El Gouna Film Festival · 2024

Seventh edition

24 October to 1 November 2024. It opened with The Man Who Could Not Remain Silent.

  • 84 films from 48 countries, 10 of them Egyptian and 27 Arab.
  • 26 Stars and prizes, given by 24 jurors on 6 panels.

The night of the Stars: the Golden Star went to Ghost Trail. Every Star of 2024

The programme

84

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
Best Arab film · sharedThank You for Banking with Us!Laila AbbasEgyptian filmSilver StarThe KingdomJulien ColonnaGolden StarBest ActorGhost TrailJonathan MilletBest Arab film · sharedWho Do I Belong ToMeryam JoobeurArab filmBronze StarSpecial mentionFIPRESCI critics’ prizeGirls Will Be GirlsShuchi TalatiSpecial mentionMy EverythingAnne-Sophie BaillyBest ActressSalve MariaMar CollAlgiersChakib Taleb-BendiabArab filmOn FallingLaura CarreiraCrickets, It's Your TurnOlga KorotkoToxicSaulė BliuvaitėStrangerZhengfan YangEverybody Loves ToudaNabil AyouchArab filmThe Inevitable Journey to Find a Wedding DressJaylan AufEgyptian filmTiny LightsBeata Parkanova

Feature Documentary Competition

12
Best Arab film · sharedThe Brink of DreamsNada Riyadh, Ayman El AmirEgyptian filmBest Arab film · sharedMy Memory Is Full of GhostsAnas ZawahriArab filmGolden StarNETPAC awardWe Are InsideFarah KassemArab filmSilver StarSoundtrack to a Coup d'EtatJohan GrimonprezBronze StarGreen Star, special mentionA New Kind of WildernessSilje Evensmo JacobsenTataLina Vdovîi, Radu CiorniciucThe Miraculous Transformation of the Working Class into ForeignersSamirElementaryClaire SimonMistress DispellerElizabeth LoTell Them About UsRand BeirutyArab filmDeath Without MercyWaad AlKateabCilamaHady ZaccakArab film

Short Film Competition

16
Golden StarUpshotMaha HajArab filmBest Arab filmA Promise to the SeaHend SohailEgyptian filmBronze StarEbb & FlowNay TabbaraArab filmSilver Star · sharedAn Orange from JaffaMohammed AlmughanniSilver Star · sharedHow We Got Mother BackGonçalo WaddingtonSpecial mention · sharedVoicelessSamuel PattheySpecial mention · sharedDawn Every DayAmir YoussefEgyptian filmA Chair for HerAhmed IbrahimThe Last MessageSeif MadboulyEgyptian filmThe Eggregores' TheoryAndrea GatopoulosThe WatchmanAli CherriMy Mother is a CowMoara PassoniThe Man Who Could Not Remain SilentNebojsa SlijepcevicDancing in the CornerJan BujnowskiLees WaxulYoro MbayeMermaidsSarah Malléon

Official Selection Out of Competition

30

Special Presentations

11

Window on Palestine

6
Khaled and NemaSohail DahdalArab filmThe DupesTewfik SalehArab filmMaqlubaMike ElsherifThe KeyRakan MayasiArab filmA Short Film About KidsIbrahim HandalArab filmUndrKamal AljafariArab film

Special Program

11

Career Achievement Awardees

2
Fallen Angels ParadiseOsama FawzyEgyptian filmMemory BoxJoana Hadjithomas, Khalil JoreigeArab film

2
Fallen Angels ParadiseOsama FawzyEgyptian filmMemory BoxJoana Hadjithomas, Khalil JoreigeArab film

El Gouna Classics

2
NutshellKhairy BesharaEgyptian filmSnakes and LaddersTarek AlarianEgyptian film

Midnight Screenings

1
The Texas Chain Saw MassacreTobe Hooper

Worked on one of these films? Find your name.

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The juries

24

Feature Narrative Competition

  • Nandita DasPresident · India
  • Charles TessonFrance
  • Sibel KekilliGermany
  • Sofia DjamaAlgeria
  • Menna ShalabyEgypt

Feature Documentary Competition

  • Eliane RahebPresident · Lebanon
  • Hicham FalahMorocco
  • Jérôme PaillardFrance
  • Nejib BelkadhiTunisia
  • Steffi NiederzollGermany

Short Film Competition

El Gouna Green Star

FIPRESCI critics

  • Arwa Tag EldeenPresident · Sudan
  • Francisco FerreiraPortugal
  • Letícia AlassëBrazil

NETPAC

  • Asif RustamovPresident · Azerbaijan
  • Ludmila CvikovaSlovakia
  • Kais KasimIraq / Sweden

Honoured at the seventh edition

2024Career Achievement Award

محمود حميدةMahmoud Hemida

2024Career Achievement Award

Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige

2024Art Behind the Scenes Career (Creative Achievement) Award

ناهد نصر اللهNahed Nasrallah

2024Art Behind the Scenes Award for Recent Achievement

عبد السلام موسىAbdel Salam Mousa

2024Art Behind the Scenes Award for Recent Achievement

احمد الصاويAhmed El Sawy

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