Last night, in Tangier, Morocco, Ismail Al-Iraqi’s feature film “Contact Street” won the Grand Prix of the 22nd National Film Festival, with 19 prizes distributed in the three competitions, which were won by the films produced by the last session of the festival in 2020..
“If He Was Overthrowing Lahiout” and Ismail Ferroukhi’s “Mica” (shared) by Hakim Belabbas won the Jury Prize for the Feature Film Competition. While the actor Younes Bawab won the award for the best male role for his role in the film “Jabal Musa” directed by Idriss El Marini, and Jalila Al-Talmisi won the award for the best female role for her role in the Abdel Salam Kalai’s film “Goldfish”, which won the award for best screenplay, while the packaging award went to Hakim Bel Abbas. Ezz Al-Arab Al-Kaghat won the second prize for the best male role for her role in the film “Mika”, while Fatima Atef won the second prize for the best female role for her role in the film “Zanqa Contact” , and Nabil Ayush won the Best Director Award for his film “Ali Your Voice”, while Idriss Al-Roukh’s “Salty Locusts” and Hadi Awlad Mohand’s “Between the Waves” (equally) they won the first opera prize.
The sound award went to Hamza Faker for the film “Anato” by Fatima Boubekdi, the production award for Hassan Chaoui for the film “The Good”, the photography award to Ali Benjelloun for the film “Habiba” by Hassan Benjelloun and the original music award to Idris El Maloumi for the film “Fatima Mernissi the unforgettable Sultana”. For Mohamed Abdel Rahman Tazi.
As for the prize in the Narrative Short Film Competition, Mohamed Bahari’s film “A Tale” won first prize, while Younes El Mogahed’s film “Ziad” won the jury’s prize for best screenplay, and the film Emad Badi’s “Days of Spring” won (equally) the jury prize with the film “Days of Spring”. The silence of Aida, by Kamal Al-Masoudi.
The results of the documentary film competition led Muhammad Al-Aboudi’s “School of Hope” to win the first prize, the film “Sheikh Maa Al-Enein, the Mujahid Imam and the Divine World” by Ezz Al-Arab Al- Alawi, and Abdelilah Al-Gohari’s “Bollywood Morocco” (also) with the jury prize.
As for the Critics’ Award offered by the Moroccan Association of Film Critics, he won the feature film “If He Was Overthrowing Lahiout” by Hakim Bel Abbas, the short film “Betrayal” by Salma Lakhmas and the documentary film “La Muallaqat” by Maryam Addo.
The Film Club Award, given by the National Film Clubs Association, went to Mohamed Al-Aboudi’s documentary “School of Hope”, Mohamed Bahari’s short “A Tale” and Hadi Awlad Mohand’s feature film “Between the Waves”.
The jury of the feature film competition was chaired by Idriss Anwar, with director Lahcen Backpackun, writer and poet Soraya Magdoulin, film critic Mohamed Tarous, film and media critic Bilal Marmid, composer Belaid El-Akkaf and writer Bouchra Bouloiz as members. Director Laila Triki chaired the jury of the short film competition, with director Ghazlan Assif, journalist Ikram Zayed, poet Mohamed Abed and stylist Bouchra Boumarij, while the jury included the long documentary competition, in addition to its president, the director Daoud Awlad El-Sayed, director Mariam Ait Belhossein and researcher Abdel Wahab Sibawayh.
In addition to the awarding of the winners, the closing ceremony of the festival saw the awarding of the director Eza Jenini, Houssein Boudih, president of the Moroccan Chamber of Cinema, and of the journalist and screenwriter Ali Hassan.
The pandemic-imposed (Corona) opening ceremony, postponed by two years from the last session held in 2020, saw a special tribute to the late critic and director Nour El-Din Al-Sayel, as well as producer and director Souad Al-Mariqi and director Mohamed Abdel-Rahman Al-Tazi, while the paragraph “In Memory” artists and directors have left in the past two years.
The session dedicated a segment to “The Film Market”, which discussed the distribution and exploitation of films in the era of digitization and new forms of presentation and distribution. He also scheduled professional meetings that covered the reality of national cinema and the prospects for its development, presenting film production for the years 2020 and 2021.
On the sidelines of the festival, it organized the fourth session of the Ivorian Film Week in Morocco, to consolidate relations between the two countries and to activate the requirements of the joint production and exchange of films between the Moroccan Film Center and the Ivorian Film Office.
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