The Red Sea Film Festival closed its fifth edition on Thursday night with a star-studded awards ceremony in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia that saw Akio Fujimoto’s “ Lost Land ” take home the festival’s top honor, the Golden Yusr for Best Feature Film. The ceremony opened with honorary awards given to Anthony Hopkins , Idris Elba , Darren Aronofsky and Saudi director Ahd Kamel (“My Driver and I”), with Johnny Depp and Shailene Woodley among the star guests in attendance.

“Lost Land,” the first Rohingya-language feature, follows two young siblings fleeing persecution in Myanmar on a perilous journey to join an uncle in Malaysia. Presenting the Golden Yusr to Fujimoto, Sean Baker, head of the feature jury, said the film “confronts the plight of displaced children with unflinching empathy and

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