The date of the festival's silver jubilee has not been revealed yet.
The news comes shortly after the Cairo International Film Festival announced, last month, that Nasrallah will be honored with the Golden Pyramid for Lifetime Achievement at the festival's 45th edition in November 2023.
The same month, the MedFest Egypt - a festival that is scheduled for September 2023 and which merges filmmaking and health-related social issues - announced Nasrallah to head the jury of the short film competition last month.
Yousry Nasrallah, an internationally renowned director and screenwriter, began his career in the film industry as a film critic for Al-Safeer newspaper and an assistant director in Lebanon after studying at the Higher Institute for Cinema in Cairo.
After his initial work as an assistant director in Lebanon, Nasrallah collaborated with the late Youssef Chahine on several films, beginning with Wadaan Bonaparte (Adieu Bonaparte, 1985)
Nasrallah's debut feature film, Summer Thefts, premiered at the Cannes Film Festival's Directors' Fortnight in 1988. Mercedes (1993) was selected for the Locarno Film Festival, while Sobian W-Banat (On Boys, Girls and the Veil, 1995) and Al-Madina (The City, 1999) earned Nasrallah Locarno's Special Jury Prize.
Nasrallah's film adaptation of Elias Khoury's novel Gate of Sun, which shares the same title, was an Official Selection at the Festival de Cannes in 2004.
Nasrallah went on to direct Genenet Al-Asmak (The Aquarium, 2008) and Ehky Ya Sharhazad (Tell Me a Story, Scheherazade, 2009), which was showcased at the Venice Film Festival.
In 2016, Nasrallah's film Brooks, Meadows, and Lovely Faces was featured in the Official Competition at the Locarno Film Festival.
In 2023, the Locarno Film Festival announced that it has started restoring The Gate of Sun.
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