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The Documentary Film program supports creative documentary films in the Arab region. The program welcomes submissions by Arab directors of feature-length documentary film projects that are in development, production or post-production phases, as well as short and medium-length documentaries in production and post-production.
The Documentary Film program provides annual grants up to USD 10,000 for development grants, up to USD 50,000 for production grants for feature-length films and USD 20,000 for short and medium-length documentaries, and up to USD 25,000 for post-production grants for feature-length films and USD 10,000 for short and medium-length documentaries.
The Documentary Film grant program is open to applications from Arab directors and producers living in the Arab region or the diaspora. A non-Arab producer can apply for a grant provided that the film director is Arab. It is highly recommended that film projects applying to the production and post-production grants have producers attached to them.
Project applications are accepted irrespective of age, years of experience, country of residence, ethnicity, gender, or religion. A film producer is eligible to apply with a maximum of two projects per category per cycle, provided the two projects are not attached to the same director. AFAC will not consider applications submitted by: Members of the AFAC board of trustees, their business partners, or family members.
AFAC staff members, their business partners, or family members. Members of the current year’s reader and juror committees. Applicants with a current open grant.
A director who already has an open grant from AFAC (regardless of whether the contract is in their name or the producer’s name). Recipients of grants in two consecutive years will not be eligible to apply for the next two consecutive years. For example, if you received a grant in 2021 and another one in 2022, you will only be eligible to re-apply in 2025.
Film producers who have an open grant can apply with another project. If they have two open grants, they are not eligible to apply before the completion of one of the projects. If a grantee has received two grants for the same film project, they cannot apply for post-production.
AFAC grants are intended for project production, including research and development phases. They may cover project-related expenses, including but not limited to materials, space or equipment rentals, and fees for artistic and technical labor and collaboration. A director and producer fee of not more than 30% of the total grant amount is also an allowable expense.
If you are hesitant about how this works, you can always contact us with questions before submitting your final budget. Given the high demand for production support, AFAC cannot guarantee that all selected grantees will receive their requested amounts in full. We encourage applicants to diversify their sources of funding whenever possible.
AFAC does not offer mobility grants, but travel expenses that are part of a project’s implementation and/or research may be covered by the grant. AFAC will not provide support retroactively to projects that have already been completed. For projects that have already started, we cover only expenses occurring after the agreement's signature date.
AFAC launches two open calls every year for its different grant programs. The first is open to applications for Creative and Critical Writings, Documentary Film, Performing Arts, and Visual Arts grants. The second call is open to applications for Cinema, Music, Documentary Photography and Training & Regional Events grants.
Each applicant (individual or institution) can only submit one application during each open call. Applications are only accepted through this online form . Applications submitted via regular mail or email will not be considered.
Applicants will receive a confirmation email once their application has been successfully submitted. Please make sure your application is complete with all the requested supporting materials before submitting it. Incomplete applications will not be considered.
We encourage you to read the full application form before applying. Please submit your application 24 hours before the deadline so we can help you in case of any technical difficulties. We will not be able to assist you with any technical issues on the deadline day.
The submission deadline is: 02 april 2026 at 5:00 PM Beirut time (+3 GMT) . You can find a preview of the application here: Documentary Film grant application form for development Documentary Film grant application form for production Documentary Film grant application form for post-production You are required to submit supporting material and samples for the project you are applying for.
Supporting documents are essential to help the reader and juror committees understand your artistic approach as well as the overall feasibility of your project. We will not consider applications without this material and will not contact you about any missing documents or samples. If you are in doubt about what documents to include, please reach out to us before submitting your application.
We are happy to help guide you through this process. Please review the supporting materials checklist . Evaluation and selection process When the call for applications is closed, our grants management team will review all received applications to make sure they are complete and adhere to our guidelines.
Applications that do not meet our eligibility criteria or that are missing required materials will be disqualified. The grants management team will send all eligible applications to an independent committee of readers, who will evaluate them according to our evaluation criteria to arrive at a first selection. The latter will then be sent to an independent jury committee, which will evaluate them according to the same criteria.
The jury committee then meets to discuss the applications and reach a final selection decision. You can find more information about our selection process here . Applicants will also receive an email before the announcement informing them whether or not their application was selected for a grant.
Upon selection, our grants management team will draft an agreement to be signed between AFAC and each grantee. We expect projects to be completed within a maximum of two years from the signature of the grant agreement and any extension should be requested and approved in writing. If you are not granted the requested amount in full, you will be asked to submit an updated budget.
