The 7th El-Gouna Film Festival ended with the awards announced during the closing ceremony on 1 November.
El-Gouna Golden Star award went to Ghost Trail, a thriller about a Syrian refugee in France. Check all awards below.
International competition
El-Gouna Golden Star award for best narrative film
Ghost Trail (France) by Jonathan Millet
The film follows Hamid, who “joins a secret group tracking Syrian regime leaders on the run. His mission takes him to France, pursuing his former torturer for a fateful confrontation,” reads the synopsis on IMDb.
El-Gouna Silver Star
The Kingdom (France) by Julien Colonna
El-Gouna Bronze Star
Girls Will be Girls (India) by Shuchi Talati won the Fipresci Award.
Best actor
Adam Bessa for his performance in Ghost Trail (France) by Jonathan Millet
Best actress
Laura Weissmahr for her performance in Salve Maria (Spain) by Mar Coll
Best Arab narrative feature – shared award
– Thank You For Banking With Us! (Palestine) by Laila Abbas
– Who Do I Belong To (Tunisia) by Meryam Joobeur
Jury special mention
Actor Charles Peccia Galletto for his performance in My Everything by Anne-Sophie Bailly
Documentary competition
El-Gouna Golden Star
We Are Inside (Lebanon) by Farah Kassem
El-Gouna Silver Star
Soundtrack To A Coup d’Etat (Belgium) by Johan Grimonprez
El-Gouna Bronze Star
A New Kind Of Wilderness (Norway) by Silje Evensmo Jacobsen
Best Arab documentary feature – shared award
– The Brink Of Dreams (Egypt) by Nada Riyadh and Ayman El Amir
– My Memory Is Full Of Ghosts (Syria) by Anas Zawahri
Other awards
Fipresci award
Girls Will be Girls (India) by Shuchi Talati Cinema for Humanity award
Disorder (Lebanon) by Lucien Bourjeily, Bane Fakih, Wissam Charaf, and Areej Mahmoud.
The NetPac award
We Are Inside (Lebanon) by Farah Kassem
El Gouna Green Star award
The Battle For Laikipia (Kenya) by Peter Murimi and Daphne Matziaraki
source/content: english.ahram.org.eg (headline edited)
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