The El-Gouna film festival, scheduled for October, will take place next year, its organizers announced on Sunday evening, saying that “
global challenges
” were not conducive to its organization in Egypt, affected by the outbreak. prices born of the war in Ukraine.
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No precise date has been decided for the sixth edition of this Arab cinema meeting which, each year, brings in stars from all over the region but also beyond, with in previous editions Forest Whitaker or Owen Wilson.
In 2017, real estate magnate Samih Sawiris founded this festival in the city of el-Gouna, on the Red Sea, 450 kilometers southeast of Cairo.
This posh seaside resort was itself created in 1989 by the Sawiris family, the richest in Egypt.
During its last edition in October 2021, the festival rewarded the Egyptian film
Feathers
(
Feathers
) by Omar El-Zohairy, which won an award at Cannes a few months earlier, creating controversy in the country.
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Actors and deputies had accused the feature film, half-absurd half-social painting, of "
tarnishing the reputation
" of the country where, however, according to the World Bank, two out of three inhabitants live below or just at the level of the threshold of poverty.
Hit by runaway inflation, huge public spending on infrastructure and a brutal devaluation, Egypt is discussing a new loan with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) as the country's budget of around $160 billion is burdened by a public debt that reaches 90% of GDP.
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