The Doha Tribeca Film Festival (Dtff), the annual cultural celebration of Doha Film Institute (Dfi), has announced the juries to select the winners of the Arab Film Competition, the only competition at any regional film festival dedicated wholly to honouring Arab cinema talent. The members of the four juries, drawn from across the world, include internationally acclaimed film professionals, authors and cultural thought leaders. They will evaluate the Arab Film Competition's three segments - Feature Narrative, Feature Documentary and Short Film - as well as the 'Made in Qatar' segment of the festival, devoted to films made by Qatar-based talent. The awards have total prize money of over Us$440,000. The Feature Narrative jury will be headed by renowned Tunisian actress Hend Sabry (The Yacoubian Building, Whatever Lola Wants and Asmaa). The other jury members are: Indian director Ashutoush Gowariker (Lagaan, Jodhaa Akbar); Dr. Emad Amralla Sultan, Deputy General Manager of...
- 11/19/2012
- by Bollywood Hungama News Network
- BollywoodHungama
Gurvinder Singh’s Anhey Ghore da daan (Alms for a blind horse) won Special Jury mention with a cash prize of Usd 50,000 at the 5th Abu Dhabi Film Festival. India born British director Gemma Atwal’s documentary on the wonder kid of Orissa– Marathon Boy bagged her award for Best New Director with a cash prize of Usd 50,000.
Alms for a Blind Horse was in the New Horizon Competition at the festival. The Jury for the competition was headed by Iranian-Kurdish filmmaker Bahman Gobadi (Half Moon, Turtles can fly). The award for Best Film in this section was bagged by Stories Only Exist When Remembered, a Brazilan, Argentinian and French co production directed by Julia Murat.
The best documentary award was won by The Tiniest Place, a Mexican film directed by Titiana Huezo. The jury was headed by Egyptian-Canadian director Tahani Rached, while New Delhi based documentary filmmaker Anwar Jamal also served on the jury.
Alms for a Blind Horse was in the New Horizon Competition at the festival. The Jury for the competition was headed by Iranian-Kurdish filmmaker Bahman Gobadi (Half Moon, Turtles can fly). The award for Best Film in this section was bagged by Stories Only Exist When Remembered, a Brazilan, Argentinian and French co production directed by Julia Murat.
The best documentary award was won by The Tiniest Place, a Mexican film directed by Titiana Huezo. The jury was headed by Egyptian-Canadian director Tahani Rached, while New Delhi based documentary filmmaker Anwar Jamal also served on the jury.
- 10/21/2011
- by Bikas Mishra
- DearCinema.com
“This is not Egypt” says an interviewee in Tahani Rached’s new documentary Neighbors, but the old guard dies hard in Cairo’s Garden City neighborhood and probably think the opposite. A beautifully constructed quarter of Egypt’s capital city nestled with trees, organized around Parisian urban development aesthetics, and originally populated with seemingly nothing but villas for the wealthy foreign elite, Garden City has since suffered through several changes in government and the virus-like expansion of the U.S. Embassy to become, in 2009, a corrupted, decaying, and intruded-upon shadow of its chic past.
- 10/14/2009
- MUBI
- Official Festival Site October 18th to the 28th, 2007Counting Down: updateCountdownClock('October 18, 2006'); Today begins the oldest film festival in Canada, and yet at age 35 the fest shows no signs of aging. Young, hip and avant-garde this yearâ.s selection gathers the more challenging titles from Cannes and Toronto with a pinch of picks from Sundance and Berlin. In a city with an haute reputation for its fests, the Festival du Nouveau Cinéma is a gathering place for up-and-coming talents. From October 18th to 28th, there are a good chunk of films worth checking out (let us not forget the shorts, tributes, retrospectives, professional gatherings and events), below youâ.ll find the complete listing plus for the sake of sanity we also posted on a seperate page a top 10 suggestion list of films that are worth the price of admission. International Selection: Louve dâ.Or The International Selection includes first,
- 10/18/2006
- IONCINEMA.com
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