The film “Issa” wins its 7th award at this festival

2023-11-01 12:13:14

The Egyptian-French film “Issa” or “I Promise you Paradise” continues to win more international awards, the most recent of which is that it won the Best Cinematography Award from the 17th Byron International Film Festival, held in Australia.

The producing company expressed its happiness with the award, and the film will be shown at the Clapham International Film Festival in Britain, and will be part of the official competition of the 14th Macau International Short Film Festival.

This award joins the six previous awards that the film previously won, as it won the Best Short Film Award at the 71st Melbourne International Film Festival in Australia, and it also won the Audience Award at the 76th Cannes Film Festival, and it also won at the same festival. It won the Golden Ryle Award, which is awarded to the best short film in the Critics’ Week competition at the Cannes Film Festival, as well as the Audience Award from the Valbonne Film Festival, the Jury Award from the Bucharest Film Festival, and the Best Filmography from the “Svaneti” Film Festival in Georgia, among other awards.

The film’s story revolves around a 17-year-old African immigrant in Egypt, who tries to race once morest time following a violent accident to save his loved ones, no matter the cost.

The film, which is an Egyptian-French production, stars Kenny Marcelino and Kenzi Mohamed, and is directed by Egyptian Murad Mostafa, who also participated in writing the script with Sawsan Youssef, director of photography, Mostafa Al-Kashef, and editing by Mohamed Mamdouh.

The Cairo International Film Festival chose the film “Issa” to compete in the short film competition, in the 45th session of the festival, which was postponed due to the tragic events that the Palestinian people are going through.

“Issa,” directed by Murad Mustafa, is the fourth short film through which he attempts to continue the goal he set out in his three previous works, “Hannah Ward,” “What We Don’t Know About Maryam,” and “Khadija,” which is to address and tell stories. About Africans living in Egypt.

Murad Mostafa lives in the popular “Ain Shams” neighborhood in Cairo, an area where the largest concentration of Africans in Egypt lives, so through his films he wants to present different stories that take place in Egypt, but with different eyes.

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