‘Four Daughters’ & ‘Goodbye Julia’ Lead Nominations For 8th Edition Of Critics Awards For Arab Films
Tunisian filmmaker Kaouther Ben Hania’s Oscar-nominated documentary Four Daughters and Sudanese director Mohamed Kordofani’s Lupita Nyong’o-EPed drama Goodbye Julia lead the nominations in the eighth edition of the Critics Awards for Arab Films.
Hybrid work Four Daughters, exploring the story of a real-life Tunisian mother who lost two of her daughters to Isis after they were radicalized by a local preacher, world premiered in Competition in Cannes last year.
The film won Cannes’ Golden Eye for Best Documentary and also went on to be nominated for Best Documentary at the 2024 Academy Awards.
Kordofani’s Khartoum-set drama Goodbye Julia was also at Cannes in 2023, making history as the first Sudanese film to play in the festival across its 76 editions, with a debut in Un Certain Regard. It represented Sudan at in the 2023-24 Oscar race but was not nominated.
Set against the backdrop of the 2011 South Sudan Independence referendum,...
Hybrid work Four Daughters, exploring the story of a real-life Tunisian mother who lost two of her daughters to Isis after they were radicalized by a local preacher, world premiered in Competition in Cannes last year.
The film won Cannes’ Golden Eye for Best Documentary and also went on to be nominated for Best Documentary at the 2024 Academy Awards.
Kordofani’s Khartoum-set drama Goodbye Julia was also at Cannes in 2023, making history as the first Sudanese film to play in the festival across its 76 editions, with a debut in Un Certain Regard. It represented Sudan at in the 2023-24 Oscar race but was not nominated.
Set against the backdrop of the 2011 South Sudan Independence referendum,...
- 4/25/2024
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- Deadline Film + TV
The Blue Caftan by Moroccan director and Cannes 2023 Jury member Maryam Touzani has topped the nominations in the seventh edition of the Critics Awards for Arab Films.
The portrait of marriage and stifled sexuality, starring Saleh Bakri and Lubna Azabal has been nominated in seven categories including best film, actor, actress, director, screenplay, cinematography and music.
The film world premiered in Cannes Un Certain Regard in 2022 and went on to be Morocco’s best international film submission for the 2023 Academy Awards making it as far as the first long list.
The Critics Awards for Arab Films are overseen by the Arab Cinema Centre and judged by 193 critics from 72 countries. The winners will be announced at a ceremony during Cannes.
To qualify for consideration, films need to have premiered at international film festivals outside of the Arab world in 2022; involve at least one Arab world production company, and be feature-length.
Other...
The portrait of marriage and stifled sexuality, starring Saleh Bakri and Lubna Azabal has been nominated in seven categories including best film, actor, actress, director, screenplay, cinematography and music.
The film world premiered in Cannes Un Certain Regard in 2022 and went on to be Morocco’s best international film submission for the 2023 Academy Awards making it as far as the first long list.
The Critics Awards for Arab Films are overseen by the Arab Cinema Centre and judged by 193 critics from 72 countries. The winners will be announced at a ceremony during Cannes.
To qualify for consideration, films need to have premiered at international film festivals outside of the Arab world in 2022; involve at least one Arab world production company, and be feature-length.
Other...
- 5/12/2023
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- Deadline Film + TV
Arab Cinema Center Reveals Winners of 4th Critics Awards For Arab FilmsWithin the Virtual Cannes Marché du FilmThrough a virtual ceremony through Zoom platform, the Arab Cinema Center (Acc) revealed the winners of the fourth edition of its Critics Awards for Arab Films during the Virtual Marché du Film. The award is submitted based on the voting of a jury of 141 members from across 57 countries. The critics have viewed Arab feature and documentary films produced in 2019 on Festival Scope.
To watch the award ceremony check the following link: https://youtu.be/qz1m0KElw5I
For the first time in the history of Arab cinema, the jury committee brings together 141 of the most prominent Arab and international film critics from 57 countries from all over the world this year.
Furthermore, the Arab Cinema Center announced that American film critic Deborah Young is the newly assigned Manager of the Critics’ Awards for Arab Films.
To watch the award ceremony check the following link: https://youtu.be/qz1m0KElw5I
For the first time in the history of Arab cinema, the jury committee brings together 141 of the most prominent Arab and international film critics from 57 countries from all over the world this year.
Furthermore, the Arab Cinema Center announced that American film critic Deborah Young is the newly assigned Manager of the Critics’ Awards for Arab Films.
- 6/30/2020
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
Fourth edition is based on votes of 142 Arab and international critics hailing from 57 countries.
Elia Suleiman’s It Must Be Heaven and Maryam Touzani’s Adam received four nominations each in the first round of voting in this year’s Critics Awards for Arab Films.
A total of 142 Arab and international film critics from 57 countries are participating in the fourth edition of the awards, organised by the Arab Cinema Centre (Acc).
Suleiman’s comedy-drama It Must Be Heaven, which premiered in Cannes Competition in 2019, has been nominated for best film, director, actor (Suleiman) and screenplay.
Moroccan filmmaker Touzani’s feature directorial debut Adam,...
Elia Suleiman’s It Must Be Heaven and Maryam Touzani’s Adam received four nominations each in the first round of voting in this year’s Critics Awards for Arab Films.
A total of 142 Arab and international film critics from 57 countries are participating in the fourth edition of the awards, organised by the Arab Cinema Centre (Acc).
