Film Funding

  • '81

    Fall Grants 2019 - Development Stage

    When tasked by officials to pursue entry into the 1981 FIFA Youth World Championships in Austra…

    Dawood Al-Anwari, Ali Al Anssari / Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Al Zubara

    Fall Grants 2019 - Development Stage

    Taking place in Qatar 150 years into the future, Jassim Mohammed, driven by revenge since the a…

    Hamad Al Mansouri / Qatar / TV Series

  • An Unusual Summer

    Fall Grants 2019 - Post-Production Stage

    My father installed a surveillance camera and recorded the scenes in front of the house, contin…

    Kamal Aljafari / Palestine, Germany, Qatar / Feature Experimental or Essay

  • Another Day In Baghdad

    Fall Grants 2019 - Post-Production Stage

    Sara and her neighbours open the doors of their everyday lives for us, in a middle-class distri…

    Maysoon Pachachi / United Kingdom, France, Germany, Kuwait, United Arab Emirates, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Behind Closed Doors

    Fall Grants 2019 - Production Stage

    Qatar. Six-year-old Leila wakes up one morning and finds out that her mother, Sara, is gone. Le…

    Hend Fakhroo / Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Between Two Wars

    Fall Grants 2019 - Post-Production Stage

    Fleeing the Syrian conflict, young Andriy's family unexpectedly land in Ukrainian. Now he helps…

    Alina Gorlova / Ukraine, Latvia, Germany, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • Children And War In Yemen: Child Soldiers

    Fall Grants 2019 - Production Stage

    Within the Yemeni conflict, child-soldiers have become an integral part of the fighting forces.…

    Mariam Al-Dhubhani / Yemen, Qatar / Short Documentary

  • The Flower Men

    Fall Grants 2019 - Development Stage

    ‘The Flower Men’ is a feature and observational-investigative documentary film that explores the…

    Yousra Ishaq / Yemen, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • HOPE

    Fall Grants 2019 - Production Stage

    Facing challenges from life and human pollution, Aqua sets off on a life-changing journey to hi…

    Abdulla Al Jananhi / Indonesia, Qatar / Short Narrative

  • Handala, The Boy Without A Face

    Fall Grants 2019 - Development Stage

    Handala, the refugee Palestinian child, appeared in thousands of political caricatures to shed…

    Mahmoud Kaabour / Germany, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • In A Dream You Saw A Way To Survive And You Were Full Of Joy

    Fall Grants 2019 - Development Stage

    Layal, a young Lebanese girl, finds the gap between her daily life and internal state is growin…

    Remi Itani / Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Just like boys!

    Fall Grants 2019 - Production Stage

    Eya and Sofia, two sisters of ten and twelve years old, are sent to the local grocery store by…

    Amel Guellaty / Tunisia, Qatar / Short Narrative

  • Kashkash

    Fall Grants 2019 - Production Stage

    In a region torn apart by tradition, modernity, war, geopolitical spheres of influence, migrati…

    Lea Najjar / Lebanon, Germany, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • The Kiss

    Fall Grants 2019 - Production Stage

    Meriem and Reda are two young Algerian lovers, who have still not managed to exchange their fir…

    Azedine KASRI / France, Algeria, Qatar / Short Narrative

  • Liborio

    Fall Grants 2019 - Post-Production Stage

    Liborio is a peasant who gets lost in a hurricane and takes shelter in a cave. When his townshi…

    Fernando Martinez Sosa / Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • The Life of Abdulla (working title)

    Fall Grants 2019 - Development Stage

    In these ten 25-minute episodes, we’ll take a journey through the life of Abdulla and other ren…

    Abdulla Al Abdulla / Qatar / TV Series

  • Lonely Rock

    Fall Grants 2019 - Post-Production Stage

    Fidel is a fifty-year-old llama herder living in a sparsely populated community in the Argentin…

    Alejandro Telemaco Tarraf / Argentina, Mexico, United Kingdom, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • MICA

    Fall Grants 2019 - Post-Production Stage

    12-year-old Saïd (Mica) sells grocery bags in souks. He lives with his mother and ailing father…

    Ismaël Ferroukhi / France, Morocco, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Mehdi

    Fall Grants 2019 - Production Stage

    Mehdi, Vessale and M’Barek are three thugs based in Aubervilliers. Mehdi, 30, lives alone with…

    Yassine Qnia / France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Meskoun

    Fall Grants 2019 - Development Stage

    While attempting to enter Europe, Lotfi Meskini drowns with seven other unfortunate illegal imm…

    Hicham Lasri / Morocco, Lebanon, Tunisia, Egypt, Qatar / TV Series