‘Robbing Beirut’, ‘Guria’ & ‘Saria Othman Needs No Man’ Scoop Top Prizes At Red Sea Project Market
deadline.comLebanese Canadian director Katia Jarjoura’s drama Robbing Beirut has won the top $75,000 in-development prize in the Red Sea Souk project market, presenting 31 feature films and seven series projects within Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea International Film Festival.
Set against the backdrop of Lebanon’s economic crisis, the movie revolves around a woman who decides to rob a bank after it refuses to hand over her $30,00 savings deposit, which she needs to pay for medical treatment for her sister.
The film marks Jarjoura’s first fiction feature after a number of documentaries including Goodbye Murbarak, The Road to Kerbala and most recently, Escape, about Syrian artists living in exile.
Runners-up for the in-development prizes were Indonesian director Makbul Mubarak’s Watch It Burn, which clinched a $20,000 award, and Afghan director Aboozar Amini’s Tahmina, which won the $20,000 third prize.
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