Venice: “Dirty Hard Dangerous” Wins European Film Labels Award

dirty difficult dangerous Franco-Lebanese director Wissam Charafi won the 2022 Europa Cinemas Label Award for Best European Film Screening at this year’s Venice Days, a sidebar of the 79th Venice International Film Festival.

The film is a love story between two immigrants in Beirut: Mehdia, an Ethiopian migrant domestic worker, and Ahmed, a Syrian refugee struggling to make a living selling scrap metal. With nothing left to lose, the duo takes the opportunity to flee the city in a desperate attempt to start over somewhere else.

along with the prize dirty difficult dangerous It will receive promotional support from Europa Cinemas Label, an association of auteur cinema exhibitors from all over Europe, in its distribution in cinemas.

“Charafi visa dirty difficult dangerous is a delight: a highly original and wonderfully moving film and our unanimous choice as the winner of the Europa Cinemas seal here in Venice,” the Europa Cinemas jury said in a statement. “It deals with many tragic issues facing the whole world (war, refugees, trafficking), but Charaf follows a love story that even has elements of a strong fairy tale… There is a lightness to the touch here: a pleasant lack of sermons and some darkly funny moments. The film will give viewers a true sense of hope born of bravery, and we strongly believe it will appeal to European auteur audiences.”

dirty difficult dangerous Produced by Charlotte Vincent and Katja Khazak, with Marco Valerio Fusco, Micaela Fusco and Pierre Sarafi as co-producers. The film is a production of Aurora Films, co-produced by Intramovies and Né à Beyrouth Films. Intramovies sells the film all over the world.