El Gouna 2023: The Awards
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VERDICT: ’Goodbye, Julia’, a Sudanese film about two women divided by their cultures. won the Cinema for Humanity Audience Award while Egyptian Ibrahim Nash’at’s ‘Hollywoodgate’ won as best documentary and Hong Sang-soo’s latest ‘In Our Day’ got the best narrative nod.
EL GOUNA GOLD STAR FOR BEST NARRATIVE FILM
IN OUR DAY
directed by Hong Sangsoo
South Korea
EL GOUNA SILVER STAR FOR NARRATIVE FILM
A GREYHOUND OF A GIRL
directed by Enzo D’Alò
Italy
EL GOUNA BRONZE STAR FOR NARRATIVE FILM was awarded to
A STRANGE PATH
directed by Guto Parente from Brazil
EL GOUNA STAR FOR BEST ARAB NARRATIVE FILM
TRANSIENT HAPPINESS
directed by Sina Muhammed
Iraq
EL GOUNA STAR FOR BEST ACTRESS
Parwin Rajabi in TRANSIENT HAPPINESS
directed by Sina Muhammed
Iraq
EL GOUNA STAR FOR BEST ACTOR
Bottsooj Uortaikh in IF ONLY I COULD HIBERNATE
directed by Zoljargal Purevdash
Mongolia
THE CINEMA FOR HUMANITY AUDIENCE AWARD
GOODBYE JULIA (WADA’N JULIA)
directed by Mohamed Kordofani
Sudan
EL GOUNA GOLD STAR FOR DOCUMENTARY FILM
HOLLYWOODGATE
directed by Ibrahim Nash’at.
EL GOUNA SILVER STAR FOR DOCUMENTARY FILM.
ex-aequo to:
NON-ALIGNED: SCENES FROM THE LABUDOVIC REELS
directed by Mila Turajlic
Serbia
&
SEVEN WINTERS IN TEHRAN
directed by Steffi Niederzoll
Germany
EL GOUNA BRONZE STAR FOR DOCUMENTARY FILM
ON THE ADAMANT
directed by Nicolas Philibert
France
EL GOUNA STAR FOR BEST ARAB DOCUMENTARY FILM
MACHTAT
directed by Sonia Ben Slama
Tunisia
THE EL GOUNA GREEN STAR AWARD
THE BURITI FLOWER
directed by João Salaviza and Renée Nader Messora
Brazil
EL GOUNA GOLDEN STAR FOR SHORT FILM
CROSS MY HEART AND HOPE TO DIE
directed by Sam Manacsa
Philippines
EL GOUNA SILVER STAR FOR SHORT FILMS
THE RED SEA MAKES ME WANNA CRY
directed by Faris Alrjoob
Jordan
EL GOUNA BRONZE STAR FOR SHORT FILM
AT LAST, THE DAY
directed by Carolina Vergara
Argentina
EL GOUNA STAR FOR BEST ARAB SHORT
LES CHENILLES
directed by Michelle & Noel Keserwany
Lebanon (France)
FIPRESCI PRIZE
HOLLYWOODGATE
directed by Ibrahim Nash’at
Germany
