Venice Festival Awards: The lion of the future of a Sudanese director and three awards at the Lebanese Critics Week

The part of Arab cinema in the 76th edition of the Venice International Film Festival, which ended on Saturday night, was remarkable after Arab artists received several awards for their events.

However, the list of official festival awards was empty of any Arab artist after Haifa Al-Mansour's "Perfect Candidate", the only Arab film in the competition, was released at no cost.

However, the compensation was given to the films that represented the first steps of its directors to win awards for a number of festival events, as is the case of the films "You die in the twentieth" from Sudanese director Amjad Abu Ala, "Beek N & # 39; ish" by Tunisian director Mahdi Bersawi and director's "Sound Wall". Lebanese Ahmed Ghossein.

The most important of these awards was the Sudanese director Amjad Abul Ala at the Luigi de Lorientes Golden Lion Award, better known as the Lion of the Future, usually awarded to a promising director for his first film career. .

The Serbian jury chaired by Serbian director Amir Costa Rica was composed of Tunisian actress Hind Sabri.

The film is based on the novel "Sleeping at the foot of the mountain" of the Sudanese writer Hammour Ziadeh, which inspires the reality of the rituals of the dominant Sufi movements in Sudan, through the story of a boy who predicts a Sufi sheikh will die at the age of twenty, living in the shadow of that prophecy that paralyzes his life A friend of his father is a film lover and has a enlightening thought that reestablishes its relationship with the world and reconciles itself with life, far from the chains of its submission to this prophecy which tarnished its relationship with it.

Abu Ala is a Sudanese filmmaker who grew up in the United Arab Emirates. She studied media at her university and lives in Dubai, where he directs and produces documentaries for several television channels. "Produced under the direction of Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami.

The main roles of the film were Mustafa Shehata, Islam Mubarak and Mahmoud Al-Serji, but it took about two months to shoot in the Al-Jazeera region, north of Khartoum, the Sudanese capital.

Bo AgilaInterpretation Award

The Tunisian actor Sami Bouajila won the award for best actor in "Horizons" (Oriente) for his role in the Tunisian film "Beek N" by Mehdi Bersaoui.

In the film, Bouagila played the role of "husband" and businessman, who returns home with his family, his wife and his son, after a terrorist attack during which his son was hit a bullet in the liver.

The father volunteers to save his son, who needs a liver transplant in a country where Islamic law prohibits the transfer of organs only from family members.

The incident has transformed the family's life when the father discovers, after DNA testing, that he is not the biological father of his son, but that he continues to try to save him.

Boujila, Franco-Tunisian, born in France in 1966, has already won the award for best actor in the film Témoins de 2008 by French director André Ticini.

He also appeared in the film "Days of Glory" by Franco-Algerian director Rachid Bouchareb, who talks about the participation of a group of North African men in the fight against the Nazi occupation. France during the Second World War. The five presidents at work.

It is worth mentioning here that the director Bo Sharp was this year member of the jury of the contest "Horizons", chaired by the Italian director Susanna Nechiarelli.

Three awards For a Lebanese movie

The film "The Sound Wall" by Lebanese director Ahmed Ghossein won three awards during the demonstration of the "Critics' Week", one of the events organized in parallel by the festival.

The film, director's first feature film, was crowned with the grand prize of this event and the prize for the best technical contribution (the film is entirely based on sound), as well as the prize of the audience who attended the event. event.

The film, whose main roles are Boutros Rouhana, Issam Bou Khaled and Karam Ghossein, describes what he says to be a true story that occurred during the Israeli invasion of southern Lebanon in 2006.

Five people gathered to seek refuge from the absurd death of war in a house in a village in southern Lebanon, including her hero, Marwan, who went there to search for his father.

They are confined to the basement of the house after Israeli forces have settled on the top floor of the house. Their relations abroad depend entirely on the espionage of the voices that emanate from them, for fear of discovering their hiding place.

The same event witnessed the participation of another Arab film, the first film of Saudi director Shahd Amin, "Our Lady of the Sea".

In a poetic and experimental way, the film tells the story of a girl on an isolated island whose inhabitants depend on fishing. Her fishermen have already sworn to sacrifice the sea and her father saved her from drowning.

The lead roles in this film were played by Palestinian actor Ashraf Barhoum and Saudi actress Bassima Hajjar.