![]() It was a busy occasion for Tanios, who also shared the $10,000 prize for best Arab film selected in any of the three competitions with “Gaza Mon Amour” helmers Arab Nasser and Tarzan Nasser. In the Horizons of New Arab Cinema Competition, the Saad Eldin Wahba Award for best Arabic film went to Roy Arida for his Lebanese-French co-production “Under the Concrete.” The best non-fiction film prize was awarded to another Lebanese-French production, “We Are From There,” helmed by Wissam Tanios. ![]() The Naguib Mahfouz Award for best screenplay went to writer/director Jorge Cuchi’s Mexican drama “50 or Two Whales Meet on the Beach.” The jury also gave a special mention to “Gaza Mon Amour” by Arab Nasser and Tarzan Nasser. The documentary also won the Youssef Cherif Rizkallah Award, the Audience Award, which carries a $15,000 prize. Mayye Zayed’s Alexandria set weightlifting documentary “Lift Like a Girl” picked up the Bronze Pyramid for best first or second film. ![]() Tverdovsky’s “Conference.” Tverdovsky also walked off with the Silver Pyramid for best director. The jury could not pick a winner in the best actress category, awarding the prize ex aequo to Elham Shahin, the star of Amir Ramses’ Egyptian drama “Curfew,” and Russia’s Natalya Pavlenkova, who was the center of Ivan I. The jury award for best actor went to Bulgaria’s Julian Vergov for his turn in “German Lessons” by Pavel G.
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