El Gouna Film Festival · 2019

Third edition

19 September to 27 September 2019.

  • 83 films from 44 countries, 7 of them Egyptian and 21 Arab.
  • 18 Stars and prizes, given by 21 jurors on 5 panels.

The night of the Stars: the Golden Star went to You Will Die at Twenty. Every Star of 2019

The programme

83

Every 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

15
Silver StarBest ActorCorpus ChristiJan KomasaFIPRESCI critics’ prize1982Oualid MouanessArab filmBest ActressNoura's DreamHinde BoujemaaArab filmBronze StarAdamMaryam TouzaniArab filmBest Arab filmPapichaMounia MeddourArab filmGolden StarYou Will Die at TwentyAmjad Abu AlalaEgyptian filmWhite on WhiteThéo CourtAmerican SkinNate ParkerThey Say Nothing Stays the SameJoe OdagiriOur Lady of the NileAtiq RahimiThe Weeping WomanJayro BustamanteThe Girl with a BraceletStéphane DemoustierThe FatherKristina Grozeva, Petar ValchanovLaraJan-Ole GersterSong Without a NameMelina León

Feature Documentary Competition

14
Best Arab filmIbrahim: A Fate to DefineLina Al AbedArab filmSilver Star143 Sahara StreetHassen FerhaniArab filmBronze StarAdamMaryam TouzaniArab filmBronze StarNETPAC awardKabul, City in the WindAboozar AminiGolden StarYou Will Die at TwentyAmjad Abu AlalaEgyptian filmGolden StarTalking About TreesSuhaib GasmelbariArab filmCunninghamAlla KovganKongoHadrien La Vapeur, Corto VaclavThe KingmakerLauren GreenfieldOne Child NationNanfu Wang, Jialing ZhangAnother RealityNoël Dernesch, Olli WaldhauerMidnight FamilyLuke LorentzenUntouchableUrsula MacfarlaneTiny SoulsDina NaserArab film

Short Film Competition

24
Bronze StarFleshCamila KaterSpecial jury mention16 DecemberÁlvaro Gago DíazBest Arab filmGive Up the GhostZain DuraieArab filmGolden StarExamSonia K. HadadSilver StarOmeWassim GeageaArab filmAll InclusiveTeemu NikkiThe Tears ThingClémence PoésyIn VitroLarissa Sansour, Søren LindArab filmFreekehBassel GhandourArab filmThis Is My NightYusuf NoamanEgyptian filmThe NutcatcherDomenico ModafferiNightcrawlersArturo BaltazarIn Our SynagogueIvan OrlenkoJetskiSharif Abdel MawlaViolent EquationAntonis DoussiasShe RunsYang QiuMonster GodAgustina San MartinDelivery ServiceVladimir Koptsev, Elena KoptsevaThink Positive!Irina KhodyushThe Man Who Didn’t Want to Leave HomeSavino GenoveseBottleneckMåns BerthasIn BetweenSamir KarahodaSelfie ZeinAmira DiabArab filmColor BlindMenna EkramEgyptian film

Official Selection Out of Competition

27

Special Program

6
The White SheikFederico FelliniThe Spider's StratagemBernardo BertolucciCentral StationWalter SallesThe Well of DeprivationKamal El SheikhEgyptian filmStolen KissesFrançois TruffautAfrican Cinema: Filming Against All OddsFérid BoughedirArab film

Worked on one of these films? Find your name.

goat grids keeps the credits of the people behind Egyptian and Arab films. Your name may already be in them.

The juries

21

Feature Narrative Competition

  • Khairy BesharaPresident · Egypt
  • Mai MasriPalestine
  • Nashen Moodley
  • Resul Pookutty
  • Stas Tyrkin

Feature Documentary Competition

  • Moussa TouréPresident · Senegal
  • Anne Aghion
  • Ludmila Cvikova
  • Talal DerkiSyria
  • Nahed NasrallahEgypt

Short Film Competition

  • Marwan HamedPresident · Egypt
  • Juanita OnzagaColombia / Belgium
  • Jukka-Pekka Laakso
  • Mohamed DaradjiIraq
  • Dorra ZarroukTunisia

NETPAC

  • Gulnara AbikeyevaKazakhstan
  • Nada AzhariSyria / France
  • Hasan HaddadBahrain

FIPRESCI critics

  • Karsten KastelanGermany
  • Mervat OmarEgypt
  • Frédéric PonsardFrance

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