Suleiman’s comedy-drama It Must Be Heaven, which premiered in Cannes Competition in 2019, has been nominated for best film, director, actor (Suleiman) and screenplay.
Moroccan filmmaker Touzani’s feature directorial debut Adam,...
- 6/17/2020
- by 1100388¦Melanie Goodfellow¦69¦
- ScreenDaily
Adam 2019 Photo: Courtesy of Cannes Film Festival The shortlisted nominees for the Critics Awards for Arab Films have been announced. The award has been voted on by 142 film critics from 57 countries in under its jury committee. The winners will be announced during the upcoming edition of the Virtual Cannes Market (June 22-26).
Elia Sulieman's absurdist consideration of the Palestine situation, It Must Be Heaven and Maryam's female-centric drama Adam lead the nominations list with four each.
Co-founders of Acc, Alaa Karkouti and Maher Diab said: "We're proud to announce the fourth edition of the Critics' Awards for Arab Films. Although we won't be able to hold the reception in Cannes as usual, however we're happy that it shall continue as part of the festival in its virtual edition this year.
“We are also thrilled to announce Deborah Young as the newly appointed Manager of the Critics Awards for Arab Films for the next two years,...
Elia Sulieman's absurdist consideration of the Palestine situation, It Must Be Heaven and Maryam's female-centric drama Adam lead the nominations list with four each.
Co-founders of Acc, Alaa Karkouti and Maher Diab said: "We're proud to announce the fourth edition of the Critics' Awards for Arab Films. Although we won't be able to hold the reception in Cannes as usual, however we're happy that it shall continue as part of the festival in its virtual edition this year.
“We are also thrilled to announce Deborah Young as the newly appointed Manager of the Critics Awards for Arab Films for the next two years,...
- 6/16/2020
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
The 55th edition of the Taormina Film Festival[/link] will now be called Taormina Film Fest in Sicily. The festival will go island wide with screenings and programs in Palermo, Syracuse and Argrigento. Artistic director Deborah Young, who is also the chief international critic for The Hollywood Reporter announced the redesigned event was done in cooperation with Sicily's new regional government and will now reach larger audiences though Taormina, with its ancient Greek Theatre, stunning cliffside setting and view of the Mt. Etna volcano, will still be the festival's centerpiece. This year's national guest of honor is France following Egypt and Turkey previously honored. The festival will run June 13-20.
- 3/3/2009
- Sydney's Buzz
ROME -- "Transformers", the big-budget summer action flick from Michael Bay and executive producer Steven Spielberg, will have its world premiere at the Taormina Film Fest, Deborah Young, the event's artistic director, said Tuesday.
Young said the premiere would represent the first time a major U.S. film of that stature premiered at the 53-year-old Taormina event.
Bay, several cast members and executives from distributor Paramount Pictures will arrive by helicopter in an elaborate ceremony before the June 21 screening.
The science fiction film about an invasion of Earth by transformer robot armies will open elsewhere on the planet July 4.
"We think the decision to premiere 'Transformers' in Taormina shows a renewed interest in the festival, and it illustrates the strong ties between this Mediterranean festival and American cinema," Young, in her first year as artistic director, said in an interview.
Taormina, located on the Italian island of Sicily, will host the festival June 16-22.
Young said the premiere would represent the first time a major U.S. film of that stature premiered at the 53-year-old Taormina event.
Bay, several cast members and executives from distributor Paramount Pictures will arrive by helicopter in an elaborate ceremony before the June 21 screening.
The science fiction film about an invasion of Earth by transformer robot armies will open elsewhere on the planet July 4.
"We think the decision to premiere 'Transformers' in Taormina shows a renewed interest in the festival, and it illustrates the strong ties between this Mediterranean festival and American cinema," Young, in her first year as artistic director, said in an interview.
Taormina, located on the Italian island of Sicily, will host the festival June 16-22.
- 5/30/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
ROME -- The Taormina International Film festival's long-time assistant artistic director, Deborah Young, has been elevated to the event's top post, organizers announced Monday. Young replaces Felice Laudadio, who left to head the new Rome festival focusing on television films.
Young's appointment comes at a difficult time for Taormina, which was forced to shrink down the 52nd edition of the Sicilian festival last year after the main sponsor pulled out and threw its weight behind the inaugural RomaCinemaFest.
This year's edition of the June festival will focus on films from around the Mediterranean, the Middle East and from Arabic countries, Young said in a statement. It will also include a retrospective on the work of Italian director Giuseppe Tornatore, best known for the 1988 classic "Cinema Paradiso".
Young, a consultant with New York's Tribeca Film Festival and a former Venice Film Festival official evaluating U.S. films, spent the past five years under Laudadio in Taormina.
Young's appointment comes at a difficult time for Taormina, which was forced to shrink down the 52nd edition of the Sicilian festival last year after the main sponsor pulled out and threw its weight behind the inaugural RomaCinemaFest.
This year's edition of the June festival will focus on films from around the Mediterranean, the Middle East and from Arabic countries, Young said in a statement. It will also include a retrospective on the work of Italian director Giuseppe Tornatore, best known for the 1988 classic "Cinema Paradiso".
Young, a consultant with New York's Tribeca Film Festival and a former Venice Film Festival official evaluating U.S. films, spent the past five years under Laudadio in Taormina.
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