The grants management team is available to help answer any questions and guide you through this process. Grantee reports are a routine part of our grant-making process and help us know more about your project while also learning how to improve our grantmaking process. You will be expected to report on the project’s overall progress as well as on its expenditures through narrative and financial reports.
You will be informed of the types of reports and documents you must submit and can always contact us with questions. Payment conditions and schedule For development grants, the grantee will receive 70% of the grant amount as a first payment. Once the project is completed and the grantee has submitted the deliverables, narrative and financial reports, the remaining 30% will be transferred.
For production grants, grantees will receive 25% of the grant amount as the first payment. When 80% of the first payment has been spent AND the shooting has started, the grantee must submit an interim narrative and financial report to AFAC. Once the report is approved, grantees will receive 60% of the grant total amount as a second payment.
With the submission of the final deliverables and reports, the remaining 15% of the grant total amount will be transferred and the grant will be closed. For post-production grants, grantees will receive 50% of the grant amount as the first payment. Once the project is completed and the grantee has submitted the deliverables, narrative and financial reports, the remaining 50% will be transferred.
AFAC does not own any material or moral rights arising from the supported projects. While grantees are contractually required to indicate AFAC’s support in their project communication, we consider them as natural partners in our pursuit of sustainability for the Arab cultural scene.
Your endorsement and mention of AFAC in media, festivals, platforms, and other avenues help shed light on the importance of our work in supporting arts and culture and allow us to continue assisting future generations of artists. Grantees are also required to provide AFAC with print or digital copies of the final product and/or invitations to the final output events, as well as any related media.
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php on line 177 Morocco United Arab Emirates Egypt Palestine Syria Lebanon Tanzania Tunisia Libya Jordan Yemen Germany Iraq United States France Kuwait Algeria Bahrain South Africa Denmark Saudi Arabia Netherlands Sudan Turkey Qatar Western Sahara Adnane Baraka • Documentary Film • 2018 • Morocco Afraa Batous • Documentary Film • 2015 • Syria Crossing the Seventh Gate Ali Essafi • Documentary Film • 2017 • Morocco Alyaa Musa • Documentary Film • 2017 • Sudan Amer Almatar • Documentary Film • 2015 • Syria Amine Hattou • Documentary Film • 2014 • Algeria Anthony Chidiac • Documentary Film • 2014 • Lebanon Anthony Chidiac • Documentary Film • 2017 • Lebanon Bassam Mortada • Documentary Film • 2018 • Egypt Cyril Aris • Documentary Film • 2016 • Lebanon Dalyah Bakheet • Documentary Film • 2013 • Saudi Arabia Dima El-Horr • Documentary Film • 2017 • Lebanon Dina Naser • Documentary Film • 2018 • Jordan Djamel Kerkar • Documentary Film • 2015 • Algeria In Mansourah, You Separated Us Dorothée Myriam Kellou • Documentary Film • 2018 • Algeria Ekrem Heydo • Documentary Film • 2015 • Syria Erige Sehiri • Documentary Film • 2013 • Tunisia Etab Azzam, Bridgette Auger • Documentary Film • 2016 • Syria Eyas Almokdad • Documentary Film • 2018 • Syria Feras Fayyad • Documentary Film • 2016 • Syria Raise Your Head, You are a proud Egyptian Hala Galal • Documentary Film • 2011 • Egypt El Medestansi (The disqualified) Hamza Ouni • Documentary Film • 2018 • Tunisia Hind Meddeb • Documentary Film • 2018 • Tunisia They Planted Strange Trees Hind Shoufani • Documentary Film • 2018 • Palestine Jumana Manna • Documentary Film • 2017 • Palestine Habib Attia • Documentary Film • 2014 • Tunisia Karim Goury • Documentary Film • 2011 • Egypt The Fifth Resurrection of Farid Khalid Youssef • Documentary Film • 2017 • Egypt Une Maison Pour Buster