‘Slave’ & ‘Raven Song’ Take Top Prizes At Saudi Film Festival
deadline.comSci-fi thriller Slave (Abed) by Mansour Assad and Raven Song by Mohamed Al Salman took the top prizes at theninth edition of the Saudi Film Festival, running from May 4 to 12 in the city of Dammam in eastern Saudi Arabia.
Slave (Abed) won the festival’s Golden Palm for best film, while Raven Song clinched the jury prize. Mansour Assad’s Slave revolves around a couple who make a movie that results in anger and backlash from society.
They are given the option of staying in the present or going back in time to rectify the action that enraged their community.
Raven Song follows a man who is wrongly diagnosed with a brain tumor after he starts having hallucinations. The film also walked away with Golden Palms for best screenplay, best cinematography and best actor for Asim Al-Auad.
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