El Gouna Film Festival · 2020

Fourth edition

23 October to 31 October 2020.

  • 62 films from 49 countries, 2 of them Egyptian and 11 Arab.
  • 19 Stars and prizes, given by 21 jurors on 5 panels.

The night of the Stars: the Golden Star went to Quo Vadis, Aida?. Every Star of 2020

The programme

62

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

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Golden StarBest ActressQuo Vadis, Aida?Jasmila ŽbanicBest Arab filmThe Man Who Sold His SkinKaouther Ben HaniaArab filmBronze StarNETPAC awardIn Between DyingHilal BaydarovSpecial mentionOasisIvan IkicBest ActorCinema for Humanity audience awardFIPRESCI critics’ prize200 MetersAmeen NayfehArab filmSilver StarBad TalesThe D’Innocenzo BrothersThe Year of FuryRafa RussoNever Gonna Snow AgainMałgorzata Szumowska, Michał EnglertThe FurnaceThe Whaler BoyPhilipp YuryevListenAna Rocha De SousaNowhere SpecialUberto PasolliniWife of a SpyKiyoshi KurosawaThe TiesDaniele LuchettiMicaIsmael FerroukhiArab filmUnder the Stars of ParisClaus Drexel

Feature Documentary Competition

10
Silver StarSoftieSam SokoGolden StarDays of CannibalismTeboho EdkinsBronze StarThe Truffle HuntersMichael Dweck, Gregory KershawBest Arab filmTheir AlgeriaLina SoualemArab filmNotturnoGianfranco RosiA Long BreathRemi ItaniArab filmBanksy Most WantedAurélia Rouvier, Seamus HaleyAcasă, My HomeRadu Ciorniciuc33 Words About DesignNatalya Klimchuk, Olga MorozovaIrradiatedRithy Panh

Short Film Competition

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Golden StarBeing My MomJasmine TrincaBest Arab filmI Am Afraid to Forget Your FaceSameh AlaaEgyptian filmBronze StarSër BiMoly KaneSilver StarBlue FrontierIvan MilosavljevićThe BathAnissa DaoudArab filmPlay SchengenGunhild EngerObvious OffsideSami TililiArab filmRoadblockDahlia NemlichArab filmPilarDiana Van Houten, J. J. Epping, Yngwie BoleyThe Other CheekSandro CanaanEgyptian filmShakwaFarah ShaerArab filmBullmastiffAnastasiia BukovskaPeelSamuel Patthey, Silvain MonneyEnd of SeptemberValentina CasadeiInfluencerRubén BarbosaMare NostrumDimitris AnagnostouDeath of the OfficialArtem GilemyanovStickerGeorgi M. Unkovski

Official Selection Out of Competition

15

Special Presentations

1
Hopper/ WellesOrson Welles

Special Program

1
Hopper/ WellesOrson Welles

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The juries

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Feature Narrative Competition

  • Peter WebberPresident · England
  • Asser YassinEgypt
  • Amjad Abu AlalaSudan
  • Rodrigo SepúlvedaChile
  • Thierry Lenouvel

Feature Documentary Competition

  • Marie-Pierre MaciaPresident
  • Marianne KhouryEgypt
  • Simon El HabreLebanon
  • Freddy OlssonSweden
  • Bernard Karl

Short Film Competition

NETPAC

  • Andrey VasilenkoRussia
  • Italo SpinelliItaly
  • Magdy El TayebEgypt

FIPRESCI critics

  • Rami El-MetwalliEgypt
  • Bitopan Borborah
  • Pierre-Simon GutmanFrance

Honoured at the fourth edition

2020Career Achievement Award

خالد الصاويKhaled El Sawy

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