Egypt’s Sharm el Sheikh Film Festival to dedicate its 4th edition to veteran director Daoud Abdel Sayed

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Egypt Today staff

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Mon, 11 Jan 2021 - 10:24 GMT

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Egypt Today staff

Mon, 11 Jan 2021 - 10:24 GMT

File: Daoud Abdel Sayed.

File: Daoud Abdel Sayed.

CAIRO - 11 January 2021:  Egypt’s Sharm el Sheikh Film Festival announced dedicating its 4th edition to veteran Egyptian director Daoud Abdel Sayed.

 

Abdel Sayed is a distinguished Egyptian director and scriptwriter who was born in Cairo in 1946.

 

He debuted his artistic career as the assistant of  late great Egyptian director Youssef Chahinr in “ El Ard” ( The Land) movie.

 

His cinematic repertoire houses a number of successful films, and won several international awards notably for “ Ard el Khorshed” (The Land of Fear) which was produced in 1999.

 Abdel Sayed is regarded as one of the pioneers of a school of thought in Egyptian cinema called “New Realism”.
 
 
New Realism appeared in Egypt in the 1980s as a revival of the wave of realism that had dominated Egyptian cinema in the 1960s.
 
The rise of the original realism in the 1950s called for filmmaking that reflected the daily life of the indigenous Egyptian population, paying attention to the choice of the “simple man” from the lower social class and portraying him as the protagonist.
 
 

Daoud Abdel Sayed films not only attempt to portray the realistic existence of the indigenous Egyptian peoples, it also attempted  to show how their reality is undergoes processes of change.

 

Abdel Sayed’s “ El Bahes An Sayed Marzouk” (The Search for Sayid Marzuq) is a police film that attempted to look at the issue of citizenship as “measured along the malfunctions of the modern nation-state.”.

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