TAF awards offer a financial reward to winning filmmakers, along with a one-of-a-kind trophy designed by Habiba El-Sayed, a ceramic artist in Toronto. Habiba designed the award to incorporate traditional motifs and more modern aesthetics, landing on “traditional mashrabihya, which are Islamic privacy screens, using a wood finish and incorporating that with a more sleek look of mirror. In this case, the mirror represents the way filmmakers are reflected in the works they create, and the way they reflect the experiences of the world around them.”
NAKHEEL JURY AWARD FOR BEST FEATURE FILM
QAYQUB JURY AWARD FOR BEST CANADIAN SHORT FILM
WINNER
Storm Child
2020 | 12mins | Canada | ArabicStorm Child is a nightmarish incursion in the tormented mind of a four year old child. Yasmine and her family […]
JURY
Maha Al-Saati
Maha Al-Saati is an independent, experimental filmmaker interested in exploring women’s stories in the Arab World. She is a TIFF Filmmaker Lab 2020 […]
Anaïs Elboujdaïni
Anaïs Elboujdaïni is a reporter and the programming director for Vancouver’s MENA Film Festival. She lived and worked for 4 years in […]
Milada Kovacova
Milada Kovacova started as a painter but now makes films and curates. She holds several degrees including a BFA in Film Production from […]JUTHOUR JURY AWARD FOR MOST PROMISING FILMMAKER, SHORT FILM
WINNER فائز
Al-Sit
2020 | 20mins | Sudan, Qatar | ArabicIn a cotton-farming village in Sudan, 15-year-old Nafisa has a crush on Babiker, but her parents have arranged her marriage […]
JURY
Joseph Fahim
Joseph Fahim is an Egyptian film critic and programmer. He is the Arab delegate of the Karlovy Vary Film Festival, the […]
Nehal El-Hadi
Nehal El-Hadi investigates the relationships between the body (racialised, gendered), place (urban, virtual), and technology (internet, health).She completed a Ph.D. in Planning at the University […]
Walid El Khachab
Walid El Khachab has published in Cairo four poetry collections in Arabic: The Dead do not consume (Al Mawta La Yastahlekoon, 2001); She who […]YAMAMA AUDIENCE CHOICE AWARD FOR BEST SHORT FILM
WINNER
Al-Sit
2020 | 20mins | Sudan, Qatar | ArabicIn a cotton-farming village in Sudan, 15-year-old Nafisa has a crush on Babiker, but her parents have arranged her marriage […]