Updated 20 May 2019
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Arab Cinema Center’s Annual Critics Awards

Arab Cinema Center’s Annual Critics Awards

The Arab Cinema Center announced the winners of the 3rd Annual Critics Awards on the sidelines of the 72nd Cannes Film Festival on Saturday night.

  • Best Film: ‘Yomeddine’

    Directed by Abu Bakr Shawky, a Coptic leper and an orphaned boy leave their colony to embark on journey across Egypt in this film.

  • Best Director: Nadine Labaki

    Nadine Labaki’s Oscar-nominated film, “Capernaum,” tells the story of an impoverished boy who files a lawsuit against his parents.

  • Best Documentary: ‘Of Fathers and Sons’

    For more than two years, filmmaker Talal Derki lived with a family Syria, focusing his camera on the children to capture their gradual radicalization.

  • Best Screenplay: ‘Sofia’

    Meryem Benm’Barek wrote the screenplay for this Moroccan film in which a woman who is about to give birth risks going to jail if she cannot provide the father’s identity papers.

  • Best Actress: Maha Alemi

    Nominated for her titular role in “Sofia,” a drama feature set in Casablanca that is a commentary on the woes of women in Morocco.

  • Best Actor: Mohamed Dhrif

    He plays a troubled father in “Dear Son,” which follows a story of a middle-class couple who struggle when their son leaves for Syria to join Daesh.