Ibrahim Omars projectDry Skywon Best Pitch at theIDFAForum Awards presented in Amsterdam on Wednesday.
IDFA Forum introduced a new honor this year the Producers Connection Award.
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Dry Skyreceived a 2024 IDFA Bertha Fund grant.
‘Dry Sky’IDFA
However, he faces a fate intertwined with the memories of the past in the village.
Alongside his friend and their donkey, he strives relentlessly to break free from this constraint.
Told through a unique and critical inside perspective we look forward to a collective endeavor to imagine new futures.
‘Concrete Land’IDFA
It takes a village.
The jury additionally recognizedConcrete Landby Asmahan Bkerat andThe Beauty of Errorsby Jukka Karkkainen with Special Mentions for Best Pitch.
The jurors said, Very special mentions toConcrete LandandThe Beauty of Errorsfor their respective heartfelt films and pitches.
Burcu Melekoglu and Mandisa Zitha sat on the IDFA Rough Cut Award jury.
Lana Y. Daher masterfully weaves a delicate and poignant story of a city and its heartbreaking yet resilient history.
The work stands as a testament to the power of memory and art in navigating collective grief and renewal.
Its messaging is experiential rather than didactic, making it appropriate for all kinds of audiences and demographics.
Bianca Oana and Daan Vermeulen served as jurors for the Producers Connection Award.
They said of Yara CostasLooking for the Mermaid, The world is disappearing before our eyes.
That is a strong statement in itself.
We hope this incentive will spark interest for the creative collaborations the filmmaker is looking for.
