Overview
- Akio Fujimoto’s film was awarded the festival’s top honor for Best Feature Film during the closing ceremony in Jeddah.
- The Golden Yusr comes with a $100,000 cash prize, presented onstage by jury president Sean Baker.
- The feature is the first shot entirely in the Rohingya language and centers on two siblings fleeing persecution in Myanmar.
- The film premiered in Venice’s Horizons section earlier this year, where it won the Special Jury Prize.
- Other Red Sea winners included Cherien Dabis’ All That’s Left of You for the Silver Yusr, Shahad Ameen’s Hijra for the Jury Prize and Best Saudi Film, and Juliette Binoche’s In-I: In Motion for Best Documentary.