The films “Abd”, directed by Mansour Asad, and “The Crow’s Song”, directed by Muhammad Al-Salman, shared the most prominent awards of the feature film competition at the Saudi Film Festival in its ninth session, which was closed yesterday, Thursday.
The movie “Abd” won the Golden Palm Award for Best Feature Film, and it also won two awards for Best Editing and Best Executed Screenplay.
The film “The Crow’s Song” won the Jury Prize, in addition to the Best Actor Award for the artist Issam Awad, and the Best Cinematography Award.
The Best Actress Award in the Feature Film Competition went to Aseel Omran for her role in “Tariq Al-Wadi” directed by Khaled Fahd.
The jury awarded the award for the best Gulf feature film to the two Iraqi films “The Wood Man” by director Qutayba Al-Janabi and “The Last Courier” by Saad Al-Sabbagh.
In the short narrative film competition, the Golden Palm award was won by the movie “Antidote” directed by Hassan Saeed, while the Jury Prize went to the movie “Aquamarine” directed by Hussein Al-Mutlaq.
And Fatima Al-Sharif won the best actress award in this competition for her role in the movie “Aquamarine”, while Hakim Jumaa won the best actor award for his role in the movie “Don’t Go Far”.
-Abdullah Al-Muhaisen won the award for the first film, “Sulfur” directed by Salma Murad, and the movie “Beast from the Sky” by Maryam Khayyat won the award for best animated film.
-The Golden Palm Award for the Gulf short film went to “A Place in Time” by Emirati director Nawaf Al-Janahi.
In the Documentary Film Competition, “Under One Sky” film, directed by Mojtaba Saeed, won the Golden Palm Award, while the jury awarded its prize to the movie “The Story of the King of Journalism” by Hassan Saeed.
The Tuwaiq Mountain Award for the best documentary film about a Saudi city was won by Faisal Al-Otaibi, “Al-Ardah Al-Najdiyah”, and “Trocage” by Ahmed Abu Zinada won the Unique Documentary Subject Award.
The Golden Palm Award for the Gulf Documentary Film went to “Long Distances” by directors Ali Al Bimani and Hamad Al Qasabi from the Sultanate of Oman.
The festival, organized by the Cinema Association, in partnership with the King Abdulaziz Center for World Culture (Ithraa) and with the support of the Film Authority, was launched on the fourth of May, and the Saudi producer, Saleh Al-Fawzan, and the Bahraini scriptwriter, Amin Saleh, were honored at the opening.
(Reuters)
