Winner of the Golden Yusr for Best Feature Film and Best Cinematography in Red Sea International Film Festival, Ahmed Yassin Al Daradji’s movie focuses on two kids for the most part, in a way, though, that is as far away from a children’s movie as possible, essentially highlighting life in Iraq in the most eloquent fashion.
Jeddah, Saudi Arabia – December 08: May Odeh, guest, guest, Hussein Mohamad, Director Yassin Al Daradji, guest, guest and Nida Manzoor pose with the award for Best Film for “Hanging Gardens” on the Closing Night Gala Awards at the Red Sea International Film Festival on December 08, 2022 in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. (Photo by Tim P. Whitby/Getty Images for The Red Sea International Film Festival)
Taha (28) and his younger brother As’ad (12) scrape a living searching for discarded metals and plastics at the vast, stinking Baghdad rubbish dump, ironically named for the legendary Hanging Gardens of Babylon.
Jeddah, Saudi Arabia – December 08: May Odeh, guest, guest, Hussein Mohamad, Director Yassin Al Daradji, guest, guest and Nida Manzoor pose with the award for Best Film for “Hanging Gardens” on the Closing Night Gala Awards at the Red Sea International Film Festival on December 08, 2022 in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. (Photo by Tim P. Whitby/Getty Images for The Red Sea International Film Festival)
Taha (28) and his younger brother As’ad (12) scrape a living searching for discarded metals and plastics at the vast, stinking Baghdad rubbish dump, ironically named for the legendary Hanging Gardens of Babylon.
- 12/11/2022
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
Lotfy Nathan receives best director award for ‘Harka’.
Iraqi director Ahmed Yassin Al Daradji’s Baghdad-set feature Hanging Gardens took home the best film award at the 2022 Red Sea International Film Festival, which announced its Yusr award winners on Thursday, December 8.
Hanging Gardens follows a young boy living as a rubbish picker in the dumps of Baghdad, nicknamed the ‘hanging gardens’, who hits the jackpot when he finds discarded US sex doll.
Scroll down for the full list of winners
The Arabic-language film is a Iraq-Palestine-Egypt-uk-Saudi Arabia co-production. The UK producer is Margaret Glover, who also wrote the script with...
Iraqi director Ahmed Yassin Al Daradji’s Baghdad-set feature Hanging Gardens took home the best film award at the 2022 Red Sea International Film Festival, which announced its Yusr award winners on Thursday, December 8.
Hanging Gardens follows a young boy living as a rubbish picker in the dumps of Baghdad, nicknamed the ‘hanging gardens’, who hits the jackpot when he finds discarded US sex doll.
Scroll down for the full list of winners
The Arabic-language film is a Iraq-Palestine-Egypt-uk-Saudi Arabia co-production. The UK producer is Margaret Glover, who also wrote the script with...
- 12/9/2022
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
The Red Sea Film Festival awarded Ahmed Yassin Al Daradji’s “Hanging Gardens” the Golden Yusr for Best Feature Film, the top prize of the festival’s main competition. The film, which was also awarded the Silver Yusr for Best Cinematic Achievement for Duraid Munajim, was selected by a jury led by director Oliver Stone, who was not present at the ceremony but recorded a video introduction where he thanked the festival for the opportunity, calling the movies in competition “eye-opening.”
Other winners include Silver Yusr for Best Actor for Adam Bessa in “Harka,” Silver Yusr for Best Actress for Adila Bendimerad in “The Last Queen,” and Silver Yusr for Best Screenplay to Reza Jamali for “The Childless Village.”
“So many new and good friends! This year it’s my 60th in the film business and I want to share this award with all my fans,” said Academy Award-winning actor Jackie Chan,...
Other winners include Silver Yusr for Best Actor for Adam Bessa in “Harka,” Silver Yusr for Best Actress for Adila Bendimerad in “The Last Queen,” and Silver Yusr for Best Screenplay to Reza Jamali for “The Childless Village.”
