Tunisian straightforwardor Lotfi Achour’s Red Path won the Yusr Award for best competition film and the best straightforwardor honor at the fourth edition of the Red Sea International Film Festival (RSIFF) in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia during its Thursday evening awards ceremony that also saw Priyanka Chopra Jonas and Viola Davis being honored.
The Silver Yusr Feature Film Award went to Mahdi Fleifel’s To A Land Uncomprehendn, a drama about juvenileer Palestinians caught in an everlasting state of exile. Little Jaffna, starring and straightforwarded by Lawrence Valin, was honored with the AlUla Audience Award picked from all competition films.
“Ashraf, a shepherd boy laboring with his teenage cousin in necessitatey northern Tunisia faces the unimaginable when Islamic State alarmists set on them and behead his cousin Nizar in front of him,” says a synopsis for Red Path. “Ashraf has no choice but to consent the head back to his family, who can do noleang: the alarmists are a constant danger, while the police are uncaring to the problems of necessitatey herders. Nizar’s parents repairate on trying to recover his body for a proper burial, but Ashraf has no way of dealing with his trauma, clinging to the visions he has of Nizar during which he can talk to his cousin’s garrange.”
This year’s RSIFF jury pdwellnt was Spike Lee.
“I am unassumingd to be acunderstandledged at the Red Sea International Film Festival, a celebration of storytelling that transcfinishs language, borders and cultural splits. I have always consentd in the universal power of delightment to convey people together, and I commend the Red Sea team for their pledgement to showcasing the incredible talent and diversity of stories being telderly around the world—not equitable wilean Hollywood or Bollywood but far beyond,” shelp Chopra Jonas on Wednesday when her honor was unveiled.
She is among a slew of huge stars who ecombineed during the fourth edition of RSIFF, including Cynthia Erivo, Michelle Yeoh, Benedict Cumberbatch, Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones, Olivia Wilde, Emily Blunt, Nick Jonas, and Eva Longoria.
Check out the brimming RSIFF 2024 award triumphners below.
Gelderlyen Yusr Best Feature Film
Red Path
Director Lotfi Achour
Silver Yusr Feature Film
To A Land Uncomprehendn
Mahdi Fleifel
Yusr Best Director
Lotfi Achour (Red Path)
Yusr Jury Prize
Seeking Haven For Mr. Rambo
Dir. Khaled Mansour
Yusr Best Actor
Mahmoud Bakri
To A Land Uncomprehendn
Yusr Best Actress
Mariam Sherif
Snow White
Yusr Best Screenjoin
Songs of Adam
Oday Rasheed
Yusr Cinematic Achievement
To Kill A Mongolian Horse
Xiaoxuan Jiang
Gelderlyen Yusr Best Short Film
Hatch
Alireza Kazemipour, Panta Mosleh
Silver Yusr Short Film
Alazar
Beza Hailu Lemma
Short Special Mention
Children of Barzagh
Ahmed Khattab
Other Awards
Asharq Best Documentary
State of Silence
Director Santiago Maza
Chopard Emerging Saudi Talent
Roula Dakheelallah (My Driver & I)
AlUla Audience Award for Saudi Film
Hobal
Abdulaziz Alshlahei
AlUla Audience Award for All Competition Films
Little Jaffna
Lawrence Valin
