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\n\tLebanese Canadian director Katia Jarjoura\u2019s drama Robbing Beirut<\/a><\/em> has received the highest $75,000 in-development prize within the Red Sea<\/a> Souk undertaking market, presenting 31 characteristic movies and 7 sequence tasks inside Saudi Arabia<\/a>\u2019s Red Sea International Film Festival.<\/p>\n \n\tSet towards the backdrop of Lebanon\u2019s financial disaster, the film revolves round a girl who decides to rob a financial institution after it refuses at hand over her $30,00 financial savings deposit, which she must pay for medical therapy for her sister.<\/p>\n \n\tThe movie marks Jarjoura\u2019s first fiction characteristic after quite a few documentaries together with Goodbye Murbarak<\/em>, The Road to Kerbala <\/em>and most not too long ago, Escape,<\/em> about Syrian artists dwelling in exile. <\/p>\n \n\tRunners-up for the in-development prizes have been Indonesian director Makbul Mubarak\u2019s Watch It Burn<\/em>, which clinched a $20,000 award, and Afghan director Aboozar Amini\u2019s Tahmina<\/em>, which received the $20,000 third prize.<\/p>\n \n\tMubarak beforehand made waves with debut movie Autobiography<\/em>, which premiered in Venice\u2019s Horizons sidebar in 2022, profitable the Fipresci jury prize. His new undertaking follows a Indonesian household struggling to maintain their clove farm afloat as a nickel mining increase of their distant space threatens to destroy their village\u2019s previous lifestyle.<\/p>\n \n\tSet towards the backdrop of a wave of suicide assaults on public buildings in Kabul, Tahmin<\/em>a revolves round a girl, who’s secretly a Persian goddess from the Hindu Kush Mountains and has a particular energy for finding physique elements and bringing victims again to life.<\/p>\n \n\tAmini, who moved to the Netherlands as a baby and studied filmmaking on the London Film School, has beforehand distinguished himself with Kabul, City within the Wind<\/em>, which opened IDFA in 2018, and received the particular jury prize and finest first movie at CPH: Dox in 2019. <\/p>\n \n\tThe in-development jury comprised a trio of producers: Guatamala\u2019s Elisa Fernanda Pirir (St\u00e6r), Lebanon\u2019s Georges Schoucair (Abbout Productions) and France\u2019s Louise Bellicaud (In Vivo Films).<\/p>\n \n\tThe Work in Progress\/Post-Production awards have been determined by filmmaker and cinematographer Martika Ramirez Escobar, who hails from the Philippines; Directors\u2019 Fortnight Managing Director Christophe Leparc, who can also be head of Cinemed, and British Moroccan filmmaker Fyzal Boulifa.<\/p>\n \n\tThey awarded the highest $40,000 post-production prize to Georgian director Levan Koguashvili\u2019s drama Guria<\/em>. After his award-winning 2021 Brooklyn-set drama Brighton 4th<\/em>, this new characteristic sees the filmmaker return to Georgia for a portrait of a forsaken city within the west of the nation within the Nineteen Nineties, within the wake of the collapse of the Soviet Union.<\/p>\n \n\tIn the identical class, Chinese artist and filmmaker Qiu JiongJiong acquired a $15,000 jury particular point out for black comedy Fuxi,<\/em> spanning 4 weird tales via the ages from the southwestern province of Sichuan.<\/p>\n \n\tIn different awards, Lebanese director Estephan Khattar scooped the highest $10,000 SeriesLab Jury prize for Saria Othman Needs No Man<\/em> a few 46-year-old lady who secretly enrols in an performing college, the place most the scholars are greater than half her age, to pursue her long-held dream of turning into an actress.<\/p>\n \n\tTwo $5,000 SeriesLab Awards additionally went to Indian crime drama Cold Case One<\/em> by Nithin Lukose and Hari Kirishnan and Generation-A, a supernatural Kenyan coming of age present by Mona Ombogo.<\/p>\n \n\tThe SeriesLab jury was made up of producer Diego Ram\u00edrez Schrempp (Narcos, One Hundred Years Of Solitude), Channel Zero Studios head Jennifer Chen and Lebanese screenwriter and creativity coach Nadia Tabbara.<\/p>\n \n\tA quartet of tasks taking part within the Red Sea Lodge, a residency program in partnership with the TorinoFilmLab and sponsored by Film AlUla, additionally received awards, determined by the in-development jury<\/p>\n \n\tThey have been Mahamed Al\u2019Omda\u2019s Blue Card<\/em> ($70,000), Lydia Matata\u2019s Pepo Kali<\/em> ($50,000), Jawahine Zentar\u2019s The Silent Ones<\/em> and ($40,000) and Rulan Hasan\u2019s Close Rose Close<\/em>.<\/p>\n \n\tThere was additionally one other dozen money and in-kind prizes handed out by a raft of sponsors together with the Arab Cinema Center, Filmmore, Freshly Ground Stories, Ithra, Ambient Light, Rotana Studios and Titrafilm.<\/p>\n