The Second Luxor Egyptian & European Film Festival will run From the 19^th to the 25^th of January 2014

The Luxor Egyptian & European Film Festival is organized by Noon Foundation for Culture and Arts (NOONCA), with the contribution of the Egyptian Ministry of Culture as well as public and private organizations in Egypt and Europe. The second edition of the festival will be held from the 19^th to the 25^th of January, 2014.

The festival’s main goal is to foster knowledge and promote dissemination in Egypt of high quality cinematographic and audiovisual works directed by Egyptian and European filmmakers, and to develop Egyptian-European dialogue in the field of cinema. The Luxor Egyptian & European Film Festival seeks to encourage Egyptian and European directors through the prizes awarded and to attract a new audience for cinema in Upper Egypt.

  The choice of the city of Luxor as a location for this festival has the purpose of conquering a new audience in a region where theatres have disappeared. Noon Foundation for Art and Culture has the support of the national and local cultural authorities.

  The challenge is great: we want to attract the audience of Upper Egypt to discover a European cinema rich with its talents and diversity, and to promote Egyptian cinema which has lost its natural audience in Upper Egypt after the disappearance of movie theatres during the last decades.

  Furthermore, the organization of the festival in Luxor aims to encourage cultural tourism in this historical and mythical city. The guests of the Luxor Egyptian & European Film Festival will be able to participate in all the Festival’s activities and spend lovely cinematographic and cultural evenings there after having visited the ancient sites of this city in the morning.

This Year our honory president will be the son of upper Egypt the great poet Abd El Rahman El Abnoudy .

The Luxor Egyptian & European Film Festival is made up of the following sections:

·         A section for long feature films produced in 2012 – 2013.

·         A section for short fiction films produced in 2012 – 2013.

·         Close–up on Independent Egyptian Cinema.

·         A close-up on the New German cinema

·         A tribute paid to the Egyptian actor Nour El Sherif.

·         A tribute paid to the Russian Director Vladimir Menshov.

·         A Section for Classical Egyptian Cinema; the festival will focus on different kinds of Egyptian Cinema every year.

Official Competition for feature films:

IN BLOOM                                by Nana Ekvtimishvilli                   Georgia & Simon Grob

AGE OF PANIC                          by Justine Triet                             France

THE ALMOST MAN                  by Martin Lund                            Norway

THE ENEMY WITHIN               by YourgosTsemboropoulos       Greece

THE PLAGUE                             by NeusBallus                             Spain

WITHERING                                           by Milos Pusic                             Serbia

EAT, SLEEP, DIE                       by Gabriela Pichler                      Sweden

ROXANNA                                  by ValiHotea                                Romania                  

A LONG AND HAPPY LIFE       by Boris Khlebnikov                 Russia

MIRACLE                                     by                                                Czech Rep

EXCUSE MY ENGLISH             by Amr Salama                            Egypt

                        FACTORY "S GIRLS                  by Mohamed Khan                     Egypt                        

Official competition for Short films (23films):

Bizness                                                by Manu Coeman                         Belgium

Bird Food                                            by Richard Keane                         Ireland

Pet Hate                                              by Andy Clarke                             Ireland

Ham Story                                           by EliskaChytkova                      Czech Rep

In Vino Veritas                 by AnetaZablkovaKyrova                        Czech Rep

95                                       by HardiKeerutaja                                    Estonia

Running Dry                      by DimitraNikolopoulou                          Greece

Eight minutes Deadline       by Petros&ZinaPapadoupoulos              Greece

Rhino Full Throttle              by Erik Schmitt                                       Germany

Warehouse                             by Jakob Weis                                       Germany

Sweet Mosquito                     by Najar & Perrot                                    France

Contretemps                           by Laurent Noël                                      France

Shopping                                 by VladilenVierny                                 France/germany

Photoshopping                        by Mark Davenport                                  UK

A Girl For A Hare                  by Svetlana Razgulyaeva                          Russia

The Finnish Cow                     by Gheorghe Preda                                  Romania

Hazel                                        by Tamer Ruggli                                     Switzerland

The Baumanns                         by Martin Guggisitzerland                       Switzerland

Sweet Rabbit                         by Camiel Schouwenaar                           Netherlands                                  

Rabbitland                               by Ana Nedeljković& Nikola Majdak Jr.      Serbia

Scarf                                           by Ahmad Emad                                    Egypt

Only One Truth                        by Aya Al Adl                                          Egypt

A Left Shoes                             by Sarah Rozik                                        Egypt                    

The Jury:

Vladimir Menshov                 Director                                  Russia

Lise Fayolle                            Producer                                France

Katerina Didaskalou             Actress                                    Greece

Franziska Petri                       Actress                                              Germany

Kadi Lokk                              Festival Director                    Estonia

Jacques Laurent                     Producer                                 Belgium

Tarek El Telmesany                D.O.P                                      Egypt

The New German cinema

Run Lola Run              by Tom Tykwer (1998)

Nowhere in Africa        by Caroline Link (1999)

The State I'm In            by Christian Petzold (2000)

Distant Lights               by Hans-Christian Schmid  (2003)

Good Bye Lenin!          by Wolfgang Becker (2003)

The Edge of Heaven     by Fatih Akin (2004)

The Lives of Others      by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck (2006)

Welcome to Germany   by Yasemin Samdereli (2011)

The Independent Egyptiancinema

The City                                 by Yousry Nasrallah(1999)

Klefty                                     by Mohamed Khan(2003)

Basra                                      by Ahmed Rashwan(2009)

The Winter of Discontent        by Ibrahim Battout(2012)

Chaos,Disorder                        by Nadine Khan(2012)

Coming Forth by Day                         by Hala Lotfy(2012)

Asham                                     by Maggie Morgan(2012)

Rags and Tatters                    by Ahmad Abdallah(2013)

Tribute to the Egyptian actor Nour El Sherif

My Wife and the dog                        by        Said Marzouk(1971)

The Era of HatemZahran       by        Mohamed El Naggar (1988)

Naji Al Ali                             by        Atef El Tayeb(1992)

Blazing Night                          by        Atef El Tayeb ( 1996 )

Tribute to the Russian Director Vladimir Menshov

Moscow does not believe in Tears. (1979)

Love and Pigeons (1984) .

Egyptian Cinema Classics

Something of Fear                 by Hussein Kamal (1968(

The Mummy                            by Shady Abd El Salam ( 1973 )

The necklace and the bracelet by KhairyBeshara (1986(

Mohamed Bayoumy              by Mohamed Kamel El Kaliouby (1992)

Symposium

Monday 20 January 2014

Press Conference :The Great Egyptian Actor Nour ELSherif

Moderated  by the Critic Khaled Mahmoud .

Tuesday 21 January 2014

Meeting aroud the revolution , the cinema and the social changes

With the presence of Filmmakers and Novelist .   

Wednesday 22 January 2014

Meeting with the German filmmakers

Moderated by the Critic Viola Shafik .

Thursday 23 January 2014

Meeting with the Egyptian Independent Cinema’s filmmakers

Moderated by the critic Ramy Abdel Razek .

Friday 24 January 2014

Euro – Egyptian Cooperation in production and distribution

Moderated by Catherine Buresi and Hala Galal .

Saturday 25 January 2014

Master Class: the Russian Director Vladimir Menshov

For Further information please visit www.luxorfilmfest.com