Haifaa al Mansour's “Wadjda” honored at Dubai Film Fest December 17, 2012 - 20:10 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Abdulla Aljunaibi and Humaid Alawadi's The Path walked away with this year's Muhr Emirati prize, one of the top awards dished out at the close of the Dubai International Film Festival Sunday evening (Dec. 16), The Hollywood Reporter said. In the Muhr Emirati section, Muna Al Ali was awarded the special jury prize while The Goat's Head (Raas Al Ghanam), directed by Juma Al Sahli secured the best film award at the festival's closing ceremony and prize giving. The festival, which dishes out more than $600,000 in prize money to filmmakers from the Arab region and beyond, marking it out as one of the world's most extravagant prize-giving events, also handed out its Muhr Arab feature category prizes. Alexandra Kahwagi got a special mention for her role in Round Trip, a Syria, UAE, Germany, France and Egypt co-production in the Arab feature category. The best actress plaudit went to Waad Mohammed for her turn in Wadjda, the German, Saudi Arabian and United Arab Emirates backed movie directed by Saudi Arabia’s first female film director, Haifaa al Mansour. Mansour's film also secured the best Muhr Arab feature crown. The evening's Arab feature best actor nod went to Amr Waked for his role in the Egyptian feature Winter of Discontent (El Sheita Elli Fat) while Kamal El Mahouti won best director for My Brother (Mon Frere), a French Moroccan backed picture. The ninth Dubai International Film Festival, held under the patronage of UAE vice president and ruler of Dubai Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, screened films from 60 countries across 43 languages.   Top stories The creative crew of the Public TV had chosen 13-year-old Malena as a participant of this year's contest. She called on others to also suspend their accounts over the companies’ failure to tackle hate speech. Penderecki was known for his film scores, including for William Friedkin’s “The Exorcist”, Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining”. The festival made the news public on March 19, saying that “several options are considered in order to preserve its running”   Partner news |  Latest news Ucom Celebrates Telecommunication Day  May 17 commemorates the founding of the International Telecommunication Union on May 17, 1865.Armenian, Azerbaijani heads of parliament meet in Switzerland President of the Armenian parliament Alen Simonyan met with the Speaker of the Azerbaijani Milli Majlis Sahiba Gafarova.Border residents overnight on highway to protest Armenia’s Residents of Kirants continue to express outrage over the government’s decision to cede land to Azerbaijan.Get Started: An educational platform for young startuppers The Get Started program which operates in two phases is an important platform for young startuppers. |
