Best Film: Stories Only Exist When Remembered, directed by Julie Murat (Brazil, Argentina, France)“It was a unanimous decision by the jury to award this the Best Film prize. It's a film that opened a window onto a new perspective of both life and death. At once subtle but full of emotion, the story is universal and resonates days after the viewing experience.”-ADFF PRESSphoto by Vanessa McMahon
Best Film: Stories Only Exist When Remembered, directed by Julie Murat (Brazil, Argentina, France)“It was a unanimous decision by the jury to award this the Best Film prize. It's a film that opened a window onto a new perspective of both life and death. At once subtle but full of emotion, the story is universal and resonates days after the viewing experience.”-ADFF PRESSphoto by Vanessa McMahon
Best Producer from the Arab World: Souney Kadouh, This Narrow Place (Lebanon, USA)“For an independent spirit and a determined effort”-ADFF PRESSphoto by Vanessa McMahon
Best Producer from the Arab World: Souney Kadouh, This Narrow Place (Lebanon, USA)“For an independent spirit and a determined effort”-ADFF PRESSphoto by Vanessa McMahon
Best Actress (split prize): Memona Mohamed, Tears of Sand (Spain)“For skillful achievement and a graceful simplicity in creating a complex, understated and unexpected performance” Sonia Guedes, Stories Exist Only When Remembered (Brazil, Argentina, France) “For an elegant performance played with a haunting resonance and ageless gravitas”-ADFF PRESSphoto by Vanessa McMahon
Best Actor: Maged El Kedwany, Asma’a (Egypt)“A natural and restrained performance bringing to life a character with human complexity and emotional conflict”-ADFF PRESSphoto by Vanessa McMahon
Best Documentary: Position Among the Stars, directed by Leonard Retel Helmrich (Netherlands)“Its distinguished cinematic language, the visualization and the way the life of a family is presented in this film takes us to their world and lets us experience the complexities of the society they lived in – with a sense of humor that turns their tragedy into happy moments.”-ADFF PRESSphoto by Vanessa McMahon
NETPAC Award: Marathon Boy, directed by Gemma Atwal “For the great Indian story of a child told locally, but brilliantly integrated into the problems of Asian societies”-ADFF PRESS photo by Vanessa McMahon
From ADFF 2011 press:"Among the collateral awards given at the Festival, The FIPRESCI Prize from the International Federation of Film Critics went to Bousbia’s El Gusto - her second prize on the night. The NETPAC Award for outstanding Asian film went to Atwal’s Marathon Boy. It her second prize as well, as she won Best New Director in the Documentary Category." photo by Vanessa McMahon
