Doha Film Institute (DFI) today announced the recipient projects for its fall 2023 grants cycle. In total, 44 films from 32 countries have been awarded grants in short, medium, feature-length, and drama series formats, fiction and non-fiction categories.
DFI, which is located in Qatar, has supported over 800 diverse film projects from 74 countries to date.
The awardee projects are in various stages of development and production including the highlight project by UK director Ana Naomi De Sousa’s documentary ‘Naseem’, ‘Fight with Grace’ based on the life of British-Yemeni featherweight boxer Naseem Hamed, aka Prince Naseem, and Naz.
Highlights from fiction features in the mix are Iraqi director Mohamed Al Daradji ‘Arkala Gilgamesh’s Dream’ and the other upcoming features include Moroccan director Alaa Eddine Aljem’s dark comedy ‘Eldorado, the Taste of the South’, and Palestinian-French-Egyptian filmmaker Rani Massalha’s ‘The Return of The Prodigal Son’.
The 2024 Berlinale selection ‘Disco Afrika: A Malagasy Strot’ by Madagascar filmmaker Luck Razanajaona is also on the selection list.
The awardee list also includes projects based out of the MENA region including ‘Locust’, a debut feature by US-Taiwanese director KEFF about a mute twenty-something in Taipei who struggles to find meaning in the injustice of everyday life as he watches the news about the 2019 Hong Kong protests.
The DFI’s grants program is one of the longest-running funding initiatives in the MENA region.
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