Dubai: Fourteen films will compete for prizes at the Arab Film Competition segment of the Doha Tribeca Film Festival (DTFF) organisers announced on Monday.
The festival, which kicks off on October 25 in the Qatari capital, has announced a set of new awards including two audience awards: Best Narrative Film and Best Documentary with cash prizes of $100,000 (Dh367,000) each. Seven narrative and seven documentary films will compete in each category.
Award-winning Syrian director Mohammed Malas, widely recognised across the Arab world for his work, will lead the five-member Narrative Film Competition Jury.
Competition expanded
"In our third year, we chose to expand the competition mainly because of the strength of this year's submissions, which our Arab programmers believed we could do justice to," said Amanda Palmer, the executive director of Doha Film Institute, organiser of the DTFF in a statement.
"And while it is the year of the Arab Spring, it's been inspiring to see the maturity of films from all genres reflecting original voices and stories from the Arab world."
The DTFF will run from October 25 to 29. For more information, go to dohafilminstitute.com
The films competing:
- Narrative
- A Man of Honor (Jean-Claude Codsi)
- Red Heart (Halkawt Mustafa)
- How Big Is Your Love (Fatma Zohra Zamoum)
- El Shooq / Lust (Khaled El Hagar)
- Smuggler's Song (Rabah Ameur-Zaimeche)
- Normal (Merzak Allouache)
- Omar Killed Me (Roschdy Zem)
- Documentary
- Rouge Parole (Elyes Baccar)
- The Three Disappearances of Soad Hosni (Rania Stephan)
- Yearning (Lina Alabed)
- Crayons of Askalan (Laila Hotait Salas)
- The Virgin, The Copts and Me (Namir Abdel Messeeh)
- Boxing With Her (Latifa Robbana Doghri)
- On the Road to Downtown (Sherif El Bendary)
