Egyptian Cinema Eyes Its Next Act as Industry Veterans Call for Better Scripts, Wider Distribution

Egyptian Cinema Eyes Its Next Act as Industry Veterans Call for Better Scripts, Wider Distribution hakkında magazin dünyasında yaşanan en son ayrıntılar ve sıcak gelişmeler netleşti. Oct 25, 2026 2:16am PT Egyptian Cinema Eyes Its Next Act as Industry Veterans Call for Better Scripts, Wider Distribution By Essie Assibu Plus Icon Essie Assibu Latest El Gouna Takeaways: ‘Safe Exit’ Wins Top Prize, Arab TV Seeks New Talent and Egyptian Filmmakers Push Boundaries 23 hours ago British Filmmaker Joanna Hogg on the Fight to Turn Personal Stories Into Fiction: ‘Each Time I’m Learning From Scratch’ 2 days ago Egyptian Screenwriter Mariam Naoum on the Struggle for Arab Series to Find Buyers: ‘We’re Suffocating Inside’ 3 days ago See All Add us as a Google Preferred Source Comments As the ninth edition of El Gouna Film Festival wrapped in Egypt , the conversation among some of the country’s and region’s leading producers and filmmakers turned to what the industry needs to turn its wealth of talent into films that can find audiences both at home and abroad. Egyptian cinema once dominated film production across the Arab world, but output fell dramatically from its late-20th-century heights.

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According to figures from the Egyptian Chamber of Cinema Industry, the country produced 112 films in 1988, before output fell to just 16 a decade later. More recently, production has shown signs of recovery, rising from 51 feature films in 2022 to 67 in 2023.

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“We have all the industry components. But we don’t have scripts.

I have a nice camera, a good DP, but we can’t do anything without good scripts.” Mashish has seen firsthand how new platforms can expand the reach of Egyptian storytelling. He produced the 2016 drama “Grand Hotel,” which became the first Egyptian and first Arabic-language series to land on Netflix when the streamer released it internationally as “Secret of the Nile” in 2018.

He believes younger filmmakers are also benefiting from greater access to work from around the world. “They’re more open-minded.

They’re connected on the internet and everything,” he notes. “Because the platforms are available now, they’re watching more than just our culture.

So they are more open and they are ready to move.” But Mashish argues that new perspectives need to be matched with experience. “We have to bring the old generation and the new generation together,” he explains.

“The new generation brings a different perspective, but cinema still needs experience, so we need to combine that new talent with the expertise that already exists in the industry.” Egyptian director Hadi El Bagoury , whose 2016 “Hepta: The Last Lecture” became the highest-grossing romantic film in Egyptian cinema, points to streaming as one of the biggest opportunities for homegrown talent. The growth of platforms, he argues, has given filmmakers more places to show their work while exposing audiences to a wider range of filmmaking.

“You discover new stories, new directors, new genres,” he says. “You discover a lot more directors, DPs, actors and different styles.” That exposure is also changing what audiences expect from Egyptian cinema.

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