THE NINTH Cairo International Festival for Children's Films closed last Sunday. The award-winning films were announced and awards were distributed by Fawzi Fahmi, head of the Egyptian Academy of Arts, and Kamal El-Sheikh, head of the festival. Winners of the Golden, Silver and Bronze Awards for Long Feature Films were, respectively, the Iranian film Mother's Love, the French film Criko and the Witch, and the Egyptian film The Bridge. The Golden Award for Short Feature Films went to the English film The Bear, while the Danish film Eagle's Eye received the Special Jury Award. Egypt received the Golden Award for Animated Films for its Shillat Asshab (A Group of Friends), directed by Zeinab Zamzam, while the Silver Award went to the English Brimely Hedge, and the Bronze to the Syrian film A Tale From the East. The American film The Parent Trap, which was the opening film of the festival, and is now showing at three cinema halls in Cairo (see Listings), also received a Special Jury Award. photos: Abdel-Hamid Eid
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