Keaton Lamine Khodja • Documentary Film • 2018 • Algeria Latifa Doghri • Documentary Film • 2018 • Tunisia Laura Stauth • Documentary Film • 2018 • Egypt Lina • Documentary Film • 2017 • Syria Leïla Chaïbi • Documentary Film • 2018 • Algeria Ibrahim: a Fate to Define Lina Alabed • Documentary Film • 2015 • Palestine We Carve Words in the Earth Mahasen Nasser-Eldin • Documentary Film • 2018 • Palestine Malek Bensmail • Documentary Film • 2015 • Algeria Marouan Omara • Documentary Film • 2014 • Egypt Marwa Zein • Documentary Film • 2016 • Sudan Maya AlKhoury • Documentary Film • 2013 • Syria Mayye Zayed • Documentary Film • 2017 • Egypt Merieme Addou • Documentary Film • 2016 • Morocco Mira Sidawi • Documentary Film • 2018 • Palestine Yaser Kassab • Documentary Film • 2015 • Syria Mohamed Said Ouma • Documentary Film • 2018 • Comoros Myriam Sassine • Documentary Film • 2016 • Egypt Mohamed Slaoui • Documentary Film • 2014 • Morocco The Insomnia of a Serial Dreamer Mohamed Soueid • Documentary Film • 2014 • Lebanon Mohammed Abu Geth • Documentary Film • 2015 • Palestine Mohanad Yaqubi • Documentary Film • 2013 • Palestine Monika Borgmann and Lokman Slim • Documentary Film • 2013 • Lebanon Nadine Salib • Documentary Film • 2013 • Egypt Nahed Awwad • Documentary Film • 2018 • Palestine Naziha Arebi • Documentary Film • 2013 • Libya Who Killed Nabil Fawzy?
The History of Comics in the Middle East Nida Sinnokrot • Documentary Film • 2013 • Palestine Nidal Hassan • Documentary Film • 2017 • Syria Omar El-Khairy • Documentary Film • 2018 • Palestine Ossama Mohammad • Documentary Film • 2013 • Syria Qutaiba Barhamji • Documentary Film • 2018 • Syria Raed Andoni • Documentary Film • 2016 • Palestine Eccomi...
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Here you are) Raed Rafei • Documentary Film • 2015 • Lebanon Rafik Omrani • Documentary Film • 2016 • Tunisia A Comedian in a Syrian Tragedy Rami Farah • Documentary Film • 2016 • Syria Rana Eid • Documentary Film • 2013 • Lebanon Seeing in Between: Samar Yazbek Interviewed Rania Stephan • Documentary Film • 2017 • Lebanon Dima AL-Joundi • Documentary Film • 2016 • Lebanon Ridha Tlili • Documentary Film • 2018 • Tunisia Salim Abu Jabal • Documentary Film • 2014 • Syria 194.
Us, Children of the Camp Samer Abu Qatmeh • Documentary Film • 2016 • Palestine Sarah Fattahi • Documentary Film • 2017 • Syria Sarah Srage • Documentary Film • 2014 • Lebanon Sareen Hairabedian • Documentary Film • 2018 • Jordan This Little Father Obsession Jana Wehbe • Documentary Film • 2015 • Lebanon Talal Derki • Documentary Film • 2015 • Syria Tamara Stepanyan • Documentary Film • 2015 • Lebanon Wael Kadlo • Documentary Film • 2018 • Syria Walid Taya • Documentary Film • 2015 • Tunisia Christian Eid • Documentary Film • 2018 • Lebanon Yahya Abdalla • Documentary Film • 2014 • Jordan The Search for Issam Abdallah Yasser Naeim • Documentary Film • 2014 • Egypt Ziad Kalthoum • Documentary Film • 2013 • Syria Asmae El Moudir • Documentary Film • 2019 • Morocco Dalal Mawad • Documentary Film • 2019 • Lebanon Angie Obeid • Documentary Film • 2019 • Lebanon Zakaria Sedrati • Documentary Film • 2019 • Morocco Rima Samman • Documentary Film • 2019 • Lebanon Omar El-Khairy • Documentary Film • 2019 • Palestine Farah Kassem • Documentary Film • 2019 • Lebanon Mehdi Hmili • Documentary Film • 2019 • Tunisia Bassel Ghandour • Documentary Film • 2019 • Jordan Jumana Manna • Documentary Film • 2019 • Palestine Jihan • Documentary Film • 2019 • Libya Mohamed Sabbah, Danielle Davie • Documentary Film • 2019 • Lebanon Albaqer Jafeer • Documentary Film • 2019 • Iraq Little Palestine: Diary of a Siege Abdallah Al Khatib • Documentary Film • 2019 • Syria Salim Abu Jabal • Documentary Film • 2019 • Syria Intissar Belaid • Documentary Film • 2019 • Tunisia At the Palestinian National Theatre Adam Zuabi • Documentary Film • 2019 • Palestine Ahmed Abed • Documentary Film • 2019 • Iraq After the End of the World Nadim Mishlawi • Documentary Film • 2019 • Lebanon Carole Mansour • Documentary Film • 2019 • Palestine One, two, three, Viva l’Algérie!
