‘El-NahtFel-Zaman’, ‘Wanas’ awarded at ACF

CAIRO – 8 July 2018: Egyptian short documentary "El-NahtFel-Zaman" (Sculpting in Time), received the Jury Award at the first edition of the Arab Cinema Festival (ACF) in Paris, and the short feature movie"Wanas" (Affability) won the best short movie award.


The documentary recounts the life of acclaimed pioneering puppetry artist Nagi Shaker. It tackles Shaker’s various contributions in other areas, such as directing, design and fashion, throughout his 50-year long career. "Sculpting in Time" is directed Youssef Nasser and produced by RedStar.

“Wanas”, a short film directed by Ahmed Nader, previously, won a special prize for short films at the closing ceremony of the fourth edition of Alexandria Short Film Festival.


The 22-minute film stars Abdul RahmanAbou Zahra and Ragaa Hussein as a married couple in their 80s, with the wife struggling with her husband’s ill health. “Wanas” is a very humanistic movie about a love story between an elderly married couple and how death deprives one of them from the other.

Previously, the short film won the Bronze Tanit award for short films at the Carthage Film festival in Tunis in November 2017.