In the competition for the best feature film at the third edition of El Gouna International Film Festival, the Egyptian film is absent in the presence of 15 films, including five Arab films, three of which are signed by female directors from Maghreb countries, namely Mariam Touzani from Morocco and her film by Adam, and director Monia Medawar. Algeria, Babisha, Noura's dream coming from Tunisia by Hind Bou Jomaa, in addition to a film that will die in the twentieth, winning the Lion of the Future at the Venice Film Festival of the Sudanese director Amjad Abu El Ela, and 1982's film by Lebanese director Walid Mounis.
Although the absence of the Egyptian film from competing in this category, El Gouna audience was on a date with a special screening of an Egyptian film under the title of Lama Bintold directed by Tamer Ezzat, but it is clear that this film did not rise to be in competition and the festival merely placed it under the official selection category. .
1- Adam
The Moroccan film Adam tells the director Mariam Touzani about a character named Abla lives and her young daughter in Casablanca quietly and cautiously runs a modest bakery, to start events with pregnant woman Samia, who touched her door and decide Abla to contain the story begins to talk about taboos in the Arab society in an emotional sequence and dramatic development.
2 - Babisha
From Algeria comes the film director Monia Medouar, who talks about a fashion designer who defies all the devastation caused by the civil war in the 1980s, whose dream began to become a fashion designer. This is contrary to the idea of a conservative society that Algeria became after the bloody war but insists on her dream. She rejects the rule of extremists and decides you fought for her choice in life.
3.Nora's dream
Tunisian director Hend Boudjemaa comes with her film Dream Nora, which starred Hind Sabri, tells the story of Nora, a mother of three children and the wife of Sufian, who is serving his sentence in prison.Nora takes responsibility for her children and works in a laundry shop. During this time she lives a great love story, and she decides to ask for a divorce from Sufian.