Amine Kouti, Samuel Ab • Documentary Film • 2019 • Algeria I Might Not Normally Share This Noura A.
Rahman • Documentary Film • 2019 • Egypt Before the Dying of the Light Ali Essafi • Documentary Film • 2019 • Morocco Nidal Al Dibs • Documentary Film • 2019 • Syria Colette Ghunim • Documentary Film • 2018 • Palestine Marouan Omara • Documentary Film • 2020 • Egypt Karim Sayad • Documentary Film • 2020 • Algeria Cheikh N'diaye • Documentary Film • 2020 • Mauritania Namir Abdel Messeeh • Documentary Film • 2020 • Egypt Nada Riyadh • Documentary Film • 2020 • Egypt Yusef Srouji • Documentary Film • 2020 • Palestine The Day of Wrath: Tales from Tripoli Rania Rafei • Documentary Film • 2020 • Lebanon Sid Ahmed Semiane • Documentary Film • 2020 • Algeria Lina Soualem • Documentary Film • 2020 • Palestine Mohammed Almughanni • Documentary Film • 2020 • Palestine Belhassen Handous • Documentary Film • 2020 • Tunisia Leila Albayaty • Documentary Film • 2020 • Iraq Perhaps What I Fear Does Not Exist Corine Shawi • Documentary Film • 2020 • Lebanon Omar Sfeir • Documentary Film • 2020 • Lebanon Nicolas Khoury • Documentary Film • 2020 • Lebanon Abdessamad El Montassir • Documentary Film • 2020 • Morocco Omar Amiralay - Sorrow, Time, Silence Hala Al-Abdallah • Documentary Film • 2020 • Syria Adnane Baraka • Documentary Film • 2020 • Morocco Karoline Kamel • Documentary Film • 2020 • Egypt Myriam Bouabid • Documentary Film • 2021 • Tunisia Amer Shomali • Documentary Film • 2021 • Palestine Valentin Noujaïm • Documentary Film • 2021 • Lebanon Zahraa Ghandour • Documentary Film • 2021 • Iraq Sally Abobasha • Documentary Film • 2021 • Egypt Amine Hattou • Documentary Film • 2021 • Algeria My Father Killed Bourguiba Fatma Riahi • Documentary Film • 2021 • Tunisia Rand Beiruty • Documentary Film • 2021 • Jordan Alia Haju • Documentary Film • 2021 • Lebanon Amgad Almuhaya • Documentary Film • 2021 • Yemen Amine Sabir • Documentary Film • 2021 • Morocco Hussein Al-Assadi • Documentary Film • 2021 • Iraq Elsadig Mohamed • Documentary Film • 2021 • Sudan Jehan Selim • Documentary Film • 2021 • Egypt Lina Sinjab • Documentary Film • 2021 • Syria Chasing the Dazzling Light Yaser Kassab • Documentary Film • 2021 • Syria Asmahan Bkerat • Documentary Film • 2021 • Jordan In Fields of Words: Conversations with Samar Yazbek Rania Stephan • Documentary Film • 2021 • Lebanon Maher Abi Samra • Documentary Film • 2021 • Lebanon Georges Hachem • Documentary Film • 2021 • Lebanon Omar Malas • Documentary Film • 2021 • Syria Asmae El Moudir • Documentary Film • 2021 • Morocco Muhannad Lamin • Documentary Film • 2021 • Libya Karam Ali • Documentary Film • 2021 • Palestine If The Shadow Were Human, It Would Think Light Was a Myth Ziad Kalthoum • Documentary Film • 2022 • Syria Shapes of Normal Human Beings Salim Mrad • Documentary Film • 2022 • Lebanon Racha Najdi • Documentary Film • 2022 • Lebanon How Many Night, How Many Days?
