

    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 - Production Stage

    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

  • A Young Girl At A Window

    Fall Grants 2019 - Production Stage

    Clara is a young French actress who decides to leave the overcast sky and the aggressiveness of…

    Mahdi Ali Ali / Qatar / Short 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