Official Competition Awards
The Golden Pyramid Award for Best Film
presented to the producer
- Limbo (UK) by Ben Sharrock
The Silver Pyramid, Special Jury Award for Best Director
- Conference (Russia, Estonia, UK, Italy) by Ivan I. Tverdovskiy
The Bronze Pyramid Award for Best First or Second Work
presented to the director:
- Lift Like a Girl (Egypt) by Mayye Zayed
Naguib Mahfouz Award for Best Screenplay
- 50 or Two Whales Meet on the Beach (Mexico)
Written and directed by Jorge Cuchi
Best Actor Award
Julian Vergov for his role in German Lessons (Bulgaria) by Pavel G. Vesnakov
Best Actress Award
awarded to two actresses
- Ilham Shahine in Curfew (Egypt) by Amir Ramses
and
- Natalya Pavlenkova for her role in Conference (Russia, Estonia, UK, Italy) by Ivan I. Tverdovskiy
Henry Barakat Award for Best Artistic Contribution
- Limbo (UK) by Ben Sharrock
Special mention
Gaza Mon Amour (Palestine, Germany, France, Portugal) by Tarzan and Arab Nasser
The Horizons of New Arab Cinema Competition Awards
Saad Eldin Wahba Award for Best Arabic Film
awarded to the director:
- Roy Arida for his film Under The Concrete (France, Lebanon)
Salah Abu Seif Award for Best Artistic Contribution.
- The Tambour of Retribution (KSA) by Abdulaziz Al Shelahi
Best Non-Fiction Film Award
- We Are from There (Lebanon, France) by Wissam Tanios
Best Acting Performance Award
- Faisal Al-Dokhi for his role in The Tambour of Retribution (KSA) by Abdulaziz Al Shelahi
Special Mention
- The Fall of Apple Trees (Morocco) by Mohamed Moftakar
International Critics’ Week Competition Awards
Shadi Abdel Salam Award for Best Film
awarded to the director
- The Best Is Yet to Come (China) by Jing Wang
Fathy Farag Award for Best Artistic Contribution
- Gold (Netherlands) by Roger Hesp
The Cinema of Tomorrow International Competition Awards
Youssef Chahine Award for Best Short Film.
- Isabel (Cuba) by Egyptian director Sara Shazly
The Special Jury Award
- The Game (Switzerland) by Roman Hodel
Special mention
- The Girls Who Burned The Night (KSA) by Sara Mesfer
CIFF Cash Awards
Youssef Cherif Rizkallah Award (Audience Award)
USD 15,000 (shared between the producer of the film and the Egyptian company distributing the film in Egypt)
- Lift Like a Girl (Egypt) by Mayye Zayed
Best Arab Film Award
USD 10,000 presented to the producer of the film.
- Gaza Mon Amour (Palestine, Germany, France, Portugal) by Tarzan and Arab Nasser
- We Are From There (Lebanon, France) by Wissam Tanios
ISIS Award for best Egyptian film to show the economic and social emancipation of women (USD 10,000)
- Lift Like a Girl (Egypt) by Mayye Zayed
Award for best film dealing with human trafficking issues
EGP 50,000 is presented by the National Committee for Combating Illegal Immigration and Human Trafficking
- Along The Sea (Japan, Vietnam) by Fujimoto Akio
The International Federation of Film Critics (The FIPRESCI) Award
- Limbo (UK) by Ben Sharrock
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