Egyptian director Omar El Zohairy’s absurdist social satire “Feathers,” in which the good-for-nothing husband of a woman with three children is turned into a chicken, is the big winner …
in which the good-for-nothing husband of a woman with three children is turned into a chicken, is the big winner of theCritics’ Week prize, scooped best film, director and screenplay at the prizes organized byCentre and voted on by 167 film critics from 68 countries, who viewed the films on Festival Scope.Arab-language films that premiered on the festival circuit outside of the Arab world in 2021. The awards were announced on Sunday in Cannes.
“Feathers,” which took six years to get to the big screen, was produced by Juliette Lepoutre from Still Moving , in co-production with Mohamed Hefzy’s Film Clinic , Shahinaz Al Akkad from Lagoonie Film , Derk-Jan Warrink and Koji Nelissen from Kepler Film , Giorgos Karnavas and Konstantinos Kontovrakis from Heretic , and Verona Meier.
The best doc gong went to Syria-born Palestinian filmmaker Abdallah Al-Khatib’s “Little Palestine, Diary Of A Siege” which looks at the loptional screen reader
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