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Thirteenth Session

From 2003-12-06 To 2003-12-13


Damas Film Festival Third Session

The Jury of Feature Film :

Shella Whitaker

Chairperson

Cinema Researcher

UK

Marion Hansel

Member

Director

Belgium

Moufida Tlatli

Member

Director

Tunis

Isatou Diop

Member

Actress

Senegal

Ilham Shahin

Member

Actress

Egypt

Salma Al-Masri

Member

Actress

Syria

Sofia Papachristou

Member

Director

Greece

Niki Karimi

Member

Actress

Iran

Nahla Kamel

Member

Journalist

Syria

Sonia Herman Dolz

Member

Director

Netherlands


The Jury of Short Film :

Peter Schepelern

Cinema Researcher

Denmark 

Denise York

Director

South Africa

Fat'hi Al-Kharrat

Director

Tunis

Hassan Sami Yousif

writer

Syria

Bilal Al-Sabouni

Director

Syria


Awards (Feature Film):

Gold Prize:

Takeshi Kitano

Dolls

Japan

 

Silver Prize & Best Arab Film:

Faouzi Ben Saidi

A Thousand and One Months

Morocco

 

Bronze Prize:

Carlos Sorin

Historias Minimas

Argentina

 

 

The Jury's Special Prize:

 

Abdullatif Abdulhamid

Our Listeners' Request

Syria

 


Awards (Short Film):

Gold Prize:

Pamela Espinoza

Winter Station

Chile

 

Silver Prize:

Hans Peter Mouland

The Best Die First

Norway

 

Bronze Prize:

Ghassan Shmeit

Flowers and Thorns

Syria

 

The Jury Special Prize:

Jurgen Leth

New Scenes from America

Denmark

 

Sections :

 


the note :

- The Award for Acting goes to: The ensemble cast of Egyptian Film (Sleepless Nights).

- A Certificate of Appreciation is awarded to: Jurgen Langhelle, in the role of the father, and Vera Rudi in the role of the daughter, in the film (Hold My Heart), Norway.

- A Certificate of Appreciation is awarded to: The subject of the egyptian film (Indian Movie) directed by Mounir Radi.

 


Awards (Short Film):

Gold Prize:

Pamela Espinoza

Winter Station

Chile

 

Silver Prize:

Hans Peter Mouland

The Best Die First

Norway

 

Bronze Prize:

Ghassan Shmeit

Flowers and Thorns

Syria

 

The Jury Special Prize:

Jurgen Leth

New Scenes from America

Denmark

 


Sections :

Cannes Festival Golden Palm Award Winners

A Chronicle of Algerian Cinema

Egyptian Cinema 2002/2003

Indian Cinema, Past & Present

Silent German Cinema

Diamond Jubilee of Syrian Cinema

Woman & the Cinema

A Choice of Italian Cinema

A Chronicle of French Cinema

Alfred Hitchcock

Taviani Brothers Cinema

Hussein Kamal

Shakespeare in Cinema

Childhood Cinema

International Film Market

Nicole Kidman

Sergei Paradjanov

Festival of Vestivals

Michael Cacoyannis

Anna Magnani

 

Seminars:

- Women in Arab Cinema .. Cause or Merchandise


Hommage :

The Syrian actor and theatrical director Asaad Fedda

-The Arab Actress Nabila Obeid

-The Greek film director Mikhael Cacoyanis

-The French actress Michel Mercier

-Homage was also paid to the following Syrian artists, on the Syrian Cinema Diamond Jubilee, and was introduced to the audience:

Mouna Wassif, Mohamad Al-Rawwas, Mohamad Kheir Helwani, Marwan Akkawi, and Nader Atassi, among those alive; Said Murad and Khaled Hamadeh among the deceased.

- The former directors of the Damascus Film Festival: Mohamad Shahin, Ftayyeh Okla Arsan, Tahssin Olama, and Marwan Haddad.

- The late director Hussein Kamal

- Syrian actress Raghda

- Egyptian Actress Nelly

- Director of Venice International Film Festival Moritz De Halden

 

 


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Tunisian director Taieb Alwahshee

 

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