The Arab Cinema Centre (ACC) has enlarged its jury for the 4th Critics’ Awards for Arab Films. Originally there were just 75 jurors, then 67 new members were added, making a committee of 142 critics from 57 countries in five continents, the largest jury in any competition of Arab world films.
Last September the ACC announced that 42 critics had joined the jury for their Critics’ Awards for European Films. The ACC founders said their strategy was annually to increase the number of participating critics from around the world: “every year we want to add more names from the world of film criticism to the jury of the Critics’ Awards for Arab Films.”Maher Diab and Alaa Karkouti went on to say that “by involving 142 film critics from 57 countries we can give the world a better idea of the content of Arab cinema.”
The Critics Awards for Arab Film highlights a wide selection of Arab films produced in 2019. Awards are given to the best films in six categories:
Best Feature Film
Best documentary
Best Actress
Best Actor
Best Director
Best Screenwriter
This year the director of the Awards is Egyptian film critic Ahmed Shawky. This year’s winners will be announced at the Cannes Film Festival in May 2020.
