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Tunisian filmmaker Kaouther Ben Hania’s Oscar-nominated documentary Four Daughters and Sudanese director Mohamed Kordofani’s Lupita Nyong’o-EPed drama Goodbye Julia lead the nominations in the eighth edition of the Critics Awards for Arab Films.
Hybrid work Four Daughters, exploring the story of a real-life Tunisian mother who lost two of her daughters to ISIS after they were radicalized by a local preacher, world premiered in Competition in Cannes last year.
The film won Cannes’ Golden Eye for Best Documentary and also went on to be nominated for Best Documentary at the 2024 Academy Awards.
Kordofani’s Khartoum-set drama Goodbye Julia was also at Cannes in 2023, making history as the first Sudanese film to play in the festival across its 76 editions, with a debut in Un Certain Regard. It represented Sudan at in the 2023-24 Oscar race but was not nominated.
Set against the backdrop of the 2011 South Sudan Independence referendum, the drama explores the country’s North-South divide through the complex relationship between two women from either side.
Both films scored nominations in seven categories.
Other frontrunners include Egyptian director Abu Bakr Shawky’s Hajjan, set against the Saudi camel racing scene; Jordanian filmmaker Amjad Al-Rasheed’s female inheritance drama Inshallah A Boy, and Palestinian-British director Farah Nabulsi’s The Teacher, starring Saleh Bakri as a West Bank teacher committed to political resistance.
The Critics Awards for Arab Films are an initiative of promotional body the Arab Cinema Centre and its co-founders Alaa Karkouti and Maher Diab.
This year’s edition is open to all Arab films which premiered outside of the Arab World in 2023. They are being voted on by a jury committee of 209
Chorlton's beloved pizza haven Double Zero has once again found itself in the limelight after learning of another prestigious nomination.
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