Mai Masri’s film won the “Bronz Tanit” within the Feature Film competition  and the “Screenplay Prize” for a feature film within the Official Competition. “3000 Nights” was the third among 17 films reviewed by the jury in its 27th edition.

The festival’s closing ceremony was held on Saturday night, November 5, 2016. First established in 1966, the JCC is the longest-standing film festival in the Arab world and Africa.  The festival was hosted every two years until it became an annual event since 2014. This year’s edition marked the festival’s 50th anniversary.

Masri’s film, inspired by a true story and shot in a real prison in Jordan, follows a newly-wed Palestinian schoolteacher who is wrongfully imprisoned in an Israeli jail, where she gives birth to a son.