2009 Middle East International Film Festival Winners
Posted by editor@vimooz.com on October 20, 2009 under Middle East International Film Festival (MEIFF) | 
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Black Pearl Award for Best Narrative Film – Hipsters (Stilyagi), directed by Valery Todorovsky (Russia)
The Closing Ceremony for the third annual Middle East International Film Festival (MEIFF) was held at the Emirates Palace Hotel on Saturday evening. During the ceremony, celebrity guests including Naomi Watts, Eva Mendes, Orlando Bloom, Mahmoud Hemeda, Biyouna, Khaled Abol Naga, Golshifteh Farahani and Sawsan Badr presented the 2009 Black Pearl Awards to the winners of MEIFF’s competitions. The awards were the culmination of 10 days of cinema, with 128 films screened. Seventeen Narrative Features, fourteen Documentary Features, twenty-five Short Films, and ten Student Shorts competed for Black Pearl Awards.