It is in a festive and friendly atmosphere that the 1era Founding edition of the Master International Film Festival-Yasmine Hammamet 2022, Le Miff, a new major meeting of the national, Arab, African and international cinema, was closed on this Saturday, June 11, 2022, and which saw the presence of many stars of cinema and arts, in addition to brand guests.
A closing ceremony, broadcast live on the national channel “Watania 1”, organized in the large conference room to welcome the large public who came to celebrate the cinema and fill up on the room.
Immediately after the welcome of the guests, the serious things started with a “making off” of this week full of activities and a festive atmosphere of an event of this size in prelude where all the protagonists on site, juries, organizers, press office, volunteers and other collaborators gave themselves for the success of the Miff-Yasmine Hammamet 2022.
And after the usual musical interlude, it is one by one that the juries went on stage to finally read the laureates who gleaned the famous “Galion of Gold”.
A list that gave the following results:
Cut fictional films competition:
Golden Galion: Criminals, by Serhat Karaaslan (Türkiye)
Special mention: An Ordinary Dayof Anas Zawahri (Syria)
Competition of documentary films:
Special jury prize: Mountain marinefrom Karim Aïnouz (Brazil-Algeria)
Golden Galion: Radiograph of a Familyfrom Firiuzeh Khosrovani (Iran)
Competition feature films:
Special mentions:
- Beirut Hold’emby Michel Kamoun (Lebanon)
- Fredafrom Gessica Fabiola Geneus (Haiti)
- La Fortalezaby Jorge Thielen Armand (Venezuela)
Best female role: Néhemia Bastien in Freda
Best male role: Damien Bonnard in Intranquilles
Best staging: Barra El Manhagfrom Amr Salama (Egypt)
Special jury prize: Communionfrom Néjib Belkadhi (Tunisia)
Golden Galion, ex-aequo:
- Intranquillesby Joachim Lafosse (Belgium)
- Quo Vadis Aïdaby Jasmila Zbanic (Bosnia)
A “galleon” which is worth its weight of gold and exceptional by its plastic design, its form, its slender line, but also by its historical, social and cultural symbolism, recalling the epic of Carthage under Hannibal and the maritime environment of our Tunisia. A trophy long thought out before being definitively chosen.
All these awarded films have distinguished themselves by a relevant subject and related to an often dramatic social situation, like Quo Vadis Aïda Who reminds us of the sad and very touching drama of Bosnia during the wild assault of Serbia against Muslims in this country. Or Radiography of A Family From Iranian Firiuzeh Khosrovani which relates a certain past of Iran under the chah and another present under the diet of the mullahs. As well as Intranquilles Belgian Joachim Lafosse who transcribes family relationships in various aspects and in different situations.
The award -winning short film Criminalsfrom Turkish Serhat Karaaslan, no longer escapes him from this interest in social relations in general.
And it is the same for the films that have obtained special mentions.
But it should be recalled that before deciding on these great cinematographic achievements, all deserving, as the juries pointed out, several activities marked these days of 7th Art, such as the Master Class, round tables or the sessions of “heritage cinema” or “memory”. Tributes were also paid to two large figures of the Arab cinema, the Tunisian Raouf Ben Amor, and the Egyptian Laïla Eloui.
A festival that aims to be the mirror of world cinema through a selection of high -quality and high -quality, aesthetic and cinematographic high -quality films, as their selection proves in the biggest film festivals and their consecration in many festivals of 7th Art.
A Miff-Yasmine-Hammamet which does not have its identical in its new approach to making this festival a master of the great exceptional films, which was widely proven during the screening of films in competition, all, with something close, of the same value, as mentioned by the members of the various juries.
An appointment that will be impatiently awaited for its 2nd edition of 2023, and always in the marvelous framework of Médina Méditerranéa, source of pleasure, cultural and other exchanges, and especially inspiration for lovers of nature and heritage.
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