Seven El Gouna festival films screen at Zawya in Downtown until 24 October
GFF x Zawya brings seven features and documentaries from this year's El Gouna Film Festival to Cinema Karim, for Cairo audiences who missed the festival.
Zawya is showing seven films from this year's El Gouna Film Festival at Cinema Karim on Emad El Deen Street in Downtown Cairo until Saturday 24 October. GFF x Zawya, now in its ninth edition, is the fourth year of the partnership between the cinema and the festival.
The programme is Paweł Pawlikowski's Fatherland, about the writer Thomas Mann during the Cold War; Markus Schleinzer's Rose, set in the 17th century; Myrsini Aristidou's Hold Onto Me, about an 11-year-old girl's summer in Greece; Karim Kassem's Pipes, about a retired water authority worker called back to find a missing pipe; and three documentaries: Poh Si Teng's American Doctor, Pieter-Jan De Pue's Mariinka and Ahmed Hassouna's Al Mowaten Osama. All seven screen with English subtitles.
Screening times and tickets are on each film's page at zawyacinema.com, and the cinema answers on 01014331779. Zawya has not published the ticket price on the programme page, so check it when you book.