Today, Saturday, the third day of the El Gouna Film Festival in its sixth session, witnessed artistic and cinematic events in the presence of a large number of art stars who were keen to be present in the courtyard of the Convention Center, where the events are held. The day began with the presence of Palestinian Farah Nabulsi, director of the film “The Professor”, and her compatriot Rachid Masharawi, where they spoke. For the media about cinema and the Palestinian issue.
Today’s activities also witnessed a session entitled “Gemini Africa”, in which 12 projects were reviewed to develop the film industry with technology, in the presence of the jury consisting of Bishri and director Markus Adel, Adly Touma, Hoda Al-Mufti, Ahmed Al-Morsi, in addition to engineer Hossam Saleh, CEO of Business at the United Company. For media services, producer Hisham Soliman, Amr Mansi, Hana Shiha, Mohamed Farrag, Basant Shawqi, Kamal Zadeh, Saba Mubarak, Basant Shawqi, Hoda Al-Mufti, director Sherif Mandour, artist Karima Mansour, and Dalia Shawqi, who presented the session.
The most prominent event this day was the master class of director Marwan Hamed, who was honored at the opening ceremony and given the Creative Achievement Award. The session was attended by: Engineer Hossam Saleh, Yousra, Ahmed Hatem, Ahmed Dash, director Yousry Nasrallah, Mohamed Farrag, Basant Shawqi, Dalia Shawqi. , Nour El Nabawy, Hana Shiha, director Hani Khalifa, director Tamer Mohsen, singer Abu, director Maryam Abu Auf.
Also present were Master Class Marawan Hamed Hoda Al-Mufti, Lebanese artist Cynthia Khalifa, Tunisian artist Fatima Nasser, Tunisian artist Samira Maqroun, director Tamer Ashry, director Sherif El-Bendary, Hisham Ashour, Ola Roushdy, writer Angie Alaa, Sarah Abdel Rahman, Mohamed Hatem, Angie. Kiwan, Salwa Muhammad Ali, writer Maryam Naoum,
Also included in today’s events is a symposium entitled “A Camera on the Crisis: An Eye on Media Coverage of Palestine” in the presence of a number of Palestinian film directors and makers, including Farah Nabulsi, Khalil Al-Mezian, Rashid Al-Mashharawi, Muhammad Al-Mughni, Ahmed Al-Manrawi, Najwa Al-Najjar, in addition to the intense presence of Artists and festival guests walked around the El Gouna Convention Center to participate in the various activities of the festival.
An exceptional session of the El Gouna Film Festival will be held after it was postponed from the scheduled date last October due to the events in Gaza, after the Mahdi program was added to Palestinian cinema, in addition to the festival program, to include the screening of a group of films about Palestine in cooperation with the Palestine Film Institute. The session includes 23 films in competition. Feature feature films, 15 films in the feature documentary competition, 14 films in the short film competition, in addition to a group of films shown outside the competition.
