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Soha Hesham spoke to Palestinian filmmaker and screenwriter Laila Abbas about her award-winning feature debut

The 7th edition of El Gouna Film Festival showcases two exhibitions celebrating Egyptian cinema and the legacy of photographer Mohamed Bakr.

Soha Hesham samples El Gouna Film Festival’s Arab fare

The 7th edition of the El Gouna Film Festival kicked off on 24 October with a special honour to the renowned Egyptian actor Mahmoud Hemida and a conversation with the actor.

At the open-air plaza theatre, El Gouna Film Festival (GFF) held its opening ceremony launching the activities of its 7th edition, which takes place from 24 October to 1 November.

Anha (About Her), the private screening of Islam El-Azzazi’s 2020 feature debut, to be released commercially this week

Last Sunday morning at one of Cairo’s hotels overlooking the Nile, the El Gouna Film Festival (GFF) administration announced the seventh round (24 October-1 November).

This month’s the Goethe Film Week in the Dokki and Downtown venues in Cairo (17-23 September) and the Jesuit Cultural Centre in Alexandria (19-24 September) features an impressive lineup of acclaimed and award-winning films from different countries, as well as short films, documentaries and animation.

A few days ago, during a conversation with friends about TV shows, the title of the series Bedoun Zikr Asmaa (Anonymously, 2013), directed by Tamer Mohsen and scripted by the late Wahid Hamed, came up.

Egyptian screenwriter Atef Beshay passed away last Friday, a few weeks after a critical brain surgery that had seemed successful until his health began to deteriorate. It was producer Mohamed Al-Adl who announced Beshay’s passing on Facebook.

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