Pictures .. El Gouna Film Festival full number of stars
Yasmine Sabry.
Lebleh, Ahmed El-Sakka and his wife.
Mays Hamdan.
Kinda Alloush and Amr Youssef.
Jamal Suleiman.
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Today, Saturday, the screenings of the first day of the El Gouna Film Festival, in its fourth edition, began with the presentation of 12 films between fiction and long documentary.
The festival activities began on Friday with the opening ceremony, which was attended by a large number of Egyptian, Arab and foreign stars and stars.
The opening ceremony was held in the open theater of the El Gouna Center for Conferences and Culture, which was recently built in the tourist resort overlooking the Red Sea, in the presence of a large number of movie stars, including the Lebanese Stephanie Saliba, the Syrian Kinda Alloush, the Syrian Jamal Suleiman, the Moroccan Maysa Maghribi, the Tunisian Aisha bin Ahmed, the Jordanian Munther Rayahneh, and Leila Alawi, Yousra, Ilham Shaheen, Lebleba, Ahmed El Sakka, Khaled Al Nabawi, and Yasmine Sabry from Egypt.
The ceremony included artistic performances, including a song by the Lebanese Ramy Ayyash entitled "Doki Ya Mazika" and another performed by the opera singer Farah Al-Dibani in French and Arabic as a tribute to the artists who left in 2020 entitled "A Love Story", in addition to a dance performance that was inspired by the work of the late Mahmoud Reda.
At the opening, the festival honored the French actor Gérard Depardieu and the Egyptian landscape designer Ansi Abu Seif with the "Creative Achievement" award, while the French-American actor of Moroccan origin Saeed Taghamawi received the Omar Sharif award.
In the feature-length feature films competition, the opening film "The Man Who Sold His Back" to Tunisian Kawthar Ben Haniyeh is shown. It is a Tunisian, French, Belgian, Swedish, German, and Saudi film.
The film revolves around "Sam", a sensitive and spontaneous young Syrian man who fled to Lebanon to escape the war in his country, without obtaining an official residence permit, and "Sam" fails to obtain a visa to Europe, where his beloved Abeer lives.
The festival ends on the 31st of this month and displays about 65 films from 42 countries around the world.
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