Best Feature film: A boyfriend for Yasmina Best Documentary: ex-aequo The one man's village and Checkpoint Rock. Songs from Palestine. Best Fiction Short Film: The north route Best Documentary Short Film: Stranger in my home Best Director: Rashid Masharawi for Laila´s birthday Best Actress Award: Suheir Hammad for Salt of this sea Best Actor Award: José Luis García Pérez for A boyfriend for Yasmina Television de Galicia Prize: Pommegranates and myrrh ...

The 7th edition of Amal ended last Saturday 31st October in the Teatro Principal with a closing ceremony in which the winners were awarded. The event was the highlight of nine days of cinema, dialogue and tolerance in the heart of Santiago de Compostela. The winners, many institutional representatives, authorities, members of the jury, directors and the media came together to celebrate Amal and to enjoy the concert of the French-Algerian musician Fayçal Salhi.     In the seven ...

AMAL is an Arab word that means hope. It is also the name of the International Euro-Arab Film Festival, organised for the first time in 2003, by Fundación Araguaney-Puente de Culturas (Bridging Cultures) and held in Santiago de Compostela. It is the only festival in Europe aiming to present the social and cultural reality in Arab countries to a more and more increasing audience . Over the last six years, thanks to the exhibition of Arab and Euro-Arab productions and co-productions reflectin...

Larry Levene, the director of the film, will be among the guests of the opening acto of AMAL’06 Festival Santiago de Compostela, 13 de october 2006.- A history of mutual discovery and intercultural dialogue, the documentary “César y Zaín” will be in charge of opening the International Euro-Arab Film Festival AMAL’06. The british director Larry Levene will be present on the opening act. He is known for films such as Una nube sobre Bhopal (2001) and El hambre del mundo explicada a mi hi...

The Araguaney Foundation is honoured to present the 3rd edition of AMAL‘06 , the International Euro-Arab Film Festival, that will take place from the 20th to the 26th of October in Santiago de Compostela, Spain. This year’s official selection comprises 35 films: 27 films on the official selection: 12 short films, 11 documentaries and 4 long feature films plus other 8 invited films that will be screened. The exhibited films come from a wide range of countries such as Egypt, Turkey, Iran, S...