El Gouna Film Festival · 2018
Second edition
20 September to 28 September 2018.
- 74 films from 41 countries, 7 of them Egyptian and 18 Arab.
- 17 Stars and prizes, given by 12 jurors on 1 panels.
The night of the Stars: the Golden Star went to A Land Imagined. Every Star of 2018
The programme
74Every film the festival listed for this edition, section by section. Point at a poster, or press it, and it comes forward.
Where a film's own poster is not on the record yet, goat grids draws one from its title.
Feature Narrative Competition
15Golden StarA Land ImaginedYeo Siew Hua
Special mentionThe Man Who Surprised EveryoneAlexei Chupov, Natalya Merkulova
Silver StarRay & LizRichard Billingham
Best Arab filmCinema for Humanity audience award · sharedYomeddineAbu Bakr Shawky
Best ActressCold WarPawel Pawlikowski
Best ActorDear SonMohamed Ben Attia
Divine WindMerzak Allouache
Ricordi?Valerio MieliToo Late to Die YoungDominga SotomayorGhost FleetShannon Service, Jeffrey Waldron
History of LoveSonja ProsencTumbbadRahi Anil Barve, Adesh Prasad.ScrewdriverBassam Jarbawi
The Day I Lost My ShadowSoudade Kaadan
The HarvestersEtienne KallosFeature Documentary Competition
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Golden StarAquarelaVictor Kossakovsky
Cinema for Humanity audience award · sharedAnother Day of LifeRaúl De La Fuente, Damian Nenow
Silver StarBest Arab filmOf Fathers and SonsTalal Derki
Bronze StarThe SwingCyril Aris
Graves Without a NameRithy Panh
The Price of FreeDerek DoneenOur TeamJeff Zimbalist, Michael Zimbalist
Dream AwayMarouan Omara, Johanna Domke
What Comes AroundReem Saleh
Samouni RoadStefano SavonaAmericaClaus DrexelShort Film Competition
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Best Arab filmEyeBrowsTamer AshrySilver StarJudgementRaymund Ribay Gutierrez
Bronze StarSheikh's WatermelonsKaouther Ben Hania
Golden StarOur Song to WarJuanita Onzaga
Hi I Need to Be LovedMarnie Ellen Hertzler
TomaticChristophe M. SaberEvaXheni AlushiMy Best Friend’s ShoesAjitpal SinghMiscellaneousLeon Yersin
The night of CesareSergio Scavio
Fork & KnifeAdam Abd El Ghaffar
The CordAllaith Hajjo
All InclusiveCorina Schwingruber Ilić
Son of a DancerGeorges HazimThe GiftLatifa Doghri
LaborCecilia Albertini
GuaxumaNara Normande
CalendarIgor Poplauhin
All These CreaturesCharles Williams
Abdullah and LeilahAshtar Al KhirsanSpringNathalia KonchalovskyStrange Planet TheoryMarco Antonio Pereira
The NephewWilhelm KuhnOfficial Selection Out of Competition
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Bronze StarThe HeiressesMarcelo Martinessi
PeterlooMike Leigh
Real LoveClaire Berger- With The WindBettina Oberli
The Old Man & the GunDavid Lowery
McQueenIan Bonhôte, Peter Ettedgui
GunshotKarim El ShenawyEgyptian film
A Paris EducationJean Paul Civeyrac
Ulysse & MonaSebastien Betbeder
The FreshmenThomas Lilti
Winter FliesOlmo Omerzu
U – July 22Erik Poppe
Dilili in ParisMichel Ocelot
The Wild Pear TreeNuri Belgi Ceylan
Happy as LazzaroAlice Rohrwacher
At WarStéphane Brizé, Stéphane Brizé
MugMalgorzata Szumowska
DogmanMatteo Garrone
ShopliftersHirokazu Kore-eda
The GuiltyGustav Möller
Special Program
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The juries
12Official juries (panel not stated)
- Ali Suliman
- Mona ZakiEgypt
- Ahmed El MaanouniMorocco
- Carlo Chatrian
- Cedomir KolarCroatia
- Rashid MasharawiPalestine
- Ally Derks
- Mike PandeyIndia
- Ana UrushadzeGeorgia
- Saba MubarakJordan
- Doris BauerAustria
- Kamel El BashaPalestine
Honoured at the second edition
2018Career Achievement Award
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