‘Joint Possession’ movie wins Cinegouna platform award

CAIRO - 11 September 2017: The feature movie “Joint Possession” won the Cinegouna platform award affiliated to El Gouna Film Festival for Best Movie, and an award of $5,000.

The film was directed by the Moroccan director Leila Kilani and revolves around a family struggling with the encroachment of real-estate developers on their land and the fate of their old manor.

“Joint possession” is one of the Arab film projects participating in the fifth edition of the Italian film workshop “Final Cut in Venice.” The workshop ran from September 3-5. The workshop exists for the express goal of finishing up movies in post-production from Africa, Syria, Palestine, Iraq, Jordan and Lebanon, helping to give young global filmmakers a head start.

Egypt's contribution in the workshop titled “Dream Away” is jointly directed by Egyptian Marouan Omara and German Johanna Domke; it is an Egyptian-Qatari-German production. The film is a documentary drama about Sharm El-Sheikh, exploring how the employees of a hotel at a resort are dealing with the aftermath of the terror attacks and the complex lives they lead, pulled in opposing directions by family and the Western lifestyle.


Other participating movies include Naziha Arebi's “Freedom Films,” a documentary about a group of Libyan women who wish to become Libya's first female football team, and Sudanese director Hajooj Kuka's film “A Kasha” that follows a Sudanese war hero as he attempts to reunite with his girlfriend.