The Cairo Film Festival’s Cairo Film Connection co-production market spread the love at an award ceremony Sunday night, with 15 projects claiming 20 prizes in the Egyptian capital valued at some $2…
this year and scored prizes at the El Gouna and Fribourg festivals, won a DCP package equivalent to $10,000 from The Cell and a $10,000 cash award from RISE Studios.
Other dual prize winners include “Bad Friend” , a social drama by Ahmed El Ghoneimy about an upper-middle-class family in Alexandria whose lives are turned upside-down after the disappearance of their matriarch; “Over Three Days” , from Tamer Ashry, an off-beat comedy about a woman who’s given a three-day ultimatum to decide if she wants to remain with her husband; Mariam Al-Dhubani’s “Let’s Play Soldiers” , which follows a Yemeni child soldier trying to build a better life for his family; and...
The 9th edition of the Cairo Film Connection was the first under new head Lynda Belkhiria. Along with a host of sponsor prizes, awards were decided by a jury that included Berlin Intl. Film Festival managing director Mariette Rissenbeek, Egyptian filmmaker and curator Viola Shafik, and Tunisian director Raja Amari.“The Last Man”
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