The 44th CIFF’s closing ceremony took place on the stage of the Cairo Opera House on Tuesday evening.
Awards of the 44th Cairo International Film Festival are as follows:
International Competition
The Golden Pyramid Award
Alam by Firas Khoury (France, Tunisia, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Qatar)
The Silver Pyramid Award, Special Jury Award, for Best Director
Love According to Dalva by Emmanuelle Nicot (Belgium, France)
The Bronze Pyramid Award For Best First or Second Feature
Bread and Salt by Damian Kocu (Poland)
Naguib Mahfouz Award For Best Screenplay
A Man (Japan), screenplay by Kosuke Mukai
Best Actor Award
Maher El Khair for his role in The Dame by (France, Lebanon, Sudan, Qatar, Germany, Serbia)
Best Actor Award
Mahmoud Bakry for his role in Alam (France, Tunisia, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Qatar)
Best Actress Award
Zelda Samson for her role in Love According to Dalva (Belgium, France)
Henry Barakat Award for Best Artistic Contribution (Awarded to the Cinematographer)
19B, cinematography by Mostafa El Kashef (Egypt)
The Horizons of Arab Cinema Competition
Saad Eldin Wahba Award for Best Arabic Film
Mother Valley by Carlos Chahine (France, Lebanon)
Salah Abu Seif Award
Riverbed by Bassem Breche (Lebanon, Qatar)
Best Non-Fiction Film Award
Far From the Nile by Sherief Elkatsha (Egypt, USA)
Best Acting Performance Award
Carole Abood for her role in Riverbed ( Lebanon, Qatar)
Special Mention for Film
I’m Coming Home by Yassine Redissi (Tunisia)
Special Mention for Best Actress
Lyna Khoudri for her role in Houria (France, Belgium)
International Critics’ Week Competition
Shadi Abdel Salam Award for Best Film
PAMFIR by Dmytro Sukholytkyy-Sobchuk (Ukraine, France, Poland, Chile, Luxembourg)
Fathy Farag Award
Joyland by Saim Sadiq (Pakistan)
Special Mention
Victim by Michal Blaško (Slovakia, Czech, Germany)
Short Film Competition
Youssef Chahine Award for Best Short Film
Rosemary A.D. (After Dad) by Ethan Barrett (USA)
The Special Jury Award
My Girlfriend by Kawthar Younis (Egypt)
Special Mention
One F*cking Wish by Piotr Jasiński (Czech)
Special Mention
Riverbed by Bassem Breche (Lebanon, Qatar)
CIFF Cash Awards
Best Arab Film Award (USD 10,000)
19B by Ahmad Abdalla, Produced by Mohamed Hefzy (Egypt)
Youssef Chahine Award for Best Short Film (EGP 10,000)
Rosemary A.D. by Ethan Barrett (USA)
Youssef Cherif Rizkallah Award (Audience Award, USD 15,000)
Alam by Firas Khoury produced by Marie Pierre Macia, Claire Gadéa and distributed in Egypt by Mad-Solutions (France, Tunisia, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Qatar)
source/content: english.ahram.org.eg (headline edited)
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