IDFA Forum Awards: Top Prizes Go Documentary Pitch About Palestinian Child, And Comedic Take On Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
deadline.comFilmmaker Mohammed Almughanni’s project Son of the Streets, about a Palestinian child living in a refugee camp in Beirut, has been awarded Best Pitch at the IDFA Forum Awards.
The world’s largest documentary film festival presented two additional prizes on Wednesday, including the IDFA Forum Award for Best Rough Cut to Coexistence, My Ass!, and the DocLab Forum Award to Turbulence.
Each of the winners receives a cash prize of €1,500. The logline for Almughanni’s film reads, “Against all odds, a stateless Palestinian child in a Beirut refugee camp embarks on a courageous journey for recognition, education, and a brighter future in Son of the Streets.” The project is listed as a co-production of Poland and Palestine.
Almughanni was born in Gaza and studied cinema at the renowned Łódź Film School in Poland. In a statement about the awards, Best Pitch jurors Zdeněk Blaha and Nada Riyadh explained why they chose Almughanni’s proposal for their top prize. “To be a jury at the Forum means seeing lots of great, important, but very different projects.
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