The Arab Fund for Arts and Culture (AFAC) is currently accepting applications for its Cinema Grant Program 2026. Interested applicants are encouraged to click here to learn more about this opportunity and apply for it.
About AFAC's Cinema Grant Program
The AFAC Cinema Grant Program, run by the Arab Fund for Arts and Culture (AFAC), provides financial support to Arab filmmakers working on feature, short, and medium-length films.It supports projects across all major filmmaking stages, including development, production, and post-production.
Benefits of AFAC's Cinema Grant Program
- For feature-length films, the Cinema program provides up to USD 10,000 in development grants, up to USD 50,000 in production grants, and up to USD 25,000 in post-production grants.For short and medium-length films, the program provides up to USD 20,000 in production grants and up to USD 10,000 in post-production grants.
AFAC's Cinema Grant Program Requirements
- The Cinema 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.
Ineligible Candidates
- 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.
Application Date and Process
- Applications are only accepted through the online forms.
- 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.
- They encourage you to read the full application form before applying.
- The deadline to submit your application is 19 June 2026 at 5:00 PM +3 GMT (Beirut time).
Application Deadline
19 June, 2026
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