In the third session of the El Gouna Film Festival, which opened yesterday with an atmosphere full of songs and honors in the presence of stars from all over the world, the festival celebrated the Egyptian-Canadian actor Mina Masoud, who played Aladdin in the Hollywood movie Aladdin by Guy Ritchie.
Obviously, attending a special song for the festival has become a tradition associated with the El Gouna film program. Whoever forgets the song "Talat Daqat" performed by singer Abu along with a constellation of Arab artists headed by Yosra was produced during the first session of the festival and in the second session appeared Jonah "In this session the comedian in front of Hosni introduced a song entitled" Simply Sima. "
The atmosphere started from the red carpet that witnessed the influx of many stars of Egypt and the Arab world, where the founder of El Gouna Film Festival Eng. Naguib Sawiris, founder of El Gouna Tourism City and the official sponsor of the El Gouna Film Festival Eng. Co-founder of the El Gouna Film Festival Amr Mansi, Director of the El Gouna Film Festival Inchel Tamimi, Head of Operations, Co-founder of the El Gouna Festival Artist Bushra Riza and artistic director Amir Ramses to be present from the very first moments E attendees flocked to the red carpet.
The red carpet witnessed the presence of art stars such as Laila Alawi, Dalia El Behairy, Rania Youssef, Sherry Adel, Ahmed El Fishawy, his wife, Khaled Selim, his wife, Kinda Alloush, Amr Youssef, director Mohamed Sami, his wife Mai Omar, Dr. Ashraf Zaki, his wife Rogerina, singer Abu and his wife, Rania Youssef, Dora, Bushra, Amina Khalil, Ahmed Dawood and his wife. Ola Rushdie, Hani Ramzy, Nicolas Moawad, Nicole Saba and others.
El Gouna Festival Director Anchal Tamimi said that the third edition of El Gouna Festival carries a lot of ambitions and goals and that each of the nine days is the duration of the festival carries a lot of fun by presenting films in its three competitions are the most prominent productions of international cinema and award-winning Cannes, Berlin and Venice Locarno and others.
Tamimi stressed that the success of the El Gouna platform was possible only with the support of many of the thanks to them, in addition to the festival includes a music concert with the participation of 70 musicians led by Maestro Ahmed Al-Saidi and the celebration of the centenary of Ihsan Abdul Quddus to provide his collection for the first time.
For her part, actress Mona Zaki announced during the opening ceremony of a special agreement between El Gouna Festival and UNICEF and thus as an ambassador for UNICEF, a five-year agreement, stressing that the agreement aims to discuss children's issues through a festival supporting humanitarian issues since its first session.
Canadian actor Mina Massoud, Moroccan actress Nisrine Al Radhi, was awarded the prize of his charity "EDA", a non-profit charity aimed at helping artists of different nationalities, for her film "Adam", which tells the story of three North African women.
Masood said that this award was designed to honor artists of different nationalities, and that he was happy this year to watch many different films from all cultures, and was impressed by everything he saw, stressing that he fell in love with the film "Adam", because it tells the story of many generations through three women North Africans have extraordinary strength and commitment that reminded him of his mother and sisters and the way he was raised.
The opening ceremony witnessed the award of the creative achievement award by Palestinian director Mai Masri and the award was given to the Palestinian director Hani Abu-Assad, while the jury members of the festival stepped on the stage and are the chairman of the jury of the feature film competition Egyptian director Khairy Bishara, Palestinian director and producer Mai Masri, and Nashin Moodley Director of the Sydney Film Festival, Rasul Bukati, Asia's most renowned sound engineer and Oscar-winner for best sound mixing, Russian film critic Stas Tyrkin, artistic director of the National Devigny Festival and Strelka Film Festival The Jury of the Documentary Competition is Senegalese director, producer and actor Moussa Toure, founder of the Moussa Invite film festival in Senegal, director and producer Anne Agion, Ludmila Chevikova, who has been programmed at the Rotterdam International Film Festival for 15 years, and Talal Derki, the Syrian director and producer For the Oscar in 2019, Egyptian fashion designer Nahed Nasrallah, the president of the jury of the short film competition Egyptian director Marwan Hamed, the Belgian filmmaker and filmmaker Juanita Onzaga, and the director of the Tampere Film Festival Yuka Becca Lux , Director, producer and writer Film Iraqi Mohammed Darraji, who represented his films more than once in the State of Iraq, "Oscar" awards Tunisian actress Dora Zarrouk, concluded the opening ceremony of the festival of El Gouna bid for the band Meas.