Jerzy Skolimowski’s EO wins accolades from Arab critics; Atlas Workshops in Marrakech Announce Awards; Cinema in Munich! Show the participants China, Iran and India – Global Briefs

Jerry Skolimowski E.O Received awards from Arab critics for European films

Experienced Polish director Jerzy Skolimowski E.O, which explores the world through the eyes of a donkey, won the fourth edition of the Arab Critics’ Awards For European Films, in which 76 critics from 15 Arabic-speaking regions voted for their favorite European film, which opened at the festival site. earlier this year. The award was announced at the Cairo International Film Festival. Skolimowski was unable to attend the awards ceremony in person as he is currently in LA promoting the film, which is Poland’s Oscar entry this year, but he did send a message of thanks. “I am incredibly happy about it E.O was appreciated by the Arab critic circle because it must mean that my simple story about a donkey touched the hearts of people in different cultures,” he said. Pan-Arab distributor Front Row Filmed Entertainment will release the film in the Middle East and North Africa in early 2023. The awards are a joint initiative of the Cairo-based Arab Cinema Center and European Film Promotions.

Marrakech Atlas Workshops Project Incubator Event Announces Prizes

Jordanian filmmaker Amjad Al Rasheed Inshallah a boy took home the top post-production prize of $25,000 at the fifth edition of the Atlas Workshops project event at the Marrakech International Film Festival. The drama revolves around a young widow and mother who must conceive a son or risk losing her home to her brother-in-law under Jordan’s sexist inheritance laws. Malagasy director Luck Razanajaona took second place in post-production Disco Africain which a young man must choose between making easy money and fighting corruption, and the documentary Boubacar Sangaré by filmmaker Boubacar Sangaré from Burkina Faso A golden life, follows a teenager who works in the country’s dangerous small gold mines. The jury consisted of the Giornate degli Autori director in Venice, Gaia Furrer, the French distributor Eric Lagesse of Pyramide Films and the French producer Sébastien Onomo of Special Touch Studio. The winner in the development work category was the migration drama by the Moroccan director Saïd Hamich La Mer Au Lointhe female emancipation story by Lebanese director Dania Bdeir pigeon wars and that of the Senegalese filmmaker Katy Lena Ndiaye loin, located in a fishing community threatened by rising water levels. The jury consisted of Moroccan producer Lamia Chraïbi from La Prod, German producer Nicole Gerhards from Niko Film and French producer Farès Ladjimi from Supernova Films. Egyptian director Sameh Alaa, who won the Canne Palme d’Or for his short film, received further awards. I’m afraid to forget your face won the 2020 $6,000 Artekino International Prize for his feature film debut whale stomach.

Cinema in Munich! Welcome emerging filmmakers from China, Iran and India

Munich Film Up!, an eight-month mentoring and residency program supporting six aspiring filmmakers, was launched this week for the second time in the German city of the same name. Participants are Nancy Camaldo (Italy), Sadeq ES-HAQI (Iran), Ashmita Guha Nehogi (India), Soham Kundu (India), Viv LI (China) and Nguyen Luong Hang (Vietnam). The program is a joint initiative of the Munich Film School and Matthieu Darras’ Pop Up Film Residency. The second edition kicked off with a four-day boot camp as part of the Munich Film School’s annual festival, with talks by Hungarian filmmaker Ildikó Enyedi, Polish producer Izabela Igel and German film producer and distributor Jan Mojto. This will be followed by a three-week stay in the spring of 2032 with well-known European producers, including the Greeks Giorgos Karnavas and Konstantinos Kontovrakis and the Romanian Ada Solomon, followed by a final meeting in June 2023, where participants will present projects to professionals in the industry will present.