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EFC: And the winners are ...
Abu Dhabi - A night before the closing gala awards of the Abu Dhabi Film Festival (ADFF), the Emirates Film Competition (EFC) announced its winners for this year.
“Over the past days we lived through the creativity of your films,” said Saleh Karama, the new director of EFC, said on Thursday.
“You are the sons and daughters of this competition,” he added.
Now in its 11th year, EFC selected 46 short fiction and documentary films from the Gulf countries. Having 39 of them from the UAE shows that the Emirates’ efforts and investments in establishing a film industry here is blossoming.
The night belonged to three Emirati students, Abeer Al Marzouqi, Khawla Al Maamari and Aisha Al Amri, whose short documentary, Dreams In Their Eyes, won the Best Emirati Film, as well as the first prize in the Student Short Documentary, for which they got a cheque for Dh20,000.
Yassir Al Yassri from Dubai took home the Dh30,000 cheque and the first prize award for Short Narrative Competition, for Murk Light, a 20-minute psychological drama about an encounter between a bus luggage assistant and his teenage friend, who drowned because of him. The film also received the Best Cinematography award, which was done by Stijn Van Der Veken.
Smaller Than The Sky by Abdullah Hassan Ahmed (UAE) won the second prize, and The Journey by Hanna Makki (UAE) received the Special Jury Award in the Narrative Competition.
The gala awards also announced the winners of ADFF’s international short competitions. The Black Pearl for the Best Narrative (US$ 25,000) went to 9 Vaccines, directed by Iair Said (Argentina). Somewhat funny and unemotional, this is a light story at a hospital in Buenos Aires. Diego has been bitten by a dog and Melina has been bitten by a cat, and rabies treatment demands nine vaccines.
The Best Documentary (US$ 25,000) award went to The Hidden Smile directed by Ventura Durall (Spain), which tells the story of Daniel, a 10-year-old kid who arrives in Addis Ababa after escaping from his home and his misfortunes, only to end up living on the streets.
The Best Animation (US$ 10,000) award went both to Camels directed by Park Jee-youn (South Korea) and to Linear directed by Amir Admoni (Brazil).
The Best Film from the Arab World (US$ 25,000) was crowned The Island - Al Dhazira by Amin Sidi-Boumediene (Algeria), which also got the Best Producer from the Arab World award (US$ 10,000).
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