(Photo: Still from A Stroll Down Sunflower Lane)
The third edition of Jesuit Film festival toured four cities in Upper Egypt: Minya, Assiut, Sohag, Aswan, under the title Fabrica, El-Cinema Mostamera (Fabrica, Cinema Goes on).
The festival now reaches Alexandria where it will take place between 17 and 22 September, featuring films that are screened within the official competition.
The annual festival aims at encouraging the local cinema and celebrating the creativity. Though the festival screens films by many Egyptian filmmakers, it puts spotlight on those from Upper Egypt and helps expand their outreach.
According to the event description, this year the festival comes with a vision to delve deeper into a visual language that parallels the big shifts occuring in Egypt and the world, not only by documenting them but by questioning and probing the human aspects within them.
Programme:
Saturday 17 September
5pm:
17 Fouad Street, by Ahmed Nabil
Aida, by Maysoon El-Massry
A Stroll Down Sunflower Lane) by Mayye Zayed
at Wekalet Behna
7pm:
Jews of Egypt part II, by Amir Ramsis, followed by a discussion with the director
at the Jesuits Cultural Center
Sunday 18 September
5pm:
Aunt Margo's Steak by Sameh Alaa
El-Shayeb by Haytham El-Maghraby
Monday 19 September
5pm:
Gamila by Youssef Noaman
Laila by Hozan Abdo
7pm:
Decor, by Ahmed Abdallah
at the Jesuits Cultural Center
Tuesday 20 September
5pm:
This is Loneliness by Mariane Abdelmalek
On The Back of the Photograph by Reda Ali
The Eye of Life by Wafaa Hussein
7pm:
In a Day (Fi Yom), by Karim Shaaban, followed by a discussion with the director
at the Jesuits Cultural Center
Wednesday 21 September
5pm:
Living Sleeping Dying Standing by Ahmed Essam
Night of Love by Helmy Nouh
An Institution's Listing by Noha Beraneya
7pm:
We're Going Down to Tahrir (Nazlin El Tahrir)
at the Jesuits Cultural Center
Thursday 22 September
5pm:
Screening of films from Hekayet El-Ganoub workshop
7pm:
Sanaa's Story (Hekayet Sanaa)
at the Jesuits Cultural Center
Addresses:
Jesuits Cultural Center in Alexandria, 298 Port Said Street, Cleopatra, Alexandria
Wekalet Behna, 1 El Kenisa El Marounia St., Orabi Square, El Mansheya, Alexandria
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