The Jerusalem Film Festival named one of its prizes after Sherine Abu Aqleh
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The Jerusalem Arab Film Festival launched its second session, the day before yesterday, with the participation of 26 films between fiction and documentaries from Tunisia, Egypt, Jordan, Somalia, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, Algeria, Syria, Iraq and Palestine.
The director of the festival, Nevin Shaheen, announced at the opening ceremony that the TV reporter, Sherine Abu Aqleh, would be named the prize for the documentary film competition, "in perpetuity of her giving and her role in conveying facts and stories from Palestine."
Six films will compete in this competition: “Captains of Zaatari” by the Egyptian Ali El-Araby, “Diaries of Gabriel Street” by the Palestinian Rashid Mashharawi, “The Blue Prisoners” by the Lebanese Zina Daccash, “From Cairo” by the Egyptian Hala Jalal, and “Re-destruction” by the Lebanese Simon Haber, and (Disaster in Gaza), directed by Anna Alba and Beatrice Lecombri.
The performances will be held at the Palestinian National Theater "Al Hakawati", the French Cultural Center, and the Turkish Cultural Center.
At the opening, which was held at the Palestinian National Theatre, the festival screened the Tunisian film (Kadha) directed by Anis Al-Aswad, starring Shama Ben Shaaban, Jamal Laroui, Anisa Lotfi and the child Yassin Al-Tarmsi.
The director of the theater, Amer Khalil, said at the opening: “The importance of this festival comes from the fact that it allows us to open bridges with Arab artists, with Arab films, in the city of Jerusalem, at a time when Jerusalem is really besieged ... Jerusalem is besieged from all sides, especially from the side. cultural.”
The program of the festival, which continues until the nineteenth of May, includes a workshop for scriptwriting and another for film criticism, in addition to a dialogue session entitled “Films that tell Jerusalem.”
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