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The statement described Durbadeo “as the lover of the Zionist entity
The “El Gouna Film Festival” is scheduled to begin next week (between October 23 and 31), amid a storm of controversy, in the context of the festival’s decision to honor French actor Gerard Depardieu . Dozens of filmmakers, writers and public figures signed a statement denouncing this honor, led by: directors Ali Badrakhan, Muhammad Fadel and Hamid Saeed, artist Firdous Abdel Hamid, and film critic and academic Malik Khoury. The statement described Depardieu as a “lover of the Zionist entity”, noting that his honor is a “violation of what the General Assembly of Art Unanimously agreed”, and most of the Egyptian artists, and all who they refused to normalize with the Zionist enemy, in addition to the fact that the French actor is accused of a rape case that is still under investigation. The statement declared “their strong rejection of honor and all forms of normalization” or “support for all those who support the brutal Zionist enemy for our Arab lands to be liberated.” He noted that all Egyptian artists and creators “express their rejection of what the administration of the El Gouna Film Festival will do,” which “insults the values of humanity and dignity,” according to the statement. The objection to honoring the French actor has been repeated in previous editions, through a group of Egyptian filmmakers confronted with a previous attempt to honor the French Claude Lillous, who supported “Israel” at the Cairo International Film Festival, and at that time forced the organizers to cancel the award.
