Trio of pics top Doha Tribeca

London-- Merzak Allouache's "Normal," Nadine Labaki's "Where Do We Go Now?" and Namir's Abdel Messeeh's "The Virgin the Copts and Me" were among the prize winners at this year's third edition of the Doha Tribeca Film Festival, which wrapped on Saturday night. The five-day fest, which closed with an open air screening of Luc Besson's "The Lady," saw "Normal," a pic about a disillusioned Algerian youth in the wake of the Arab Spring, nab the Arab film competition's best narrative award while Messeeh's docu nabbed best documentary film in the Arab competish. "The Virgin, The Copts and Me" follows a French-Egyptian filmmaker travelling to Egypt to search for apparitions of the Virgin Mary. Both awards came with a $100,000 cash prize. Labaki, whose second feature pic "Where Do We Go Now?" has been selected as Lebanon's foreign language Oscar entry, walked away with the audience award at the fest.Story follows a group of Lebanese women who try to diffuse the tensions between Christians and Muslims in their village. Rania Stephan, helmer of "The Three Disappearances of Soad Honsi" and Roschdy Zem, helmer of "Omar Killed Me," took prizes for best documentary director and best narrative director respectively with both getting a $50,000 cash prize. "Omar Killed Me" thesp Sami Bouajila also won a prize for best performance in a pic and took a $15,000 cash prize. The best Arab short film prize went to "Where Are You?" by Abdulaziz Al-Nujaym while an honorable mention in the same category went to "My Father is Still a Communist - Intimate Secrets to Be Published" directed by Ahmad Ghossein. Ghossen will receive $10,000 in development services from the Doha Film Institute. Amanda Palmer, exec director of DFI said: "There are so many prestigious filmmakers here and the reason we have the festival is to discover new talent. We hope these talented people meet each other here and are able to make films together as a result."Mohammed Malas, jury prexy of the Arab narrative film competish, said that DTFF was "one of the best festivals to raise the profile of youth cinema, which will create our future."Following the screening of the closing night pic "The Lady," Brit popstar Leona Lewis performed to the crowd. Contact Diana Lodderhose at diana.lodderhose@variety.com