Congratulations, Arawinda Kirana Has Been Named The Best Artist At The Red Sea Film Festival 2021

Arawinda Kirana (Foto: Ig @ifa_ifansyah)

JAKARTA - Actress Arawinda Kirana received the Silver Yusr Award for the best actress category at the Red Sea International Film Festival (RSIFF) 2021 for her role in the film "Yuni". He received an invitation to attend the festival which was held in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, in person, on Tuesday, December 14.

“I am honored to receive this award because here the films are not only Asia, or any continent, but this includes global entry into the Red Sea Film Festival. Even though they're a new festival and it's their first year, it's very prestigious. So it's like the "Oscar" of Saudi Arabia," said the woman who is familiarly called Ara quoted from ANTARA, Wednesday, December 15.

The Red Sea International Film Festival is the inaugural edition of the film festival in Saudi Arabia which opened on Monday, December 6. The festival was first announced in 2019 and was originally scheduled to launch in March 2020 but was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic even though most of the RSIFF programs were already running.

Arawinda admitted that she was happy that the film "Yuni" could be shown in Saudi Arabia. The series of films that were shown at the festival, he continued, had faces that contained diversity.

He also admitted that he was surprised by the warm response from people who asked questions in the question and answer forum after the screening of the film "Yuni".

“It was a pleasure to meet them, it was like being genuinely interested in this film and asking them what the process was like, what the research was like. It's really fun," he said.

The audience of "Yuni" in Saudi Arabia, said Arawinda, showed great interest in the film he starred in. In fact, many of them have never watched Indonesian films.

“They said: 'After watching this film, I fell in love with Indonesian films and I want to find more'. Then I can only say: 'Yes, I hope Indonesian films can be more accessible to people all over the world'. Because so far it's not quite accessible, except for the ones on Netflix, and that's also limited,” said Arawinda.

Prior to receiving this award at the RSIFF, she had also won the Snow Leopard award in the best actress category at the 2021 Asian World Film Festival and the Citra Cup for the best female lead category. All of these awards he got thanks to his role as the main player in the film "Yuni".

“Yuni” has also won several other awards, such as the Platform Prize at the 2021 Toronto International Film Festival and the Silver Hanoman at the Jogja-NETPAC Asian Film Festival 2021.

Yuni's film raising the issue of women is also Indonesia's representative for the Best International Feature Film category at the Academy Awards next year.