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On pleasing audience: Mahmoud Hemeda gives acting masterclass during Luxor African Film Festival
Egyptian actor Mahmoud Hemeda delivered a master class on acting skills and talked about his career during the Luxor African Film Festival, which took place from 15 to 21 March 2019. The masterclass started with screening some scenes and trailers of various films in which Hemeda starred. The talk was moderated by the festival’s President, …
Looking into 2019 Luxor African Film Festival programme
Aside from the long-feature film competition, the Luxor African Film Festival included other competitions which brought dozens of films from all over the continent, in different forms, long features, documentaries, and shorts. In the long documentary films competition, 10 films were screened. The first was Boxing Libreville. It follows Christ, a young boxer who trains …
Eighth edition of Luxor African Film Festival launches from Karnak Temple
The 8th edition of the Luxor African Film Festival (LAFF) kicked off on Friday with the attendance of several renowned Egyptian filmmakers, artists, state officials, and diplomats. The festival was held under the slogan “Cinema: Many Lives to Live,” from 15 to 21 March. The festival’s director, Sayed Fouad, said in the opening speech that …
Experts, artists, academics at Luxor African Film Festival assert culture’s importance to development
Cultural development should get same attention as militaries, economies in Africa, says festival president Sayed Fouad
Luxor African Film Festival kicks off with marathon of distinguished screenings from the continent
Inauguration ceremony witnessed honouring of prominent director Youssef Chahine
Festival is gate to enhance relations between Egypt, African countries: Azza al-Husseiny
Daily News Egypt say down with Azza al-Husseiny, Luxor African Film Festival executive director, to discuss the latest features of the festival. What will be the special features in this edition of the Luxor African Film Festival? The mundane aspect of every film festival is the four main competitions: long narrative, long documentary, short narrative, …
Artists should manage film festivals, not government employees: Sayed Fouad
Diversity, increase of cultural events, state-sponsored or private, is always beneficial for society, says Luxor African Film Festival president
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Luxor African Film Festival: Cinema for a better tomorrow
The Luxor African Film Festival is an annual celebration of films, art, and criticism, while keeping a close eye on African cinema and its different contemporary issues. The festival has been building up momentum to reach out to different artists and filmmakers from the African continent, to bridge the gap between Arabic-speaking African countries and …
Luxor African Film Festival to kick off 16 March
The Luxor African Film Festival held a press conference on Sunday announcing its full programme and schedule for its seventh edition, due to begin on 16 March. The festival is organised by the Independent Shabab Foundation (ISF), which was founded in 2006 and aims at developing capable film artists across Egypt. According to the festival’s …