[1] The Grand Prize is the main award of the Fribourg International Film Festival.
Convinced that film would be an excellent medium for expressing cultural richness, the Egyptian native thinks to open the floor to filmmakers from the South.
In autumn 1992, the Festival receives international recognition from UNESCO: the World Decade for Cultural Development seal.
The 29th edition breaks the record for any film festival ever held in western Switzerland with 40,000 tickets sold.
2016 And Woman created Cinema 2017 A cinematic cabinet of curiosities 2012 Patrick Chappatte and Lebanon 2013 Atom Egoyan and Armenia 2014 Slava Bykov and Russia 2015 Tony Gatlif and the Roma 2016 Mira Nair and India 2017 Myret Zaki and Egypt 2012 Pierre-Alain Meier, producer 2013 Martin Scorsese and the World Cinema Foundation 2014 History of Iranian Cinema by its Creators 2015 Syria, by Ossama Mohammed 2016 Ida Lupino, par Pierre Rissient 2017 Freddy Buache 2012 Bangladesh 2013 Uzbekistan 2014 Madagascar 2015 Indigenous North American cinema 2016 Being an African Female Filmmaker 2017 Nepal 2012 Georges Schwizgebel 2013 Bouli Lanners 2014 Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne 2015 Jean-François Stévenin 2016 Geraldine Chaplin 2017 Douglas Kennedy