Eritrea Filmmaker Nahom Abraham Wins Berlinale NEFTI Award for ‘Dwelling’ – The Hollywood Reporter

Nahom Abraham from Eritrea has gained the highest prize for greatest movie, and $5,000, within the Berlinale’s 2023 NEFTI award for his movie Dwelling, a drama a few couple longing to be reunited.

Mihk Vergara and Miko Livelo from the Philippines took the NEFTI Viewers Viewers Selection award, together with the $2,000 prize for You Are Gathered Right here In the present day, a narrative a few man who returns house to the Philippines to bury his father and reunite along with his greatest mates.

The third finalist was Zoulikha Tahar from Algeria for her movie Leila’s Evening Of Pleasure, a few woman who, on her twenty fifth birthday, lastly stands up for herself and takes her life into her personal fingers.

A panel of judges, together with actress Vivica A. Fox, Oscar-winning producer Bruce Cohen (American Magnificence) and Fox/Disney President, of function post-production Ted Gagliano, picked the NEFTI winners along with final 12 months’s competitors winner Minenhle Luthuli, chosen the three finalists.

The NEFTI awards, sponsored by Austria’s NEFT Vodka and backed by the Berlinale’s European Movie Market, the Durban Movie Mart, and the Worldwide Rising Movie Expertise Affiliation (IEFTA), are designed to have a good time, and problem, filmmakers from rising financial areas to showcase their artistic expertise and to broaden their attain into areas that will in any other case not have been obtainable to them. Whereas the quick movies didn’t must be about NEFT, all of them needed to embody the vodka model in a means apart from product placement. The one different standards for have been that every one movies have to be non-violent and non-political.

The following NEFTI competitors, NEFTI Africa, isopen solely to candidates residing on the continent or African territories. Functions open on Could 1. There are additionally plans for aNEFTI All-Stars competitors, the place the winners from all NEFTI occasions create new movies to compete for a NEFTI All-Stars prize.