10 Films to Track at El Gouna, From Cannes and Berlin Standouts to Rising Arab Filmmakers

10 Films to Track at El Gouna, From Cannes and Berlin Standouts to Rising Arab Filmmakers hakkında magazin dünyasında yaşanan en son ayrıntılar ve sıcak gelişmeler netleşti. Oct 16, 2026 7:30am PT 10 Films to Track at El Gouna, From Cannes and Berlin Standouts to Rising Arab Filmmakers By Essie Assibu Plus Icon Essie Assibu Latest El Gouna Artistic Director Andrew Mohsen Puts ‘Discovery’ First: ‘We’re Trying to Draw Attention’ to Overlooked Films 57 minutes ago 5 Fribourg Film Festival Takeaways, From Audience-Driven Programming to Political Cinema 7 months ago Leon Le on Reframing Vietnam Beyond the Western Gaze: ‘Vietnamese Stories Have Been Told Through a Dated, Disrespectful, Ignorant Lens’ 7 months ago See All Add us as a Google Preferred Source Comments The ninth edition of Egypt’s El Gouna Film Festival brings together a strong showing of Arab cinema to the Red Sea, with a lineup spanning emerging regional voices, established filmmakers, and prize-winning titles from Cannes, Berlin, Venice, Sundance and Shanghai. Across its narrative, documentary and short-film competitions, this year’s selection features stories of love, memory and family, as well as war and displacement, while offering glimpses of communities navigating political, social and economic upheaval.

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Several titles also underscore El Gouna’s growing role in nurturing projects before they reach the screen, with filmmakers and projects previously supported through CineGouna, the festival’s industry arm, returning with completed works. Related Stories Variety’s ‘Pixels and Pencils’ Animation Panel Returns to SCAD Savannah Film Festival With Directors of ‘Wildwood,’ ‘Ray Gunn’ and More ‘The Monster of Florence’ Director Stefano Sollima on ‘Completely Different’ Second Chapter of Netflix’s Hit Serial Killer Series: ‘A Very Complex Story to Tell’ (EXCLUSIVE) Here are 10 titles to keep an eye on at this year’s festival.

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Popular on Variety Feature Narrative Competition “Safe Exit” (2026) (Mohammed Hammad, Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, Qatar, Germany. Produced by Kholoud Saad, Dora Bouchoucha, Dina Farouk, Ibrahim El-Batout, and May Odeh) A decade after his feature debut, Egyptian filmmaker Mohammed Hammad delivers his sophomore film, “Safe Exit,” which premiered at this year’s Berlinale.

Set in downtown Cairo, it centers on Samaan, a Coptic Christian security guard haunted by his father’s murder by extremists, whose life changes when he meets Fatma, an impoverished sex worker facing struggles of her own. Hammad explores faith, isolation, and some of the contradictions of contemporary Egyptian society.

His debut, “ Withered Green ,” screened at El Gouna’s inaugural edition in 2017. “Only Rebels Win” (2026) (Danielle Arbid, France, Lebanon, Qatar.

Produced by Omar El Kadi, Nadia Turincev and Georges Schoucair) Widowed and with her children now grown, Suzanne (Hiam Abbass), a Lebanese woman of Palestinian origin, finds herself free to put herself first. When she falls for Osmane, a younger undocumented Sudanese migrant in Beirut, their relationship puts that newfound independence to the test.

When the war made shooting in Lebanon impossible, director Danielle Arbid had a local crew film the Beirut locations without actors, then used the footage as rear projections while shooting in a Paris studio. “Only Rebels Win” opened the Panorama section at this year’s Berlinale.

“ 3 Weeks After ” (2026) (Miroslav Terzić, Serbia, Bulgaria, Italy, Croatia, Luxembourg. Produced by Snežana van Houwelingen and Branislav Trifunović) Fresh off of winning the Europa Cinemas Label at Karlovy Vary, Miroslav Terzić’s “3 Weeks After” centers on a group of students stranded at a

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