“So many new and good friends! This year it’s my 60th in the film business and I want to share this award with all my fans,” said Academy Award-winning actor Jackie Chan,...
- 12/8/2022
- by Rafa Sales Ross
- Variety Film + TV
Yung Chang's This Is Not a Movie is playing on Mubi from April 18 - May 17, 2020 in the Canada Now series.Greetings cinephiles and seekers of truth! I’m thrilled to be presenting my latest film, This Is Not a Movie, with our collaboration with Mubi. This Is Not a Movie is the first feature documentary that I’ve made since my collaborations with Montreal’s EyeSteelFilm. How do you tell a story that spans 40 years of journalism? By assembling a team of creators from producers Anita Lee (Nfb), Allyson Luchak, Nelofer Pazira, and Ingmar Trost to cinematographer Duraid Munajim to editor Mike Munn to my composers Ohad Benchetrit and Justin Small.When I first started researching the film, I imagined that Robert Fisk would be a very somber, brooding, morose character. I thought he would be intimidating. Here’s a dinosaur of journalism, a part of a “lost generation” of reporters,...
- 4/13/2020
- MUBI
Story of two lads from different backgrounds bonding over love of ancient and bloody sport nominated for Academy Award
When a horrified relative saw Jawanmard Paiz begging on the streets of Kabul, dressed in rags and waving an incense burner over cars in return for small change, he came rushing to ask what disaster had befallen the boy's family.
Paiz was born into Kabul's small but growing middle class: his father and uncle are well-known actors and his brothers have followed them into cinema. At 11, the baby of the family was supposed to be at school, not scrabbling for money.
He was, however, thrilled by the question – it proved that his performance was convincing. He was deep in character for a film now nominated for an Oscar, the first time any work shot in Afghanistan has come this close to Hollywood's highest honour.
Buzkashi Boys is the story of two children from different backgrounds,...
When a horrified relative saw Jawanmard Paiz begging on the streets of Kabul, dressed in rags and waving an incense burner over cars in return for small change, he came rushing to ask what disaster had befallen the boy's family.
Paiz was born into Kabul's small but growing middle class: his father and uncle are well-known actors and his brothers have followed them into cinema. At 11, the baby of the family was supposed to be at school, not scrabbling for money.
He was, however, thrilled by the question – it proved that his performance was convincing. He was deep in character for a film now nominated for an Oscar, the first time any work shot in Afghanistan has come this close to Hollywood's highest honour.
Buzkashi Boys is the story of two children from different backgrounds,...
- 2/16/2013
- by Emma Graham-Harrison
- The Guardian - Film News
Dan Sallitt's new film, The Unspeakable Act, marks the return of an underseen, major American filmmaker (long esteemed as one of the superior cinema critics writing in English, often here at The Notebook) with a feature which surely ranks among the richest works of the last several years.
Additionally, the new Sallitt film introduces the world to Tallie Medel, a performer whose intellect, emotive capacity, and force of persona place her in the outstanding category of such ascendant figures as Greta Gerwig and Kate Lyn Sheil while outlining a contour of being, a persuasion, that are hers alone.
The Unspeakable Act has its New York premiere as part of BAMcinemaFest on Sunday, June 24th, and its international premiere at the Edinburgh International Film Festival on Friday, June 29th, with three screenings at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival to follow in July.
The conversation below took place over email across the last two months.
Additionally, the new Sallitt film introduces the world to Tallie Medel, a performer whose intellect, emotive capacity, and force of persona place her in the outstanding category of such ascendant figures as Greta Gerwig and Kate Lyn Sheil while outlining a contour of being, a persuasion, that are hers alone.
The Unspeakable Act has its New York premiere as part of BAMcinemaFest on Sunday, June 24th, and its international premiere at the Edinburgh International Film Festival on Friday, June 29th, with three screenings at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival to follow in July.
The conversation below took place over email across the last two months.
- 6/20/2012
- MUBI
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