Director Mohamed Diab's Clash Contends for the Cinema for Peace Most Valuable Movie of the Year Award in Berlin

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Director Mohamed Diab's Clash Contends for the Cinema for Peace Most Valuable Movie of the Year Award in Berlin


Director Mohamed Diab's film Clash will compete for the Most Valuable Movie of the Year
Award (2016) within the annual competition organized by the Cinema for Peace Foundation held in the German capital city of Berlin on February 13th. The award ceremony will be held at the former
German House of Parliament; the Reichstag building.

During its success in film festivals around the world, Clash has won 12 awards, including the Suwarna Chakoram Prize for Best Film and the Audience Prize Rajata Chakoram at the 21st International Film Festival of Kerala (IFFK) in India, the Critics Prize at the 16th Mediterranean Film Festival of Brussels, the Golden Pram award at the Zagreb International Film Festival, in addition to four awards at
the 27thCarthage Film Festival, three awards at the 61stValladolid Film Festival (Seminci) in Spain,
and the Grand Prix at the Festival du Film Arabe de Fameck/Val de Fensch in France. Clash also took part in the 60th BFI London Film Festival to compete within its Official Competition and was
screened at the 38th round of the Cairo InternationalFilm Festival (CIFF) as part of a special section dedicated to showcasing the best Egyptian productions of 2015-2016.

The Dubai International Film Festival (DIFF) had chosen to present Mohamed Diab's Clash - Egypt's official submission to the Best Foreign-Language Film category at the Academy Awards 2017- to
the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HEPA) for Golden Globe Award consideration.

In May 2016, the film landed its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival as it opened the prestigious Un Certain Regard section. Clash marked Egypt's comeback as an official selection after years of absence to the world's most prestigious film event. The Hollywood Reporter also selected Clash as one of the 10 best films on its Critics' Faves at the 69th Cannes Film Festival.

Tackling the political unrest that prevailed in Egypt in 2013, Clash's events take place in an 8-meter police truck, crammed with detainees representing different sects of society, their interaction with
each other full of madness, violence, romance, and comedy.

Co-written by Khaled Diab and Mohamed Diab, who is also the director, Clash is a co-production between France, Egypt, Germany, and the UAE. The cast includes Nelly Karim, Tarek Abd El Aziz,
Hany Adel, Ahmed Malek, Ashraf Hamdi, Mohamed Abdel Azim, Gamil Barsoum and others.

Clash is a joint production effort between Arab and European companies: Film Clinic (Egypt), Sampek Productions (France), and Acamedia Global (UAE), in association with ARTE France Cinema (France), Niko Film (Germany), Fortress Film Clinic (UAE), and Pyramide International (France). Taking part in
the project are producers Moez Masoud, Mohamed Hefzy, Eric Lagesse, and it is co-produced by
Nicole Gerhards, alongside executive producers Jamal Al Dabbous and Daniel Ziskind. Mohamed
Diab's wife, Sarah Goher, also acted as a creative collaborator on the film, earning the title "Creative Producer".

The film is distributed in Egyptian theatres by MAD Solutions, while Pyramide International will distribute it in France and the rest of the world.

The Cinema for Peace Foundation endeavors to promote worldwide peace and understanding through the support of cinematographic works, and to further develop the goals and activities established by the Cinema for Peace initiative and annual Gala.