Now in its 14th edition, Final Cut supports films in post-production from all African countries and six countries in Middle East: Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine, Syria and Yemen. The story focuses on two lovers, Madi and Djino, forced to acknowledge Madi’s child after she experiences pregnancy denial. CL1 D’oeil Studio and Boucan Films produce.
However, the aim was not to tell a unique story; the most important thing was to find a perspective that was distinctive enough to allow me to make the subject my own and render it authentically.” Her characters live without “ever knowing or being able to predict what their next move will be.” “Surprise after surprise, just like in pregnancy denial, they embrace life’s blows with such resilience. The film’s unpredictability allows it to shift from one subject to another, and without losing focus, these elements come together to form a single narrative. Ultimately, pregnancy denial is merely the trigger that sets the story alight, allowing it to unfold and tell its own tale.” Another big winner was “Occupational Hazards” by Bassel Ghandour, which picked up five awards.
It follows a Palestinian family in Jerusalem. Ultimately this is a darkly humorous tale of resilience and defiance, told through this family’s journey as they try and keep their home from crumbling, literally and figuratively.” The Imaginarium Films produces, with Tough Crowd, Cocoon Films and Metafora Productions co-producing. Youssef Chebbi’s “Plague” also won five awards.
Sold by The Party Film Sales, it’s produced by Supernova films, Blast Films and Portobisso. But in 2019, a music project brought me back: I found a tired, almost abandoned town. That’s when I met two twin brothers working in a family palm grove,” said the director, also mentioning the story’s villain: the red palm weevil, a parasite that appeared after the fall of the dictatorship.
In the film, in a country where presidents never die, a woman finds herself unexpectedly pregnant and determined to abort. For it to work, I invented an imaginary city where you’d lose yourself, both geographically and temporally. Where there is no South, North, East or West, only this good sea, this azure-blue basin, with its turbulent shores,” she said.
Her story tries to unite us “through an imaginary geography that welcomes humor, friendship and hope.” It’s produced by Tessalit Productions, co-produced by FuryoFilms, Artemis Productions and Zoudj Doro Production, and sold by The Bureau Sales. She will combine animated sequences created by Mehdi Bardi with live-action footage that “materializes this dreamlike quality, offering a poetic escape and an imagery proper to fairy tales.” Abraham Gezahagne’s “Mehal Sefari” also took home two awards, and Alaa Eddine Aljem’s “Eldorado, The Taste of the South” one award. In the first, produced by Gobez Media Inc. and Abricom Multimedia – with Barents Film, 2Pilots and New Amsterdam also attached – a politically apathetic ambulance driver collects bodies from the streets of Ethiopia’s capital during a mass killing in 1977.
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