Film Funding

  • 7 Waves

    Fall Grants 2023 - Development Stage

    A magical realist tale inspired by local Arabian Gulf mythology and set in Khaleeji modernism.…

    Hamida Issa / Qatar, Saudi Arabia / Feature Narrative

  • Al Baseer - The Blind Ferryman

    Fall Grants 2023 - Post-Production Stage

    The blind ferryman Ayoub lives with his mother and religious brother in the Iraqi marshes. He a…

    Ali Al-Fatlawi / Iraq, Switzerland, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Beit Byoot

    Fall Grants 2017 -

    Set in a dystopian dollhouse, little Jameela seeks the acceptance of two mean girls. But when s…

    Mayar Hamdan / Jordan, Qatar / Short Narrative

  • The Day I Lost My Shadow

    Spring Grant 2012 - Development Stage

    Sana is a young mother struggling to raise her eight-year-old child in war-torn Syria in 2012.…

    Soudade Kaadan / Syria, Lebanon, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Dirty, Difficult, Dangerous

    Spring Grants 2019 - Production Stage

    Roaming the streets of Beirut searching for metal objects to be recycled, Ahmed, a Syrian refug…

    Wissam Charaf / France, Lebanon, Germany, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Even Donkeys Have Remorse

    Spring Grant 2011 - Development Stage

    Inside a crumbling old house, Omar spends his days terrified of the outside, while Reem is pass…

    Shirin Abu Shaqra / Lebanon, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • A House in Jerusalem

    Spring Grants 2016 - Development Stage

    Young Rebecca is forced to move with her father from the UK to Jerusalem, in the hopes that a n…

    Muayad Alayan / Palestine, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • I Am Here But You Can't See Me

    Fall Grants 2023 - Production Stage

    In the fictitious city of Beirut lives Viola, a musician and the leader of an underground movem…

    Feyrouz Serhal / Lebanon, Spain, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • IALU: The Field of Dreams

    Fall Grants 2022 - Production Stage

    Living in Phantasma, one can barely see outside beyond its massive walls. Gates seem empty, wit…

    Mostafa Youssef / Egypt, Qatar / Short Narrative

  • The Key

    Fall Grants 2016 - Production Stage

    Fathi Moftah, a child refugee, is obsessed with collecting keys. One day, while he is working a…

    Ghassan Jaradat / Jordan, Germany, Qatar / Short Narrative

  • Ladder to Damascus

    Spring Grant 2011 - Production Stage

    Ghalia moves to Damascus to study acting and rents a room in a traditional courtyard house, whe…

    Mohamad Malas / Syria, Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Language

    Fall Grant 2015 - Production Stage

    Used to reading and printing Braille, a blind man in Baghdad becomes a giant and finds he can “…

    Mortada Gzar / Iraq, Qatar / Short Narrative

  • Last Day at Home

    Spring Grants 2017 - Production Stage

    A 12- year-old boy has just moved to Doha with his parents. To avoid dealing with the changes t…

    Noor Al-Nasr / Qatar / Short 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

  • Miara

    Fall Grants 2022 - Development Stage

    Miara and her father, Ahar, are outcasts by choice, living in the hostile lands of 7th-century…

    Talal Selhami / Morocco, Qatar / TV Series

  • The Mute

    Fall Grants 2017 - Development Stage

    In 1960s Qatar, Mama Looloo lives alone as she builds a spaceship in the middle of her living r…

    Thamer Al-Thani / Qatar / Short Narrative

  • My Love Awaits Me by the Sea

    Fall Grant 2011 - Production Stage

    ‘My Love Awaits Me by the Sea’ is a poetic documentary that narrates the story of its director,…

    Mais Darwazah / Jordan, Palestine, Qatar, Germany / Feature Documentary

  • Night

    Spring Grants 2017 - Production Stage

    While searching for sleepless souls, a storyteller finds a woman standing in front of her door,…

    Ahmad Saleh / Palestine, Jordan, Germany, Qatar / Short Narrative

  • Odd town

    Spring Grants 2022 - Development Stage

    Khaled, a young man, starts his day with his usual morning routine. Before leaving, his father…

    Mohammed Fakhroo / Qatar / Short Narrative

  • Oddity Tales From A Strange Land

    Spring Grants 2020 - Development Stage

    Set in the MENA region, ’Oddity Tales from a Strange Land’ is an episodic TV series, where huma…

    Ahmad Samara / Jordan, Qatar / TV Series