Film Funding

  • Musk

    Fall Grants 2016 - Production Stage

    After giving up a promising career in museum management to attend to his ailing father, Ahmed s…

    Humaid Alsuwaidi / United Arab Emirates, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Mustang

    Fall Grant 2014 - Post-Production Stage

    A village by the Black Sea, far from Istanbul. When they play a game in which they sit on boys’…

    Deniz Gamze Ergüven / Turkey, France, Germany, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • My Brother

    Fall Grant 2011 - Post-Production Stage

    An artist and painter in his 40s, Mo Bensalah is a Moroccan immigrant’s son. We see his essence…

    Kamal El Mahouti / Morocco, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • My Dad Is Not Dead

    Spring Grants 2020 - Post-Production Stage

    Malik and his father Mehdi live in a funfair where they work as handymen. One day, Mehdi offers…

    Adil El Fadili / Morocco, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • My Little One

    Spring Grants 2018 - Production Stage

    Sarah, a 35-year-old Belgian woman of Moroccan descent, longs to become a mother and start a fa…

    Kadija Saidi Leclere / Morocco, Belgium, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Nawara

    Spring Grant 2013 - Development Stage

    Nawara, a woman in her 20s, works as a housemaid in the home of Ossama Bey and his family, who…

    Hala Khalil / Egypt, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Nezouh

    Fall Grants 2019 -

    During the Syrian conflict in Damascus, a missile destroys the ceiling of Zeina’s house. She is…

    Soudade Kaadan / Syria, Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Night in a Glass of Water

    Spring Grants 2020 - Development Stage

    Northern Lebanon, summer of 1958—in a small village in the ancient Christian Qadisha Valley, ma…

    Carlos Chahine / France, Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Noche De Fuego

    Fall Grants 2019 - Post-Production Stage

    In a mountain town, where corn and poppies grow, the girls sport boyish haircuts and have hidin…

    Tatiana Huezo / Mexico, Germany, Brazil, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Normal

    Spring Grant 2011 - Post-Production Stage

    When the Arab Spring began in Tunisia and Egypt, Fouzi gathered a group of actors to show them…

    Merzak Allouache / Algeria, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Northern Wind

    Fall Grant 2014 - Production Stage

    Marcel, a worker in a French shoe factory, lives a simple life between family, fishing and the…

    Walid Mattar / Tunisia, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Noura's Dream

    Fall Grants 2017 - Production Stage

    Noura meets the love of her life, Lassaad, while her husband, Sofiane, is in jail. She raises h…

    Hinde Boujemaa / Tunisia, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Omar La Fraise

    Fall Grants 2019 - Production Stage

    Omar Zerrouki, better known by his street name Omar la Fraise, is an old school gangster. Force…

    Elias Belkeddar / Algeria, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • One Week Ago, Today

    Spring Grant 2012 - Development Stage

    Off the coast of a small fishing town in the south of Lebanon, a man in his 40s is found uncons…

    Rania Attieh, Daniel Garcia / Lebanon, United States of America, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • The Orphanage

    Spring Grants 2019 - Post-Production Stage

    'The Orphanage' is set in Kabul in the late 1980s. 15-year-old Qodrat lives on the streets and…

    Shahrbanoo Sadat / Afghanistan, Denmark, Luxembourg, France, Germany, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Our Madness

    Spring Grants 2017 - Post-Production Stage

    Lucy is hospitalized in a psychiatric hospital in Mozambique. She dreams about her little son,…

    João Viana / Portugal, Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Papicha

    Spring Grants 2017 - Production Stage

    Algeria, 1990s—Nedjma is a free-spirited and independent young student. She refuses to allow th…

    Mounia Meddour / Algeria, France, Belgium, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Parijat

    Spring Grant 2014 - Development Stage

    'Parijat' is an enthralling drama that explores a Qatari woman's efforts to save her family's t…

    Hend Fakhroo / Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Paris the White

    Spring Grant 2015 -

    Aicha married Nour in 1962, the year of Algerian independence. Later, Nour went to work in Fran…

    Lidia Terki / Algeria, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Passerby

    Spring Grants 2019 - Production Stage

    After spending unfruitful years studying medicine in the former Soviet Union, Adnan decided to…

    Ameer Fakher Eldin / Syria, Qatar / Feature Narrative