The Hungarian film “Six Weeks” by director Noemi Veronica Saccone won the Grand Prize for Best Feature Film at the 16th International Women’s Film Festival in Salé, which closed the day before yesterday in Morocco.
The jury awarded its special award to the film “Blackbird Blackbird Blackberry” by Georgian director Ellen Navriani, and awarded the first work award to the American film “Fancy Dance” directed by Erica Tremblay.
The committee gave special mention to the Moroccan film “The Divorced Women of Casablanca” by director Mohamed Ahed Bensouda. In the documentary competition, the grand prize was won by the film “Seven Winters in Tehran” by German director Steffi Niedersoll.
Festival Director Abdul Latif Al-Assadi said, “We bid farewell to this session after we have accumulated a lot of experience and achieved new gains to support freedom of expression, cultural diversity, and the issue of parity in cinema.”
