Sunday, October 21, 2012

2012 Abu Dhabi Film Festival Winners




Narrative Feature Competition
Black Pearl Award - Best Narrative Film:
Araf/Somewhere in Between, directed by Yeşim Ustağlu (Turkey, Germany, France)
Special Jury Award:
Gebo and the Shadow, directed by Manoel de Oliveira (Portugal, France)
Best Director from the Arab World:
Nouri Bouzid, Hidden Beauties (Tunisia, France, UAE)
Best Actor: Gael García Bernal, No (Chile, US)
Best Actress: Franziska Petri, Betrayal (Russia)
New Horizons Competition
Black Pearl Award – New Horizons:
A Respectable Family, directed by Massoud Bakhshi (France, Iran)
Special Jury Award:
Beasts of the Southern Wild, directed by Benh Zeitlin (US)
Best Film from the Arab World:
When I Saw You, directed by Annemarie Jacir (Jordan, Palestine, UAE)
Best Director from the Arab World:
Hala Lotfy, Coming Forth By Day (Egypt, UAE)
Best Actor:
Søren Malling, A Hijacking (Denmark)
Best Actress:
Golshifteh Farahani, The Patience Stone (Afghanistan, France, Germany)
Special Mention:
A Hijacking, directed by Tobias Lindholm
Documentary Feature Competition
Black Pearl Award – Best Documentary Film:
A World Not Ours, directed by Mahdi Fleifel (Lebanon, UK, UAE)
Special Jury Award:
Stories We Tell, directed by Sarah Polley (Canada)
Best New Director:
Lyubov Arkus, Anton’s Right Here (Russia)
Best Film from the Arab World:
Cursed Be the Phosphate, directed by Sami Tlili (Tunisia, UAE, Lebanon, Qatar)
Best Director from the Arab World:
Wael Omar and Philippe Dib, In Search of Oil and Sand (Egypt, UAE)
Audience Choice Award:
Saving Face, Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy and Daniel Junge (Pakistan, US)
FIPRESCI Awards:
Coming Forth by Day, directed by Hala Lotfy (Egypt, UAE)
A World Not Ours, directed by Mahdi Fleifel (Lebanon, UK, UAE)
NETPAC Award:
A World Not Ours, directed by Mahdi Fleifel (Lebanon, UK, UAE)

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