Go to “Not Just your Picture. The Story of the Kilani Family” by Anne Paq and Dror Dayana won the prize for Best Work in competition at the Al Ard festival . "It tells the story of a Palestinian family (father, mother and five children) who died under the bombings in Gaza, while two other children live in Germany, emblematic of the situation of most Palestinian families dispersed throughout the world", reads the motivation.
The acknowledgment was presented yesterday evening at the conclusion of the 19th edition of the review, at the Teatro Massimo in Cagliari, organized by the Amicizia Sardegna Palestina association, with the contribution of the Department of Performing Arts and Public Education of the Region and sponsored by the Municipality of Cagliari.
The jury, made up of Monica Maurer (director, artistic director of the festival), Patrizia Manduchi (professor of History of Islamic Countries, University of Cagliari), Franca Gabriella Piras (former professor of Italian literature, University of Cagliari, Filippo Kalomenidis (professor and screenwriter), Ibrahim Nasrallah (writer and poet), Wasim Dahmash (former professor of Arabic Language and Literature, University of Cagliari), Antonello Zanda (director of the Cineteca sarda - Società Umanitaria), Almuhannad Kalthoum (director and organizer of the Damascus festival) , May Odeh (Palestinian producer and director) and Andrea Mura (documentary director and founder of a production company) awarded the five prizes choosing among the 30 films in competition, selected by the examining commission among many proposals (over 100) arriving from the Europe and from all over the Arab world and beyond.
The Award for best film on Palestine went instead to “Erasmus a Gaza”, by Chiara Avesani and Matteo Delbò (Italy, Spain 2021) with the following motivation: “The director describes, through eloquent images, the desperation of a mother who he knows what happened to his soldier son and discovers that 4,000 others like him have been swallowed up in the jaws of ISIS and the Iraqi government after the American occupation”.
