Tonight, the Film Society Festival will screen the "Abu Sadam" film at Cairo Opera House, media agencies reported on Saturday.
Last week, the Cairo Film Society Festival announces the members of the jury for its exceptional session.
The management of the Annual Film Association, headed by Director of Cinematography Mahmoud Abdel Samie, has formed a jury for the 47th and 48th sessions of the festival, which will take place from January 29 to February 5 at the Creativity Center at the Egyptian Opera House.
The jury include Film critic, Amal Othman, artist Bushra, director Tamer Mohsen, critic Rami Al-Metwally, director Adel Al-Aasar, producer Farouk Abdel-Khaleq, film critic Magdy El-Tayeb, director of cinematography Dr. Mohsen Ahmed, film director Mohamed Abu Seif, and finally Dr. Walid Seif, writer and film critic, along with the head of the cinema department at the Higher Institute of Art Criticism, the secretariat of the press jury, Neven Elzohairy and the artist, George Fawzy.
The Cairo Film Society Festival was established in 1974; it seeks to select a jury that presents its results with great credibility and impartiality, which is what always distinguishes the results of the Film Association.
The festival management had announced that the general referendum in which members of the association, critics, journalists and a number of filmmakers participated, to choose the best of the works that were shown during the year 2020, resulted in the selection of 5 films: “Yum W Leila” by director Ayman Makram, “Sondok El Donia” by Imad Al-Bahat, “Saheb El Makam” by Muhammad Jamal Al-Adl, “Tawaam Rohy” by Othman Abu Laban, and finally the movie “Hazr Tagawol” by Amir Ramses.
Those movies, to be the films of the 47th session of the festival. As for the films of 2021, they come as the following: “Waefet Regala” by Ahmed Al-Jundi, “Al-Arif” by Ahmed Alaa El-Deeb, “El Ens Wel Nems” by Sherif Arafa, “Moussa” by Peter Mimi, “200 Geneh” by Muhammad Amin, and “Bra Al-Manhaj” by Amr Salama, Nadine Khan's "Abu Saddam", and finally, "Kabel Lel Kasr".
Due to the conditions of the corona and the closure that happened, a new media must be dealt with, which digital platforms. The festival management decided to add an item to the festival list that serves this. It stipulates the participation of films that got screened on these platforms of Egyptian production to compete for the festival awards. Since the closure period, platforms became an alternative to cinemas, where 3 films compete during 2020, along with two other projects during 2021.
As for the developments that got added to the festival, Abdel Samie continued, "We added a new item to the list of Arab feature films that were shown in Egyptian theaters, as a kind of referendum was conducted on by the members of the association, critics, journalists, and other filmmakers, those who are about to be awarded a certificate from the festival authority as the best Arab narrative film.
The 6 films competing in the vote are: “Been El Ganna Wel Ard” by the Palestinian director Najwa Najjar, “Satamot Fel Eshreen” by Sudanese director Amjad Abu Al-Ala, “200 meter” by the Palestinian director Amin Nayfeh, and If you wish, as in heaven” by Palestinian director Elia Suleiman, “El Ragol Alazy Baa Dahro” by the Tunisian director Kawthar Ben Haniyeh, and the last movie titled by “Gaza Monamour” by the Palestinian director Arab Nasser.
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