The Red Sea Film Festival and Variety will be partners on two new awards: the Intl. Vanguard Filmmaker Award, which will go to Nadine Labaki, and the Intl. Vanguard Actor Award, which goes to Ranbi…
An actor, director, musician and activist, Labaki has carved a distinctive path on the international film circuit. As a child, she would spend hours at a small theater run by her grandfather, in the dark but never alone, lit by the images flickering on screen. From that young age, Labaki knew that she wanted to pursue filmmaking, though the circumstances of Lebanon’s wartorn 1980s didn’t always make such opportunities apparent.in 2019.
Labaki’s inaugural feature would focus on five Beirut women, exploring their lives with the warm hues and bittersweet tones as promised by the title. After premiering in Cannes in 2007, the project would become Lebanon’s international Oscar submission — as would the director’s two subsequent works. Winner of the Jury Prize at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival, and box office heavyweight in terms of global admissions, “Capernaum” was a milestone for the filmmaker and for Arab-language cinema writ large. As it followed a wideeyed refugee across the slums of Beirut, “Capernaum” married realism with childlike wonder, never obfuscating the young lead’s harsh conditions or denying him his own right to innocence.
The scion to Bollywood royalty, Kapoor meanwhile has emerged as a galvanizing force all on his own, winning critical acclaim for his roles in Imtiaz Ali’s “Rockstar” and Anurag Basu’s “Barfi!” As a marquee draw, few in the Hindi industry can surpass the matinée idol who pushed the 2018 Bollywood biopic “Sanju” into the highest reaches of Indian box office history.
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