Luxor Film Festival Dedicates its Third Round to Shady Abdel Salam
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- 10:51 AM - 17 November 2013
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Organizers of the third round of Luxor Film Festival for African Cinema have decided to dedicate this year's round, which will take place from the 16th to the 24th of next March, to the memory of late Egyptian director Shady Abdel Salam, and Senegali director Ousmane Sembène.
Festival President Sayed Fouad stated that the watching committee will stillbe working until late December, pointing out that the festival hasreceived 191 films so far, including long features, shorts, documentaries and animated movies, representing 34 participating African countries: Burkina Faso, Nigeria, Cameroon, Congo, Cote D'ivoire, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Mali, Niger, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, South Africa, Mauritania, Tunisia, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Central Africa, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Sudan, Somalia, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zimbabwe, Algeria, Benin and Botswana, in addition to Egypt.
Sayed Fouad also added that films from Asia, Europe and South America are going to participate in both feature and short films competitions,produced in collaboration with African countries. Countries participating from outside of Africa include France, Portugal,Bulgaria, Brazil, U.S.A, Italy, New Zealand, Germany, India, Netherlands, Switzerland, England, Iraq, Yemen and Palestine. Othercountries will also participate in “Freedom Films” competition, which awards a prize named after the deceased Egyptian journalist ElHosseiny Abu Deif.
Fouad mentioned that the festival will be honoring Senegal this year,choosing it as an honor guest for this year's round. The festival is sponsored by the ministries of Culture, Tourism, Foreign Affairs, and Youth, in collaboration with the Cinema Union and the Governorate of Luxor.
“ The Mummy" by Shady Abdel Salam has been recently chosen as the best Arabic film on Dubai Film Festival's list of the best 100 Arabic films, after a poll was made in which 1000 Arab filmmakers voted.
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