Alaaeldin Eldajani • Documentary Film • 2022 • Egypt American Dream: The Return of Captain Kabonga • Documentary Film • 2022 • Egypt The Woman I Never Called Mom Sabrina Idiri Chemloul • Documentary Film • 2022 • Algeria Ethel - An Algerian Odyssey Mohamed Siam • Documentary Film • 2022 • Egypt Karim Kassem • Documentary Film • 2022 • Lebanon Madonna Adib • Documentary Film • 2022 • Syria Hind Meddeb • Documentary Film • 2022 • Tunisia Rama Obeid • Documentary Film • 2022 • Jordan Lana Daher • Documentary Film • 2022 • Lebanon Nadim Suleiman • Documentary Film • 2022 • Syria Sareen Hairabedian • Documentary Film • 2022 • Jordan Sonia Ben Slama • Documentary Film • 2022 • Tunisia Samar: Before The Final Picture Aya Yusuf • Documentary Film • 2022 • Egypt Yusef Srouji • Documentary Film • 2022 • Palestine Alex Bakri • Documentary Film • 2022 • Palestine Rama Abdy • Documentary Film • 2023 • Syria Karim Kassem • Documentary Film • 2023 • Lebanon Dilpak Majeed • Documentary Film • 2023 • Iraq The 4 Choices of Albert - A Free Soul Hala Galal • Documentary Film • 2023 • Egypt Kawthar Younis • Documentary Film • 2023 • Egypt Amira Mortada Bayoumi • Documentary Film • 2023 • Egypt Fatima Wardy • Documentary Film • 2023 • Sudan Saif Chida • Documentary Film • 2023 • Tunisia Yousef Hammad • Documentary Film • 2023 • Palestine The Arab Workers Movement Hind Bensari • Documentary Film • 2023 • Morocco Camélia Gadhgadhi • Documentary Film • 2023 • Algeria Mahdi Fleifel • Documentary Film • 2023 • Palestine The Woman I've Never Called Mum Sabrina Idiri Chemloul • Documentary Film • 2023 • Algeria Asmaa Gamal Gafary • Documentary Film • 2023 • Egypt Nicolas Khoury • Documentary Film • 2023 • Lebanon Mayar Hamdan • Documentary Film • 2023 • Palestine Mohammad Ali Atassi • Documentary Film • 2023 • Syria Firas Rebiai • Documentary Film • 2023 • Tunisia How Many Nights How Many Days?
Alaa Dajani • Documentary Film • 2023 • Egypt Zahraa Ghandour • Documentary Film • 2023 • Iraq Amine Boukhris • Documentary Film • 2023 • Tunisia Darin Hassen • Documentary Film • 2023 • Syria Shapes of Normal Human Beings Salim Mrad • Documentary Film • 2023 • Lebanon Ager Oueslati • Documentary Film • 2023 • Algeria Karim Sayad • Documentary Film • 2023 • Algeria Sylvain Adas • Documentary Film • 2023 • Lebanon And there was evening, and there was morning–the first day Youhanna Nagy • Documentary Film • 2023 • Egypt Hussein Al-Asadi • Documentary Film • 2023 • Iraq Dhia Jerbi • Documentary Film • 2023 • Tunisia Ali Essafi • Documentary Film • 2024 • Morocco Pary El-Qalqili • Documentary Film • 2024 • Palestine Ziad Al-Qattan, Lobna Alsana • Documentary Film • 2024 • Palestine My Grandparents' Window Overlooks a Cemetery Lamis Almohamad • Documentary Film • 2024 • Syria Rabie Mustapha • Documentary Film • 2024 • Palestine Reman Sadani • Documentary Film • 2024 • Iraq Dilpak Majeed • Documentary Film • 2024 • Iraq Nadia Ghanem • Documentary Film • 2024 • Egypt Farah Abou Kharroub • Documentary Film • 2024 • Palestine Marwah Jbara Tibi • Documentary Film • 2024 • Palestine Ibrahim Omar • Documentary Film • 2024 • Sudan Aida Kaadan • Documentary Film • 2024 • Palestine The Day of Wrath: Tales from Tripoli Rania Rafei • Documentary Film • 2024 • Lebanon Mahmoud Massad • Documentary Film • 2024 • Jordan Haydar Helou • Documentary Film • 2024 • Iraq Theo Panagopoulos • Documentary Film • 2025 • Palestine Inès Arsi • Documentary Film • 2025 • Tunisia Myriam El Hajj, Omid Hashem • Documentary Film • 2025 • Lebanon Damascus - Queen of Hearts Diana El Jeiroudi , Orwa Nyrabia • Documentary Film • 2025 • Syria Onions to Forget the Past Emilien Awada • Documentary Film • 2025 • Lebanon Disappeared (Temporary Title) Anas Zawahri • Documentary Film • 2025 • Palestine Benjamin Salama • Documentary Film • 2025 • Algeria Ashtar Muallem • Documentary Film • 2025 • Palestine Rama Abdy • Documentary Film • 2025 • Syria Merieme Addou • Documentary Film • 2025 • Morocco Rami Jarboui • Documentary Film • 2025 • Tunisia Don’t Let the Sun Go Up on Me Asmae El Moudir • Documentary Film • 2025 • Morocco A City Without Doors - When Life Stirs Eyad Aljarod • Documentary Film • 2025 • Syria Rogena Tarek • Documentary Film • 2025 • Egypt El Mahdi Lyoubi • Documentary Film • 2025 • Morocco Bilal Alkhatib • Documentary Film • 2025 • Palestine Sonia Kessi • Documentary Film • 2025 • Algeria Adnane Baraka • Documentary Film • 2018 • Morocco Afraa Batous • Documentary Film • 2015 • Syria Crossing the Seventh Gate Ali Essafi • Documentary Film • 2017 • Morocco Alyaa Musa • Documentary Film • 2017 • Sudan Amer Almatar • Documentary Film • 2015 • Syria Amine Hattou • Documentary Film • 2014 • Algeria Anthony Chidiac • Documentary Film • 2014 • Lebanon Anthony Chidiac • Documentary Film • 2017 • Lebanon Bassam Mortada • Documentary Film • 2018 • Egypt Cyril Aris • Documentary Film • 2016 • Lebanon Dalyah Bakheet • Documentary Film • 2013 • Saudi Arabia Dima El-Horr • Documentary Film • 2017 • Lebanon Dina Naser • Documentary Film • 2018 • Jordan Djamel Kerkar • Documentary Film • 2015 • Algeria In Mansourah, You Separated Us Dorothée Myriam Kellou • Documentary Film • 2018 • Algeria Ekrem Heydo • Documentary Film • 2015 • Syria Erige Sehiri • Documentary Film • 2013 • Tunisia Etab Azzam, Bridgette Auger • Documentary Film • 2016 • Syria Eyas Almokdad • Documentary Film • 2018 • Syria Feras Fayyad • Documentary Film • 2016 • Syria Raise Your Head, You are a proud Egyptian Hala Galal • Documentary Film • 2011 • Egypt El Medestansi (The disqualified) Hamza Ouni • Documentary Film • 2018 • Tunisia Hind Meddeb • Documentary Film • 2018 • Tunisia They Planted Strange Trees Hind Shoufani • Documentary Film • 2018 • Palestine Jumana Manna • Documentary Film • 2017 • Palestine Habib Attia • Documentary Film • 2014 • Tunisia Karim Goury • Documentary Film • 2011 • Egypt The Fifth Resurrection of Farid Khalid Youssef • Documentary Film • 2017 • Egypt Une Maison Pour Buster Keaton Lamine Khodja • Documentary Film • 2018 • Algeria Latifa Doghri • Documentary Film • 2018 • Tunisia Laura Stauth • Documentary Film • 2018 • Egypt Lina • Documentary Film • 2017 • Syria Leïla Chaïbi • Documentary Film • 2018 • Algeria Ibrahim: a Fate to Define Lina Alabed • Documentary Film • 2015 • Palestine We Carve Words in the Earth Mahasen Nasser-Eldin • Documentary Film • 2018 • Palestine Malek Bensmail • Documentary Film • 2015 • Algeria Marouan Omara • Documentary Film • 2014 • Egypt Marwa Zein • Documentary Film • 2016 • Sudan Maya AlKhoury • Documentary Film • 2013 • Syria Mayye Zayed • Documentary Film • 2017 • Egypt Merieme Addou • Documentary Film • 2016 • Morocco Mira Sidawi • Documentary Film • 2018 • Palestine Yaser Kassab • Documentary Film • 2015 • Syria Mohamed Said Ouma • Documentary Film • 2018 • Comoros Myriam Sassine • Documentary Film • 2016 • Egypt Mohamed Slaoui • Documentary Film • 2014 • Morocco The Insomnia of a Serial Dreamer Mohamed Soueid • Documentary Film • 2014 • Lebanon Mohammed Abu Geth • Documentary Film • 2015 • Palestine Mohanad Yaqubi • Documentary Film • 2013 • Palestine Monika Borgmann and Lokman Slim • Documentary Film • 2013 • Lebanon Nadine Salib • Documentary Film • 2013 • Egypt Nahed Awwad • Documentary Film • 2018 • Palestine Naziha Arebi • Documentary Film • 2013 • Libya Who Killed Nabil Fawzy?
