GFF: Sudanese, Tunisian Films Win Awards

Two Sudanese and Tunisian films won awards, each worth $50,000 in marketing grants for sales and distribution, at the CineGouna SpringBoard Awards as part of the sixth edition of the CineGouna SpringBoard Festival. El Gouna Film Festival, which ran from December 14 to 21.

The first prize was won by the Sudanese drama film “Spectres of the Whale” directed by Ahmed Mahmoud, and produced by Mohamed Al-Omda of the Sudanese production company “Station Films”, the production company that produced Mohamed Kordofani’s award-winning film “Goodbye, Julia” - for which Sudan was nominated for an Oscar - And so is Amr. Jamal's "The Heavy", which won the Amnesty International Prize at the Berlinale, is Yemen's entry for the Oscars

As for the second award, the Tunisian film Moufida Fadela received “Girl of the Wind,” produced by Mehdi Hameli, in his third collaboration with Fadela after “Li La” (2011), “Aya” (2017), and “Streams” (2022).

Both awards were awarded to the Egyptian company MAD Solutions, which has become one of the largest film distributors in the Arabic-speaking world. It has become more and more involved in the production and packaging of international cinema films.

The company's award comes within the company's strategy to support the Arab film industry in its various stages of production.