While I usually avoid making lists of awards-worthy films, rules are meant to be broken and this year it was something definitely worth doing.
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A still from ‘Giant’ featuring Amir El Masry, image courtesy of the Red Sea IFF
The Red Sea International Film Festival announces line up, plus opening night film 'Giant' featuring Egyptian-British actor Amir El Masry
The selection includes works which were supported by the Red Sea Fund, including Annemarie Jacir’s ‘Palestine 36’, the Palestinian submission to the Oscar race and ‘Hijra’ by Shahad Ameen which represents Saudi Arabia in the awards run this year.
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Jafar Panahi, after his Palme d’Or win for It Was Just an Accident
Jafar Panahi & 'The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo' take Cannes top prizes -- in Competition and Un Certain Regard
At a festival where everyone was told to avoid political statements, the juries made their views loud and clear by choosing films to award with their activists caps on.
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