Alexandria Film Festival for Mediterranean Countries to kick off on September 25

CAIRO - 25 September 2021: Alexandria Film Festival for Mediterranean Countries will kick off on September 25.

The management of the Alexandria Film Festival for Mediterranean Countries, previously  announced the launch of a book honoring the artist Khaled El-Sawy, entitled “Khaled El-Sawy.. Faces and Margins”, written by critic Nahid Salah, and it deals with an analytical account of the artist’s biography in which he reveals his roots Family and social and how his family, rooted in the national struggle from Alexandria to Upper Egypt to Al-Zahir neighborhood, downtown and Heliopolis, formed his artistic composition.

This prominent feature in his human history made him an artist on more than one level, a writer, a poet, a director, even a musician, and an actor influenced by his reality.

He plays his roles knowing the boundary between the artistic personality and his real personality.

The book draws a portrait of Khaled El-Sawy, the human and artist, and contains many details and information about him and the background of his artistic career, both in
The theater and its distinguished project on its stage, or television, which added to him a necessary experience, or cinema and its wide space and its various roles that achieved a qualitative leap for him, through a lengthy dialogue characterized by very boldness on the part of Al-Sawy, revealing hidden aspects in his life, and highlighting some of his works that reached Nearly 90 works, for which he received several awards, in addition to testimonies from critics and directors with whom El-Sawy worked, such as Syrian director Anwar Al-Qawadry, director and scriptwriter Imad Al-Bahat, director Mahmoud Kamel, Sudanese critic Khaled Ali, in addition to critical excerpts about him written by Kamal Ramzy, Amir Al-Omari, and the Jordanian official Mahasna.

While the author of the book said that she discovered in the book more than Khaled and more than one story, rich in data and facts that reveal that his life is impossible to tell in one narrative, and it is difficult to ignore the margins in it, given that he is passionate about the margins; Some of them determine the angle of view of the hollow and its ramifications, and some of them capture the faces that help him, whether in his representative project or his clashes with life.