Mohamed Njeim (Rabat)
The able Egyptian actress and star, Laila Elwi, will be honored at the International Women’s Film Festival, which is organizing its 15th session from September 26 to the first of next October in the city of Salé. Al-Baqi and Ahmed Adam, directed by Atef Al-Tayeb.
In its next session, the International Women’s Film Festival celebrates the cinema of Senegal, by showing Senegalese films, and honoring some of the cinema pioneers in this African country, where the Senegalese film “Atlantic” by director Matti Diop, which was shown in the official competition at the Cannes Film Festival, is shown. 2019, and won the Grand Prix and the Jury Prize, and won the Golden Tanit at the Carthage Film Festival, and its events revolve around workers who decide to build a tower without pay for several months in a suburb of the capital, Dakar, to leave the country across the ocean for a better future in Europe. Other films from the African continent that deal with women’s issues will also be screened, including “Congo .. A Doctor to Save Women” by Angel Diabang, “Time is on our side” by Katie Lina Ndiaye, and “Under the Starry Sky” by Diana Gaye.
Competing for the feature film award, all of which were shot in 2021, is “Myopia,” signed by director and actress Sanaa Akroud, “Along the Sea” by Akio Fujimoto, (a co-production between Japan and Vietnam), “Our Happiest Days” by Sol Pierozo Pichon Riviere, ( Co-production between Italy and Argentina), “Souad” by Ayten Amin, (co-production between Egypt, Tunisia and Germany), “Shanker Fairies” by Irvana Majumdar, India, “Beehive” Blerta Pacholi, (co-production between Kosovo, Switzerland, North Macedonia and Albania ), “Our Eternal Summer” by Emily Osel, France, “Ninja Baby” Lingfield Sve Flick, Norway, “Aqua” Elena Lopez Riera, (co-production between Switzerland, Spain and France), “Moja Vesna” by Sarah Kern, (co-production between Slovenia) and Australia), and the films mentioned represent Europe, South America, Africa and Asia.
Five films are competing for the Documentary Film Award, which are “The Return” by Sarah El Shazly, Egypt, “Prism” by Eleonor Yamogo and Anne Fan. Denden and Rosen Mbakem, Belgium, 2021 “Black Mambas” directed by Lina Karp, (co-production between Germany and France), “No Simple Way Home” by Akol de Mabior, (co-production between South Sudan and Kenya), “Between Us Women” by Sarah Noa Bosenhardt and Daniel Abate Tilahun (co-production between Germany and Ethiopia).
While competing for the Youth Audience Award are the Moroccan feature films “The Punch” by Mohamed Amin Mouna, “The Master of the Unknown” by Alaa El-Din El-Jem, “15 Days” by Faisal Al-Halimi, “La Mora, Love in Wartime” by Mohamed Ismail, and “The Gates of Heaven” by Mourad Al-Khoudi. .
The jury of the official competition for feature films consists of: Marianne Khoury, Egyptian producer and director, chairperson of the jury, consisting of: Martine Ndiaye, director of the African Women Film Festival, Fatima Ayachi, Moroccan actress and director, Amelie Van Lambet, Belgian director, and Caroline Quinaud, Swiss director.
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