Actors Nour El-Sherif and Sherif Ramzy (Photo: Courtesy of DIFF's website)
With nine films in the competition, the 42nd Film Association Festival opened on 30 January and will run until 6 February at the Creativy Center located at the Cairo Opera House grounds.
This year’s edition opened with the absence of big name actors and media, who were mostly covering the Luxor Egyptian European Film Festival.
The festival honoured director of photography Mahmoud Abd El-Sameea and producer Samy Agamy. Agamy produced the film Cairo Time, (starring late actor Nour El-Sherif in his last role) that was screened as the opening film followed by an open discussion with the film’s director Amir Ramsis.
The nine Egyptian films running in the festival’s competition are Ramsis’ Tawqeet Al-Qahera (Cairo Time), Aswar Al-Qamar (Walls of the Moon) directed by Tarek El-Arian, Ott we Far (Cat and Mouse) directed by Tamer Mohsen, Khareg El-Khedma (Out of Service) directed by Mahmoud Kamel, Welad Rizk (Rizk’s Sons) directed by Tarek El-Arian, Sokkar Morr (Bitter Sugar) directed by Hany Khalifa, El-Geel El-Rabea (Generation 4) directed by Ahmed Nader Galal, Bab El-Wadaa (Door of Farewell) directed by Karim Hanafy and Qudrat Ghayr Adiya (Out of the Ordinary) directed by Dawod Abdel Sayed.
The films were selected from the 36 titles that were screened in Egyptian commercial cinemas in 2015.
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