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‘Glad Holidays’ Takes Prime Honors

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Scandar Copti’s “Glad Holidays” received high honors on the Marrakech Movie Pageant on Saturday, capping an emotional and politically resonant ceremony whereas including Marrakech’s Étoile d’Or to a listing of accolades that additionally consists of greatest screenplay from Venice’s Orizzonti and greatest in present from the Thessaloniki Movie Pageant.

The acclaimed title additionally claimed a shared greatest actress prize for leads Manar Shehab and Wafaa Aoun.

Break up into 4 chapters, the Palestinian movie follows an ensemble of characters – Arab and Jewish alike – dwelling in modern Haifa. Household secrets and techniques and home tensions underscore scenes from on a regular basis life because the movie traces out an expansive social circle with a novelistic consideration to cultural and interpersonal dynamics.       

This 12 months’s jury – led by Luca Guadagnino alongside Andrew Garfield, Jacob Elordi, Virginie Efira, Patricia Arquette, Zoya Akhtar, Ali Abbasi, Nadia Kounda and Santiago Mitre – collectively awarded the profitable title with a unanimous vote.

Virginie Efira, Manar Shehab, and Andrew Garfield

As she accepted the award on behalf of her filmmaking associate, screenwriter Mona Copti forged her pleasure for the accolades in opposition to the harsher actuality of the continuing warfare in Gaza.

“How did we get right here,” she requested. “How did dehumanization grow to be normalized? How have killing, destruction, and martyrdom grow to be nearly acceptable? How did we lose our ethical compass and attain this level of moral collapse?”

“We hope this movie gives some solutions to those questions by shedding gentle on the repercussions of indoctrination in societies and its affect on particular person conduct—notably in communities the place ladies stay constrained by customs and traditions that deny them private freedom above all else. Our wrestle is interconnected, and true liberation can’t be achieved in isolation. None of us is actually free till all of us are.”

Certainly, practically all of the night time’s speeches carried a political cost. As director Silvina Schnicer accepted the jury prize for her movie “The Cottage” – an honor the movie shared with Mo Harawe’s “The Village Subsequent to Paradise” – the Argentine auteur decried the heavy hand of her nation’s Javier Milei authorities, particularly in the case of chopping cinema funding.

Lastly, Polish drama “Beneath the Volcano” was the night time’s different massive winner, claiming the director prize for filmmaker Damian Kocur and the perfect actor trophy for star Roman Lutskyi. In one other riveting speech, the actor devoted his award to the armed forces of Ukraine.

For its twenty first version, the Marrakech Movie Pageant exceeded 40,000 attendees, marking a 5000-admission enhance from the earlier 12 months’s file, with younger adults and college students from Moroccan movie faculties in giant components accounting for the surge. Alongside its wider outreach packages, Marrakech additionally launched an expanded pageant hub that unfold out over a half-mile, incorporating new venues whereas fostering a extra vibrant and encompassing environment.

Awards season hopefuls like Walter Salles’ “I’m Nonetheless Right here” and Gints Zilbalodis’ “Circulate” screened for rapturous crowds, whereas Jean-Claude Barny’s political biopic “Fanon” made its world premiere – bolstering the pageant’s status as a continental showcase for African cinema. 

Pursuant to these targets, the pageant will double down on its Atlas Distribution Award – a current initiative meant to gasoline wider home and worldwide distribution for the Moroccan, Arab and Pan-African movies introduced in Marrakech.  22 titles from this 12 months’s choice might be eligible for Atlas assist, together with the night time’s massive winner.

“We realized that these initiatives, exterior of their time in festivals, have been usually not distributed within the Arab world or in Africa,” says pageant coordinator Ali Hajji. “To make sure the viability and longevity — each culturally and economically — we noticed the necessity to create a distribution system to higher attain these audiences. Fairly merely, we wish Arab and African audiences to see these movies.”

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