24 films from all over europe nominated for the arab critics’ awards for european films
European Film Promotion (EFP) and the Arab Cinema Center (ACC) have revealed the film selections list of 24 films from different European countries. These films are currently being viewed by 42 film critics from across 13 Arab countries to select the best European film out of the entries submitted by the national film promotion institutes from all over Europe. The awards ceremony will be hosted at this year's edition of the Cairo International Film Festival (CIFF), which is slated to be held in November.
The List of European Films (in alphabetical order):
And Then We Danced
Director: Levan Akin
Sweden
Baghdad in My Shadow
Director: Samir
Switzerland
Buñuel in the Labyrinth of the Turtles
Director: Salvador Simó
Spain
Corpus Christi
Director: Jan Komasa
Poland
God Exists, Her Name is Petrunya
Director: Teona Strugar Mitevska
North Macedonia
Gods of Molenbeek
Director: Reetta Huhtanen
Finland
History of Love
Director: Sonja Prosenc
Slovenia
Let There Be Light
Director: Marko Škop
Slovakia
Mali
Director: Antonio Nuić
Croatia
Oleg
Director: Juris Kursietis
Latvia
Our Mothers
Director: César Diaz
Belgium
Out Stealing Horses
Director: Hans Petter Moland
Norway
Shindisi
Director: Dito Tsintsadze
Georgia
Stitches
Director: Miroslav Terzic
Serbia
System Crasher
Director: Nora Fingscheidt
Germany
Take Me Somewhere Nice
Director: Ena Sendijarevic
The Netherlands
The Champion
Director: Leonardo D'Agostini
Italy
The Delegation
Director: Bujar Alimani
Albania
The Painted Bird
Director: Václav Marhoul
Czech Republic
The Son
Director: Ines Tanović
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Truth and Justice
Director: Tanel Toom
Estonia
When Tomatoes Met Wagner
Director: Marianna Economou
Greece
Who You Think I Am
Director: Safy Nebbou
France
You Have the Night
Director: Ivan Salatić
Montenegro
More information on the Arab Critics' Awards for European Films here
Arab Cinema Center
Organized by MAD Solutions, the Arab Cinema Center (ACC) is now celebrating the fifth year since its inception in 2015. A non-profit organization registered in Amsterdam, the ACC is an international promotional platform for Arab cinema as it provides the filmmaking industry with a professional window to connect with their counterparts from all over the world through a number of its organised events. The ACC also provides networking opportunities with repre-sentatives of companies and institutions specialized in co-production and international distribution, among others.
Cairo International Film Festival
The Cairo International Film Festival (CIFF) is one of only 15 Festivals accorded as a category "A" status by the International Federation of Film Producers Associations FIAPF. It is the oldest and only internationally accredited cultural feature film festival in the Arab World, Africa and the Middle East.
The history of CIFF goes back to 1975, after a visit to the Berlin Film Festival the late writer-critic Kamal El Mallakh and a group of like-minded cinema critics wondered why such a world-class festival couldn't take place in Egypt. The country was still riding the crest of Egyptian cinema's golden age and contained a formidable film industry, still the biggest in the Arab world. The Cairo International Film Festival was launched in 1976.
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