Posters for the Arab documentary films in competition at the Amman International Film Festival. (Credit: Courtesy of the Amman International Film Festival)
At the Amman International Film Festival – Awal Film ("First Film"), Lebanese director Cyril Aris won the Black Iris and the Audience Award on Monday night for "A Sad and Beautiful World," while lead actor Hasan Akil was named Best Actor, concluding a seventh edition that drew record attendance. Beyond the awards, the selection confirmed a deeper trend: Across the Arab competitions, in both fiction and documentary, the films captured the same pulse — a sense of daily life suspended above a volcano of wars, crises and cities changing at dizzying speed. In the arts The pine as common ground: Lebanon and Italy in paintings That tone also embodied the spirit of the festival's seventh edition: an elegant yet understated event, stripped of pomp and offering audiences a space for both gathering and reflection, on...
At the Amman International Film Festival – Awal Film ("First Film"), Lebanese director Cyril Aris won the Black Iris and the Audience Award on Monday night for "A Sad and Beautiful World," while lead actor Hasan Akil was named Best Actor, concluding a seventh edition that drew record attendance. Beyond the awards, the selection confirmed a deeper trend: Across the Arab competitions, in both fiction and documentary, the films captured the same pulse — a sense of daily life suspended above a volcano of wars, crises and cities changing at dizzying speed. In the arts The pine as common ground: Lebanon and Italy in paintings That tone also embodied the spirit of the festival's seventh edition: an elegant yet understated event, stripped of pomp and offering audiences a space for both gathering and reflection,...
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