File: The Man Who Sold His Skin poster.
CAIRO – 23 0ctober 2020: ‘’The Man Who Sold His Skin’’ (L'Homme qui avait vendu sa peau) directed by Kaouther Ben Hania will be the opening film of the fourth edition of El Gouna Film Festival which will kick off on October 23.
The movie revolves around Sam Ali, a young, sensitive and impulsive Syrian, fled to Lebanon to escape the Syrian war.
Without legal status, he is unable to get a visa to go to Europe, where his beloved Abeer lives. While in Beirut, he meets Jeffrey Godefroi, a famous American artist with whom he concludes a strange deal that will forever change his life.
‘’The Man Who Sold His Skin’’ was among the winning CineGouna SpringBoard projects in development at the 2nd edition of GFF.
The film received the Edipo Re Inclusion Award, while actor Yahya Mahayni received the Orizzonti Award for Best Actor at the 77th Venice Film Festival.
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.
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