MOROCCO / FIDADOC 2016 unveils its awards

Running from May 2^nd to 7^th and organised by the Association de Culture par l’Education et l’Audiovisuel (ACEA), the 8th Agadir International Documentary Festival (FIDADOC) presented its awards at a ceremony at the Town Hall.

The “Nouzha Drissi” Grand Prix went to Liubov Durakova and Alisa Kovalenko’s Polish-Ukrainian “Alisa in Warland”: the self-portrait of a young Ukrainian woman crossing her country racked by war.

The jury gave its Special Award to “Dans ma tête un rond-point” (In my head a roundabout) by the Algerian Hassan Ferhani, while the Human Rights Prize and the Grand Prix TV2M (sponsored by the public channel 2M) went to Hind Benchekroun and Sami Mermer’s “Callshop Istanbul”, a Canadian-Moroccan-Turkish co-production about a phone shop in Istanbul used by migrants to call relatives.

Finally, the Audience Award went to an Egyptian film, Kawthar Younis’ “A Present From the Past”, in which the director accompanies her father to Rome in the footsteps of his childhood sweetheart.

This eighth FIDADOC was animated by French film-maker Jean-Pierre Thorn, with a retrospective of his work during the festival.