Egypt’s ‘Dry Hot Summers’ scoops best short award at Malmo Arab Film Festival

Ahram online ○ 04 October 2016

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Egyptian short film Dry Hot Summers won the Best Short Film Award at the 6th Malmo Arab Film Festival in Sweden (30 September – 5 October), sharing the award with Kongdom Garbage by Iraqi filmmaker Yasir Karim.

Dry Hot Summers won the Robert Bosch Stiftung Film Prize for International Cooperation at a gala held during Berlinale Talents, a six-day creative summit for up-and-coming filmmakers at the Berlin Film Festival. It also scooped up the main award in the Short Films category at Algeria’s ninth Oran Arab Film Festival.