"Angle mort" by Lotfi Achour and "La robe d'Aïcha" by Mohamed Said are in the competition which will take place from January 28 to February 5.
"Aisha's Dress" won the Grand Prize for Short Film at the Oujda Maghreb Film Festival (Morocco), the Jury Prize at the Cairo Shorts Film Festival (Egypt), the Best Short Film Award at the Blackboard International Film Festival (India) and at the Arab Short Film Festival (Lebanon). The film has just been awarded "Best drama" at the New York Movie Awards.