Ajyal Film Festival 2023

Doha Tribecca Film Festival 2010

Arab Film Competition

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    Yosra

    Actress (Jury President)

    Yosra is one of the major cinema figures in the Arab world...
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    Having held the lead roles in numerous films, she has been granted over fifty cinema awards. She has also starred in highly popular serial television dramas and released an album as a singer. Yosra represented the Egyptian actors to discuss potential improvements of their professional conditions with President Mubarak. As a UNDP good will ambassador, she actively fights against human trafficking, poverty and child abuse. She also supports street children, as well as various educational and environmental causes.

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    Salma Hayek

    Actress

    Academy Award nominated actress Salma Hayek Pinault has proven herself as a prolific actress, producer...
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    director, and activist. She received an Academy Award Nomination, a Golden Globe Nomination, a SAG Nomination, and a BAFTA Nomination for Best Actress for the title role in Julie Taymor’s Frida. She produced the highly successful series Ugly Betty for American television and won an Emmy for her directorial debut, The Maldinado Miracle. Hayek continues to support, educate and fight for such causes as life-threatening maternal and neonatal tetanus; domestic violence education, awareness and prevention; as well as various humanitarian and environmental causes.

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  • Danis Tanovic

    Filmmaker

    Forced to stop his university studies during the siege of Sarajevo during the Bosnian War...
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    Bosnian film director and screenwriter Danis Tanovic went on a dangerous two-year mission to follow the Army closely with a camera crew to produce documentary footage. Tanovic’s first narrative feature, No Man’s Land, won a total of 42 awards, including the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film in 2001, the European Film Academy Award for Best Screenplay, and the Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 2002.

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    Nick Moran

    Actor/Filmmaker

    As an actor Nick Moran made his name with roles in hit films such as Guy Ritchie’s Lock, Stock,...
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    and Two Smoking Barrels. In 2008, Moran marked his directorial debut with Telstar, the story of songwriter and music producer Joe Meek which he co-wrote and directed for both stage and screen. The Kid, his second feature film as a director, screens at Doha Tribeca Film Festival 2010.

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  • Bhavna Talwar

    Filmmaker

    Bhavna Talwar, the renowned and critically acclaimed National Award winning director,...
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    is amongst the new breed of Indian directors, blending Indian storytelling and sensitivity with Western technique and style. A Gucci Group Award Nominee at Venice, Bhavna’s debut film, Dharm, has received raving reviews from critics and the media alike, and was chosen as the closing film at the World Cinema Section at the Cannes Film Festival 2007.

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