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In 2018, the Prize for film circulation was awarded by a jury composed of NAAS members to the film The Day I Ate The Fish by Aida El Kashef (Ganoub Films Production Company), presented as a project in post-production during the “Ateliers de l’Atlas” in Marrakech.
A fictional research team, presented as narrators, reopens four cases of women convicted of murdering their husbands. The argument expands to question the discourse of violence and counter-violence in our contemporary society, basic crime punishment notions and the development of state disciplinary strategies. This essay film moves freely in place and time shifting between prison interviews, archival, and original footage.
Trailer: https://vimeo.com/141260510?fl=pl&fe=vl
The prize is issued to the NAAS member spaces to invite the filmmaker or a crew member to present their film after completion, and to facilitate its circulation among Arabic-speaking countries.
In 2017 and through 2018, NAAS supported the subtitling and circulation of twelve new Arab and international films in the Arab region, within the framework of the NAAS prize for film circulation.
This project was supported by the Arsenal – Institut for Film and Video Art (Germany), the Berlinale Forum | Forum Expanded, and the Ford Foundation (USA).
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