Line-up for El Gouna Film Festival announced

CAIRO - 10 September 2017: El Gouna Film Festival announced on its official Facebook page the line-up for all the participating movies as well as the movies that will be featured in the first edition of the festival.



The festival declared that there will be diversity in the screened movies. “Action, drama or comedy, our featured films will make you cry, laugh and keep you on your toes,” El Gouna Film Festival stated on its official Facebook page.

El Gouna Film Festival, which is headed by the Iraqi cinema critic Intishal Al Timimi, will run between September 22 and September 29 at El Gouna in Hurghada.

“Sheikh Jackson” will be the opening movie for the Festival in its first edition. Al-Tamimi said, “We are proud that this special movie will be introduced in the opening ceremony because it will attract many movie producers, not only Arabs, but also foreigners who are interested in these kinds of movies.”