Bogdan Mureșanu’s The New 12 months That By no means Got here, a tragicomedy set getting ready to revolution in 1989 Romania, has received the Golden Pyramid for finest movie on the 45th Cairo Worldwide Movie Competition (CIFF).
The worldwide competitors jury was unanimous in choosing the movie, which premiered at Venice in September the place it received finest movie within the Horizons strand in addition to the Fipresci prize.
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CIFF handed out an expanded set of awards at a glitzy closing cermony of this yr’s version, which marked a return for the longest-running movie pageant within the Center East and Africa after cancelling final yr following the outbreak of the Israel-Gaza battle.
The Silver Pyramid award for finest director went to Russia’s Natalia Nazarova for Postmarks, a comedy-drama a couple of girl with cerebral palsy who hopes her father will return from the ocean and meets a sailor who brings information that modifications her life. The movie additionally picked up a finest actor award for Maxim Stoyanov and a particular point out for lead actress Alina Khojevanova.
The Bronze Pyramid award for the very best first or second movie by a director went to Brazil’s Pedro Freire for drama Malu. Yara De Novaes, who performs the title function, additionally scooped the very best actress prize.
The movie premiered at Sundance earlier this yr and marks the function directorial debut of Freire. The story is impressed by the filmmaker’s personal mom, Malu Rocha, a movie and TV cleaning soap opera actress, exploring reminiscences of an excellent previous in a rundown house in a Rio slum. It picked up a number of awards on the Rio de Janeiro Worldwide Movie Competition final month.
Additional movies to choose up a number of prizes included Spring Got here Laughing, an Egyptian melodrama that noticed filmmaker Noha Adel obtain the Henry Barakat Award for finest inventive contribution and Salah Abu Seif Award for finest director in addition to the Fipresci prize.
Within the Horizons of Arab Cinema Competitors, the very best Arab movie prize was awarded to A State Of Ardour, Carol Mansour and Muna Khalidi’s documentary about British-Palestinian reconstructive surgeon Ghassan Abu Sittah, who turned a face of Palestinian resistance after working around the clock for 43 days below fixed bombardment within the emergency rooms of Gaza’s Al Shifa and Al Ahli hospitals.
The function additionally received a function documentary award and considered one of a collection of recent awards given by the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation’s Radio and Tv Union, recognising movies addressing the Palestinian trigger.
Additional prizes that had been new this yr included finest African movie, which went to Mati Diop’s Berlinale Golden Bear winner Dahomey, and finest Asian movie, awarded to Lin Jianjie’s Transient Historical past Of A Household by Netpac.
The pageant ran from November 13-22 at Cairo Opera Home Complicated, screening round 200 movies, and opened with the world premiere of Palestinian filmmaker Rashid Masharawi’s Passing Desires, which was additionally recognised with a prize from the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation’s Radio and Tv Union.
CIFF 2024 winners
INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION
Golden Pyramid Award: finest movie
The New 12 months That By no means Got here, dir. Bogdan Mureșanu
Silver Pyramid Award: particular jury award for finest director
Natalia Nazarova for Postmarks
Bronze Pyramid Award: finest first or second work of a director
Pedro Freire for Malu
Naguib Mahfouz Award: finest screenplay
Vittoria by Alessandro Cassigoli, Casey Kauffman
Greatest Actor Award
Lee Kang Sheng Blue Solar Palace
Maxim Stoyanov, Postmarks
Greatest Actress Award
Yara De Novaes, Malu
Particular point out: Alina Khojevanova, Postmarks
Henry Barakat Award: finest inventive contribution
Director Necmi Sancak for Ayse
Director Noha Adel for Spring Got here On Laughing
Worldwide Critics Prize (Fipresci Prize)
Spring Got here On Laughing, dir. Noha Adel
HORIZONS OF ARAB CINEMA COMPETITION
Saad Eldin Wahba Award: finest Arabic movie ($10,000)
A State of Ardour, professionals. Carol Mansour, Muna Khalidi
Salah Abu Seif Award: finest director ($7,000)
Noha Adel for Spring Got here On Laughing
Youssef Sherif Rezkallah Award: finest screenwriter ($6,000)
Louay Khraish and Faissal Sam Shaib for Arzé
Greatest Actor Award ($2,000)
Mohamed Khouyi, The Blue Lake
Greatest Actress Award ($2,000)
Diamand Bou Abboud, Arzé
INTERNATIONAL CRITICS’ WEEK COMPETITION AWARDS
Shadi Abdel Salam Award: finest movie
Wild Diamond, dir. Agathe Riedinger
Fathy Farag Award: particular jury award
Simon Of The Mountain, dir. Federico Luis
Particular point out
Abu Zaabal 89, Bassam Mortada
African Function Award
Dahomey, dir. Mati Diop
Particular Jury Prize
Abu Zaabal 89, Bassam Mortada
Netpac Award: excellent Asian function movie
Transient Historical past Of A Household, dir. Lin Jianjie
Broadcasting & Tv Union of Organizations of Islamic Cooperation Award
Offered to the highest Palestinian documentaries or brief movies
First prize: Sq. Kilometer Desires, dir. Qassam Sbeih
Second prize: A State Of Ardour, dirs. Carol Mansour, Muna Khalidi
Third prize: Passing Desires, dir. Rashid Masharawi
Particular mentions
Professor Dr. Ghassan Abu Sitta, surgeon at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza
Palestinian director Rashid Masharawi
The Deer’s Tooth, dir. Saif Hammash
SPECIAL PROGRAMMES
Misr Worldwide Movies (MIF), Youssef Chahine Award
Offered to the very best movie within the Palestinian movie collection “Zero Distance”
Delicate Pores and skin, dir. Khamis Masharawi
No Sign, dir. Muhammad Al Sharif
A College Day, dir. Ahmed Al Danaf
Function Documentary Award
Abu Zaabal 89, dir. Bassam Mortada
A State Of Ardour, dirs. Carol Mansour, Muna Khalidi
SHORT FILM COMPETITION
Youssef Chahine Award: finest brief movie
David, dirs. Kai Xue, Hong Jiexi
Particular Jury Award
The Final Dismissal, dir. Jowaher Alamri
Particular Point out
The Mom And The Bear, dir. Yasmina El Kamaly
