​Famed singer Tania Saleh to perform at El Gouna Film Festival’s opening ceremony

CAIRO - 20 October 2020: Famed Lebanese singer Tania Saleh to perform at El Gouna Film Festival’s opening ceremony which is scheduled to take place on October 23.

"I am off to Egypt today to perform at El-Gouna Film Festival on 23 October at Cairo Jazz Club on 5 November to pay homage to film songs from Egypt and Lebanon," Saleh stated on her official Instagram account on Monday.

The famed Lebanese singer will be accompanied by notable group of musicians; such as Hisham Galal, Ahmed Omran, Hany Bedair and Samer George.

Acclaimed Lebanese presenter Hilda Khalife will host the fourth edition of El GounaFilm Festival’s opening ceremony. 

GFF confirmed 16 films are participating in the Feature Narrative Competition, 10 films in the Feature Documentary Competition, 18 films in the Short Film Competition, and 2 films in GFF’s Special Presentations program for this year's edition.

The festival will be screening 17 films in its Official Selection.

One of the eagerly anticipated highlights of this year is that the festival will be the first public event hosted at Gouna Conference and Culture Center (GCCC).

The concept of this edition’s poster is also inspired by the design of the center, which incorporates an elegant series of barrel vaults enclosing the auditorium with a shaded perimeter layer, where the inside and outside merge, creating an ambiance of transcendent inspiration.

For this year’s CineGouna Platform, El Gouna Film Festival has invited a number of leading regional and international experts in the field of cinema to participate in its various activities. CineGounaSpringBoard received 99 submissions (65 projects in development and 34 films in post-production) from all parts of the Arab world. 

A panel of experts reviewed the submissions and selected 18 projects (12 in development and 6 in post-production) to participate in this year’s edition.

They were carefully chosen on the basis of their content, artistic vision, and overall financial feasibility. The selection committee was very impressed by the high quality of the submitted projects.

The fourth edition of CineGouna Bridge will continue to serve as a forum for effective professional development. It will present a series of roundtable discussions, workshops, presentations, and master classes with key industry professionals and experts.

The programs and activities of CineGouna Platform will take place at the TU Berlin, El GounaCampus from October 25 to 29, 2020.

El Gouna Film Festival will keep supporting Arab cinema at international festivals, empowering Arab filmmakers, especially outside the Arab world. This year, the festival continues to build on its previous collaborations with the 10th Malmo Arab Film Festival and the Final Cut in Venice workshop with cash prizes and support for exposure.

GFF will host an exhibition of the works of accomplished production designer Onsi Abou Seif, which will include some of his designs and sketches, video clips from his films, movie posters, and awards he has received over the course of his career.

El Gouna Film Festival continues its Cinema in Concert tradition—an orchestral performance of film scores of classics and audience favorites. This edition’s Cinema in Concert will be held at the Gouna Conference and Culture Center.

In this edition, GFF will screen Charlie Chaplin's newly restored copy of "The Kid" accompanied by an orchestra led by Maestro Ahmed El-Saidi.

GFF’s fourth edition is sponsored by OrascomDevelopment and El Gouna in association with O West and Minly.