Who are Cairo International Film Festival awards winners?

CAIRO - 11 December 2020:Cairo International Film Festival concluded its events on December 10.

Egypt Today presents to its readers list of the awards winners: 

1-Official Competition Awards

The Golden Pyramid Award for Best Film
presented to the producer

- Limbo (UK) by Ben Sharrock

The Silver Pyramid, Special Jury Award for Best Director

- Conference (Russia, Estonia, UK, Italy) by Ivan I. Tverdovskiy

The Bronze Pyramid Award for Best First or Second Work
presented to the director:

- Lift Like a Girl (Egypt) by Mayye Zayed

Naguib Mahfouz Award for Best Screenplay

- 50 or Two Whales Meet on the Beach (Mexico)
Written and directed by Jorge Cuchi

Best Actor Award

Julian Vergov for his role in German Lessons (Bulgaria) by Pavel G. Vesnakov

Best Actress Award 
awarded to two actresses

- Elham Shahine in Curfew (Egypt) by Amir Ramses
and
- Natalya Pavlenkova for her role in Conference (Russia, Estonia, UK, Italy) by Ivan I. Tverdovskiy

Henry Barakat Award for Best Artistic Contribution

- Limbo (UK) by Ben Sharrock

Special mention 

Gaza Mon Amour (Palestine, Germany, France, Portugal) by Tarzan and Arab Nasser

2-The Horizons of New Arab Cinema Competition Awards 

Saad Eldin Wahba Award for Best Arabic Film
awarded to the director:

- Roy Arida for his film Under The Concrete (France, Lebanon)

Salah Abu Seif Award for Best Artistic Contribution.
- The Tambour of Retribution (KSA) by Abdulaziz Al Shelahi

Best Non-Fiction Film Award

- We Are from There (Lebanon, France) by Wissam Tanios

Best Acting Performance Award

- Faisal Al-Dokhi for his role in The Tambour of Retribution (KSA) by Abdulaziz Al Shelahi

Special Mention

- The Fall of Apple Trees (Morocco) by Mohamed Moftakar
 

3-International Critics’ Week Competition Awards

Shadi Abdel Salam Award for Best Film
awarded to the director

- The Best Is Yet to Come (China) by Jing Wang

Fathy Farag Award for Best Artistic Contribution

- Gold (Netherlands) by Roger Hesp
 

4-The Cinema of Tomorrow International Competition Awards

Youssef Chahine Award for Best Short Film.

- Isabel (Cuba) by Egyptian director Sara Shazly

The Special Jury Award

- The Game (Switzerland) by Roman Hodel

Special mention

- The Girls Who Burned The Night (KSA) by Sara Mesfer

5-Cairo International Film Festival Cash Awards

Youssef Cherif Rizkallah Award (Audience Award)
USD 15,000 (shared between the producer of the film and the Egyptian company distributing the film in Egypt)

- Lift Like a Girl (Egypt) by Mayye Zayed

Best Arab Film Award
USD 10,000 presented to the producer of the film. 

- Gaza Mon Amour (Palestine, Germany, France, Portugal) by Tarzan and Arab Nasser

- We Are From There (Lebanon, France) by Wissam Tanios
 

ISIS Award for best Egyptian film to show the economic and social emancipation of women (USD 10,000)

- Lift Like a Girl (Egypt) by Mayye Zayed

Award for best film dealing with human trafficking issues
EGP 50,000 is presented by the National Committee for Combating Illegal Immigration and Human Trafficking

- Along The Sea (Japan, Vietnam) by Fujimoto Akio

The International Federation of Film Critics (The FIPRESCI) Award

- Limbo (UK) by Ben Sharrock