Spanish director Guillermo Galoe’s Sleepless City won the top $75,000 Best Narrative prize at the Doha Film Festival which brought its inaugural edition to a close on Friday.

Galoe’s first feature, Sleepless City is a hybrid work shot in the Spanish shanty town of La Cañada Real on the outskirts of Madrid, which is regarded as Europe’s largest illegal settlement, with the support of its residents.

It revolves around a teenage Roma boy whose way of life is threatened by moves to demolish the family scrapyard.

Oscar-nominated documentarian Rithy Panh led the jury, which also featured director and screenwriter Raja Amari, actor and filmmaker Dhafer L’Abidine, photographer Brigitte Lacombe and Founder and Curator of Final Cut Venice Alessandra Speciale

In further prizes, Jihan’s

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