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Young jury gives Mine Xplore Award to Ajami
15 Oct 2009
The jury of the youngsters of the Ghent Film Festival gives the Mine Xplore Award to the Israelian film Ajami of the directors Scandar Copti & Yaron Shani. The distributor will get a free media campaign in the daily De Morgen and on the radio Studio Brussel with a value of 20.000 euro and an amount of 6.000 cash money given by Mine/BNP Paribas Fortis. A L'ouest de Pluton received a Special Mention.
Ajami is one of the films in the XploreZone section, a selection of 18 films from Competition, World Cinema and Festival Previews. The jury of five members has decided that Ajami deserves the Mine Xplore Award for the following reason : "The film is an immersion into life in the Israeli Ajami neighbourhood where Christians, Muslims and Jews are fighting for their survival. A moving mosaic film with realistic characters and a well developed plot. The directors Scandar Copti and Yaron Shani put our nose on the socio political situation in Israel in a convincing and non-teaching way.