El Gouna Film Festival Brings Back Window on Palestine Strand for a Second Year: ‘This Is Touching Us All’
variety.comRafa Sales Ross Guest Contributor After canceling the 2022 edition, the El Gouna Film Festival team was looking forward to returning in full force in 2023 but was faced with having to postpone the festival three times due to the war in Gaza.
During the scaled-down edition held in December, the festival responded to the conflict by programming a special strand titled Window on Palestine, which included films such as Farah Nabulsi’s “The Teacher” and panel discussions on Palestinian filmmaking in times of crisis.
With the war still ongoing as the festival returns for its seventh edition, which will take place in the Egyptian resort town between Oct.
24-Nov. 1, the festival team decided to bring back its Window of Palestine program for a second year. Among the selected Palestinian titles are Laila Abbas’ “Thanks for Banking With Us!,” Maha Haj’s Locarno prize-winning short “Upshot” and Mohammed Almughanni’s “An Orange From Jaffa,” which tells the story of a young Palestinian trying to cross an Israeli checkpoint and took the Special Jury Prize at the Clermont-Ferrand Intl.
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