The History of Comics in the Middle East Nida Sinnokrot • Documentary Film • 2013 • Palestine Nidal Hassan • Documentary Film • 2017 • Syria Omar El-Khairy • Documentary Film • 2018 • Palestine Ossama Mohammad • Documentary Film • 2013 • Syria Qutaiba Barhamji • Documentary Film • 2018 • Syria Raed Andoni • Documentary Film • 2016 • Palestine Eccomi...
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Here you are) Raed Rafei • Documentary Film • 2015 • Lebanon Rafik Omrani • Documentary Film • 2016 • Tunisia A Comedian in a Syrian Tragedy Rami Farah • Documentary Film • 2016 • Syria Rana Eid • Documentary Film • 2013 • Lebanon Seeing in Between: Samar Yazbek Interviewed Rania Stephan • Documentary Film • 2017 • Lebanon Dima AL-Joundi • Documentary Film • 2016 • Lebanon Ridha Tlili • Documentary Film • 2018 • Tunisia Salim Abu Jabal • Documentary Film • 2014 • Syria 194.
Us, Children of the Camp Samer Abu Qatmeh • Documentary Film • 2016 • Palestine Sarah Fattahi • Documentary Film • 2017 • Syria Sarah Srage • Documentary Film • 2014 • Lebanon Sareen Hairabedian • Documentary Film • 2018 • Jordan This Little Father Obsession Jana Wehbe • Documentary Film • 2015 • Lebanon Talal Derki • Documentary Film • 2015 • Syria Tamara Stepanyan • Documentary Film • 2015 • Lebanon Wael Kadlo • Documentary Film • 2018 • Syria Walid Taya • Documentary Film • 2015 • Tunisia Christian Eid • Documentary Film • 2018 • Lebanon Yahya Abdalla • Documentary Film • 2014 • Jordan The Search for Issam Abdallah Yasser Naeim • Documentary Film • 2014 • Egypt Ziad Kalthoum • Documentary Film • 2013 • Syria Asmae El Moudir • Documentary Film • 2019 • Morocco Dalal Mawad • Documentary Film • 2019 • Lebanon Angie Obeid • Documentary Film • 2019 • Lebanon Zakaria Sedrati • Documentary Film • 2019 • Morocco Rima Samman • Documentary Film • 2019 • Lebanon Omar El-Khairy • Documentary Film • 2019 • Palestine Farah Kassem • Documentary Film • 2019 • Lebanon Mehdi Hmili • Documentary Film • 2019 • Tunisia Bassel Ghandour • Documentary Film • 2019 • Jordan Jumana Manna • Documentary Film • 2019 • Palestine Jihan • Documentary Film • 2019 • Libya Mohamed Sabbah, Danielle Davie • Documentary Film
According to the current listing, eligibility includes: Open to all Arab individuals working in the cultural and artistic fields. AFAC supports both individuals and institutions/organizations. Confirm the full requirements in the official notice before applying.
The current listing shows up to $10,000 USD for development grants, up to $50,000 USD for other proposals. Verify award ceilings, matching requirements, and allowable costs in the official notice.
AFAC Documentary Program (ADP) is funded by Arab Fund for Arts and Culture (AFAC). Verify program details on the funder's official page before applying.
Start from the official opportunity page linked in this listing — it carries the sponsor's submission instructions.
AFAC's Cinema Funding is sponsored by Arab Fund for Arts and Culture (AFAC). AFAC's Cinema funding is open to all kinds of film projects, including animation, from the Arab region. It offers funding for development/scripting, production, and post-production. The program aims to support film projects that resonate with audiences worldwide.
Open Call: Support Program for Translation and Publication is sponsored by Arab Fund for Arts and Culture (AFAC). This program supports translation and publication projects within the Arab region. While not exclusively focused on Egypt, it is open to applicants in the region and could be relevant for Egyptian non-profits involved in cultural or educational publishing.
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