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The red carpet of the fourth edition of the El Gouna Film Festival was attended by a large number of art stars, among which were Yusra, Laila Alawi, Ilham Shaheen, Menna Shalaby, Ahmed El Sakka, his wife, Amina Khalil, Belba, Aisha bin Ahmed, Khaled Al Sawy, Nasreen Tafesh, Sabri Fawaz, the singer, and Reem Mustafash, and his wife, Abu Awamer, Reem Mustafashiten.
The opening night will witness the screening of the film “The man who sold his back” by Tunisian director Kawthar Ben Haniyeh, which premiered internationally at the Venice Film Festival after being shown in the “Horizons” section, where the hero of the film, Yahya Mahaini, won the Best Actor award, and the film also won the Adebo King Award for inclusion, which is an award inspired by the principles of social cooperation.
The film participated as a project in development two years ago at the El Gouna Film Platform, in the second edition of the El Gouna Film Festival, and is screened and directed by Kawthar Ben Haniyeh, starring Yehia Maheeni, international star Monica Bellucci, Dia Elian, Queen de Bo.
The film chronicles the journey of the young Syrian Sam Ali, who emigrated to Lebanon escaping the ongoing war in Syria. In one of the art galleries, he meets “Geoffrey Godfra”, the most famous artist in the field of contemporary art, and they come to a strange agreement of this kind, to be painted on the back. “Sam” made him a live work of art, in exchange for a visa to travel and meet his girlfriend in Belgium..
The festival wishes to provide a safe session and in order to achieve security measures, protection and social divergence with respect to the Corona epidemic (Covid-19), the festival assigns a special security team, to assume full responsibility for monitoring and implementing the health and safety protocols before, during and after the festival ends..
