The winners will be announced by the jury on 23 March during an official ceremony that will take place at the Cairo Opera House.
Following the two cancellations due to the Covid-19 pandemic, Egypt’s Minister of Culture Inas Abdel Dayem has launched the activities of the 23rd Egyptian National Film Festival, organised by the Cultural Development Fund sector. The screenings of the films, however, will be attended by the two jury panels only.
Due to the cancellation of the two previous editions, the festival has not limited the entries to films produced in 2020. Works produced in 2018 and 2019 have also been accepted, leading to more than 170 submissions.
The chosen films will compete for the Best Film Award Jury prize and an award for the first work of a director in each section: short films up to 15 minutes, documentary films more than 15 minutes, long fictional films less than 60 minutes, and animation films less than 60 minutes.
The winners will be announced by the jury on March 23 during an official ceremony that will take place at the Cairo Opera House.
Fathy Abdel Wahab, Head of the Cultural Development Fund Sector, said the festival is being supervised by prominent critic Kamal Ramzy, who has succeeded renowned Egyptian director Samir Saif, who died in December 2019.
