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El Gouna International Film Festival is back with its highly anticipated 6th edition, set to take place from December 14th to December 21st. After a brief hiatus, the festival returns with a fresh and distinctive approach, showcasing a diverse lineup of films from around the world, with a strong emphasis on Arab cinema while standing in solidarity with Palestine.
Ibrahim Shaddad
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Shaddad directed The Rope, documenting two blind men going through the desert accompanied by a donkey. Connected by a rope, sometimes the two men decide the way, and sometimes the donkey leads them through the desert.
The other movie is Hunting Party, which is a treatise on racism. Shot in a forest in Brandenburg, it uses a Western look to portray the hunt for a black man.
Ayten Amin
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The Egyptian filmmaker is joining GIFF with her latest movie, The Shanabs. It revolves around the Al Shanab sisters, who reconcile their differences following the loss of a family member.
Mohammed Almughanni
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Shujayya is a short movie representing the Palestinian situation from a political, cultural, and psychological point of view. In a few minutes, it conveys the tragic nature of the conflict, particularly in Gaza, and the challenging and inconsistent cultural background.
Mohamed Jabaly
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Jabaly is participating in the festival with the movie, Ambulance. It follows Palestinian ambulance drivers through the 51-day-long war between Israel and Gaza in 2014.
Amr Salama
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The festival's opening film, 60 Egyptian Pounds, follows aspiring rapper Ziad Zaza and his family, who have long suffered at the hands of his abusive father. When tensions reach a boiling point, Ziad takes it upon himself to end his family's suffering once and for all.
Menna Ekram
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Let Us Play Yesterday by Menna Ekram depicts an event where students defy established hierarchies within a convent school, compellingly showing the conflict between youthful defiance and established norms.
Ibrahim Nashaat
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Nashaat's Hollywood Gate tells a story about the period after the US pullout from Afghanistan; Taliban forces entered the Hollywood Gate complex, which is claimed to be a former CIA base in Kabul.
El Tayeb El Mahdi
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El Mahdi is joining GIFF with three films! First, The Tomb tells the story of a man who claims to be able to heal people. The second is Four Times for Children, which offers a touching and insightful look into the daily lives of children with physical or cognitive impairments.
Lastly, El Mahdi's The Station is about people crossing the desert on foot or covering long distances by car and truck.
Lina Soualem
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Bye Bye Tiberias is about four generations of women and their shared legacy of separation. Years after leaving her Palestinian village to pursue an acting career in France, Hiam Abbass returns home with her daughter, and that's what Lina's heartfelt documentary is about.
