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
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A Second Life
2021 | 92mins | Tunisia | EnglishGadeha (12) happens one day to be the victim of a car accident. He undergoes surgery. Penniless, his mother, Borkana, […]
HONOURABLE MENTION
Algerian Chronicles
2021 | 74mins | France | Arabic, FrenchSummer 2019, Zak wanders around the streets of Alger and dives into the Hirak, a series of protests happening in […]
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Dima Toukan
Dima Toukan has over 20 years experience in the audio visual industry and is an award-winning creative producer. She has worked with […]
Chafic Tabbara
Chafic Tabbara is a Lebanese Film critic, who writes for many newspapers and magazines. He writes weekly for «Alakhbar» Newspaper in […]
Mervat Aksoy
Mervat Aksoy is a Jordanian producer who has worked on a variety of projects, both regional and international. She began […]QAYQUB JURY AWARD FOR BEST CANADIAN SHORT FILM
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Brown Bread & Apricots
2020 | 8mins | Canada, Jordan | ArabicIn the absence of his parents, an unruly teenager is presented with a crucial test of character devised by his […]
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Toleen Touq
Toleen Touq is a curator, cultural producer and facilitator working between Toronto, Canada and Amman, Jordan. In Amman, she is co-founding […]
Nahed Mansour
Nahed Mansour is a Toronto-based multidisciplinary artist, curator, programmer, and arts-administrator. She currently serves as the Curator of Programs and Education […]
Yasmeen Nematt Alla
Yasmeen Nematt Alla (she/her) is an Egyptian immigrant and settler living in Tkaronto, Turtle Island (colonially known as Toronto, Ontario). She […]JUTHOUR JURY AWARD FOR MOST PROMISING FILMMAKER, SHORT FILM
WINNER فائز
Warsha
2022 | 16mins | Lebanon | ArabicA Syrian migrant working as a crane operator in Beirut volunteers to cover a shift on one of the most […]
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Kelly Lui
Kelly Lui is the Distribution Coordinator at Ouat Media, a Toronto-based distribution and sales company that specializes in short film. Recognized internationally […]
Robert Abboud
Robert Abboud is an Audio-Visual Director (Film, TV, Immersive Experiences) with a demonstrated history of working in the media and entertainment […]
Nashwa Lina Khan
Nashwa Lina Khan is a community educator, facilitator, and researcher. She is also a writer and poet and occasionally dabbles in […]YAMAMA AUDIENCE CHOICE AWARD FOR BEST SHORT FILM
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Galb’Echaouf
2021 | 18mins | Morocco | ArabicWhile investigating on an event that profoundly changed the landscape of the Occidental Sahara, the filmmaker was faced with a […]
HONOURABLE MENTION
Nightfall
2021 | 26mins | France | ArabicOn the 13th of July 2011, during a demonstration against the regime of Bashar al-Assad in Damascus, the Syrian authorities […]