The Red Sea International Film Festival Announces the Winners for the Yusr Awards 2022 - Celluloid Junkie

Jeddah, Saudi Arabia ( December 8, 2022 ) -

The 2nd variation of the Red Sea International Film Festival (RedSeaIFF), taking spot from 1-10 December 2022, contiguous announced the winners of the Red Sea contention sections. Earlier this evening, the star-studded satellite premiere of “Valley Road” from award-winning Saudi writer and manager Khaled Fahd, starring Hamad Farhan, Naif Khalaf, and Aseel Omran closed the Festival.

Celebrating the boldness and innovation successful film, the Yusr awards contiguous the biggest prizes successful the portion for some emerging and established voices crossed the formats of fiction, documentary, animation, and Virtual Reality. The awards were presented this evening astatine a glittering ceremonial with attendance comprised of planetary endowment from crossed the movie industry, and hosted by presenter Raya Abirached and Mo Islam.

Shining a airy connected films from Saudi Arabia, the Arab world, Asia, and Africa, the prestigious awards, present successful its 2nd edition, enables the Red Sea International Film Festival to item the scope and immense endowment crossed the portion and beyond. The awards were presented by an planetary assemblage of renowned filmmakers and manufacture heavyweights.

Academy Award-winning and internationally renowned histrion and filmmaker Jackie Chan received the Golden Yusr Honorary Award this evening, recognizing his unparalleled talents and publication to the industry, paving the mode arsenic a legendary actor, director, producer, and stuntman. Jackie Chan is joined by Yousra, Shah Rukh Khan, and Guy Ritchie who received Yusr Honorary Awards astatine the opening ceremonial of the Festival.

Mohammed Al Turki; CEO of the RedSeaIFF added: “Over, the past week, we person travel unneurotic to observe the movie manufacture and the unthinkable endowment we person some successful the portion and internationally. The 2nd variation of the festival has been a immense occurrence welcoming delegates from each implicit the satellite to this unthinkable metropolis and we are delighted to adjacent the festival by championing the enactment of some emerging and already-established filmmakers from Saudi Arabia, the Arab world, Asia and Africa – congratulations to each the winners.

Please spot beneath the afloat database of winners:

• Film AlUla Audience Award for Best Saudi Film: “How I Got There” – Zeyad Alhusaini (Kuwait, Saudi Arabia)
• Film AlUla Audience Award for Best Film: “Ajooma” – He Shuming (Singapore, South Korea)
• Silver Yusr for Red Sea Virtual Reality: “Eurydice” – Celine Daemen (Netherlands)
• Gold Yusr for Red Sea Virtual Reality: “From the Main Square” – Pedro Harres (Germany)
• Silver Yusr for Short Competition: “Will My Parents Come to See Me” – Muhamed Bashiir Harawe (Somalia, Austria, Germany)
• Gold Yusr for Short Competition: “On My Father’s Grave” – Jawahine Zentar (Morocco, France)
• Red Sea Competition Best Cinematic Achievement: Duraid Munajim for “Hanging Gardens” (Iraq, Palestine, Egypt, United Kingdom, Saudi Arabia)
• Red Sea Competition Best Actor: Adam Bessa for “Harka” (Tunisia, France, Saudi Arabia)
• Red Sea Competition Best Actress: Adila Bendimerad for “The Last Queen” (Algeria, France, Saudi Arabia)
• Red Sea Competition Best Screenplay: “A Childless Village (Sonsuz)” Reza Jamali (Iran)
• Red Sea Competition Jury Prize: “Within Sand” – Mohammed Alatawi (Saudi Arabia)
• Red Sea Competition Best Director: Lotfy Nathan for “Harka” (Tunisia, France, Saudi Arabia)
• Red Sea Competition Best Film: “Hanging Gardens” – Ahmed Yassin Al Daradji (Iraq, Palestine, Egypt, United Kingdom, Saudi Arabia)
• Chopard Award – The Young Rising Star : Sara Taibah

About The Red Sea International Film Festival
The 2nd variation of the Red Sea International Film Festival volition surface the champion of the Arab and planetary cinema successful Jeddah. The Festival volition besides showcase a retrospective programme to observe the masters of cinema. The Red Sea International Film Festival is simply a level for Arab filmmakers and manufacture professionals from astir the satellite to connect, big competitions for abbreviated and diagnostic films, and signifier masterclasses to enactment emerging talent. It volition instrumentality spot from December 1 — 10, 2022.