Egyptian cinema wins a golden palm at the Cannes Film Festival

Egyptian director Sameh Alaa’s film “Stacher: I’m afraid of forgetting your face” won the Palme d’Or in the Cannes Film Festival’s Short Film Competition, which ran for just three days.

This is the first time that an Egyptian film has won the Palme d’Or in this contest, which had a huge celebration in Cairo, as the Egyptian Film Professions Syndicate wrote on its Facebook page on Thursday night, “A victory for the short film … “” Stacher “won the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival. “.

The film has production grants from Egypt, France, Belgium and Qatar and deals in 15 minutes with the story of Adam, who tries to get back to his girlfriend after going out 82 days, and then goes through a lot of difficulties because of it.

The festival’s short film competition included 11 films from France, Belgium, Great Britain, Colombia, Mongolia, Portugal, Greece, Canada and the United States.

At the beginning of the year, the festival postponed its 73rd session from May to October due to the Corona pandemic, while shortening it to three days.

Source: Reuters

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