Posted by editor@vimooz.com on October 20, 2009 under Middle East International Film Festival (MEIFF) | 
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.
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Tags: 10 to 11, 11'e 10 Kala, A Torch for Peace, Al Zaman Al Baqi, Alicia Laguna, Bahman Ghobadi, Being Here, Double Take, Elia Suleiman, Franny Armstrong, Glendyn Ivin, Hamed Behdad, Hipsters, İki Dil Bir Bavul, Johan Grimonprez, Last Ride, Mohamed Zran, No One Knows About Persian Cats, Norteado, Northless, On the Way to School, Orhan Eskiköy, Özgür Doğan, Pelin Esmer, Rigoberto Pérezcano, Sonia Couoh, T. C. McLuhan, The Age of Stupid, The Frontier Gandhi: Badshah Khan, The Time That Remains, Valery Todorovsky
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Mississippi Damned
Tina Mabry’s drama Mississippi Damned was awarded the top prize at the Chicago International Film Festival winning the CIFF Gold Plaque for Best Picture, in addition to Best Screenplay for director Tina Mabry and Best Supporting Actress for Jossie Harris. Based on a true story, Mississippi Damned is the brutally honest tale of what happens when a family’s haven is also its prison - a vicious cycle of abuse, addiction, and lies.
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Tags: An Evening with Emery Long, Attached to You, Backyard, Cherry on the Cake, Cooking History, Daniele Ciprì, Filippo Timi, Fish Tank, Gigante, Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Girls on the Wall, Good Advice, Hipsters, Jossie Harris Thacker, Lee Daniels, Made in China, Marco Bellocchio, Martin Landau, Michael Fassbender, Mississippi Damned, Partners, Patrice Chéreau, Photograph of Jesus, Racing Dreams, Short Term 12, Skhizein, Soundtrack for a Revolution, The History of Aviation, The Illusion, Tina Mabry, Uma Thurman, Vincere, Wet, Willem Dafoe