Hassan II Cinema Grand Prix: Daoud Oulad Syad's Aoud Rih Wins

Daoud Oulad Syad's movie "Aoud Rih" won on Saturday the Hassan II Cinema prize, held in Rabat July 6-13 as part of the Rabat international festival.

The Jury's special prize went to Abdellatif Abdelhamid's "Deux lunes et une olive (two moons and an olive)."

The best actress prize to Baya Bilal for her role in Mehdi Charref's "Bent Keltoum (Keltoum's daughter)."

Morocco's France-settled Mourad Maimouni won the festival's young movie maker prize for his "Au-dela de Gibraltar (Beyond Gibraltar)."

Egyptian actress, Leila Elwi, who chaired the jury said awarding prizes was not easy. All the movies taking part in the festival were of great quality.

During the closing ceremony, "Little Senegal" of the French-Algerian Rachid Bouchareb was screened. The story takes place in the Afro-American New York district of Harlem.