79 films and 45 countries compete for awards.. and honoring Sawsan Badr, Dorra and Moussa Touré
The VS-FILM Festival for Very Short Films will kick off at 8 pm today, Sunday, November 3rd, in Ain Sokhna, in the presence of Major General Tarek Hamed El Shazly, Governor of Suez, and many Egyptian, Arab and foreign film stars and makers.
The opening ceremony will witness honoring the stars Dorra, Sawsan Badr and Senegalese director Moussa Touré
During the ceremony, the festival will pay tribute to the spirit of the late artist Hassan Youssef and the late artist Mustafa Fahmy and will screen a documentary film about their artistic career
The ceremony will include a group of segments, including a segment for the artist Rami El Tanbary and a video clip for the artist Elham Shaheen, the honorary president of the festival, who is currently in America, welcoming the guests from the stars and artists. At the end of the ceremony, the Yemeni film Made in Hadhramaut and the Turkish film Al Jazeera will be screened, each lasting 5 minutes.
Dr. Osama Abu Nar, the festival president, said that the festival’s events and activities will begin directly on the second day, where a symposium will be held at 11 am next Monday to honor the artist Dora, followed by a symposium at 12 pm for the great artist Sawsan Badr, and then at 1:30 pm, the screenings of the festival’s 5- and 10-minute film competitions will begin, in the presence of the jury headed by the great director Moussa Touré. He stated that the main symposium of the festival will be attended by a number of senior filmmakers and will bear the title of “Very Short Films between the Screen and Electronic Platforms”. For his part, Mr. Ziad Basmir, Vice President of the Festival, revealed that the number of films in the festival’s two competitions reached 79 films from 45 Arab and foreign countries. He said: In the 5-minute competition, the number of films reached about 53 films, including 18 animation, 8 documentary and 27 narrative films, while the number of films in the 10-minute competition reached 26 films, including 5 animation, 2 documentary and 19 narrative films. He added: The opening Yemeni documentary film, Made in Hadramout, directed by Mujahid Asal, Fouad Balajam and Muhammad Basmir, sheds light on the traditional craft of making hajoul in Hadramout. The second opening film, Turkish Al-Jazeera, directed by Mahmoud Tash, tells the story of a young girl living in a dry village and her family thinking about leaving her if the thirst continues. It is noteworthy that the festival continues until November 7 and includes a number of symposiums and master classes on very short films.
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