French filmmaker Jonathan Millet’s thriller Ghost Path received El Gouna Movie Competition’s $50,000 Golden Star award for greatest narrative movie. The pageant ran October 24-November 1.
Lead Adam Bessa additionally received greatest actor for his efficiency as a younger man on a mission to trace Syrian regime leaders in France, the place he should confront his former torturer. The movie world premiered at Cannes’ Critics’ Week sidebar.
The $25,000 Silver Star award went to Julien Colonna’s conflict drama The Kingdom, whereas Indian romantic drama Ladies Might be Ladies by Shuchi Talati received the $15,000 Bronze Star and the Fipresci award.
The latter world premiered on the Sundance Movie pageant, successful the viewers award and the jury particular award for greatest performing for Preeti Panigrahi.
Finest actress went to Laura Weissmahr for her efficiency in Mar Coll’s Spanish psychodrama Salve Maria, as a brand new mom going via the complexities of motherhood.
Finest Arab narrative function was shared by Palestinian filmmaker Laila Abbas’ drama Thank You For Banking With Us! and Tunisian filmmaker Meryam Joobeur’s drama Who Do I Belong To, which world premiered in competitors on the Berlinale.
The jury additionally gave a particular point out to actor Charles Peccia Galletto for his efficiency in Anne-Sophie Bailly’s drama My Every little thing.
15 movies had been screened on this 12 months’s function narrative competitors. The jury was headed by Indian actress and filmmaker Nandita Das, and likewise included French movie critic Charles Tesson, Egyptian actress Menna Shalaby, German actress Sibel Kekilli, and Algerian filmmaker Sofia Djama.
Documentary competitors
Within the function documentary competitors, Lebanese filmmaker Farah Kassem’s We Are Inside received the $30,000 El Gouna Golden Star for greatest function documentary. The movie follows the difficult relationship between Farah and her ageing Father, and the way poetry helps them talk.
There have been 12 function documentary contenders. Lebanese director and producer Eliane Raheb presided over the jury which additionally featured French producer Jérôme Paillard, Tunisian actor and director Nejib Belkadhi, German director Steffi Niederzoll, and Moroccan director and producer Hicham Falah.
The $15,000 Silver Star went to Belgium filmmaker Johan Grimonprez’s Soundtrack To A Coup d’Etat, which explores using jazz music as a software of U.S. diplomacy through the Chilly Warfare. It premiered at Sundance.
The $7,500 El Gouna Bronze Star went to Norwegian filmmaker Silje Evensmo Jacobsen’s A New Variety Of Wilderness, a narrative of a Norwegian household seeks a wild free existence however a tragic flip of occasions shatters their isolation.
The $10,000 prize for greatest Arab documentary function was shared by Egyptian filmmakers Nada Riyadh and Ayman El Amir’s The Brink Of Desires, the winner of the perfect documentary award at Cannes Critics’ Week, and Syrian filmmaker Anas Zawahri’s My Reminiscence Is Full Of Ghosts, which follows weary residents in Syria striving for normalcy.
The pageant’s $20,000 cinema for humanity award – for movies exploring humanitarian points – went to the Lebanese darkish comedy drama Dysfunction by Lucien Bourjeily, Bane Fakih, Wissam Charaf, and Areej Mahmoud.
In different awards, the NetPac award went to We Are Inside by Lebanese filmmaker Farah Kassem, whereas The Battle For Laikipia by Peter Murimi and Daphne Matziaraki from Kenya received the $10,000 El Gouna Inexperienced Star award, for movies that elevate consciousness round points associated to the atmosphere, ecology or wildlife.
