THE El Gouna Film Festival (GFF) is half a decade old but nothing it does suggests that it is only a fledgling event. The meticulously curated annual event launched in 2017 is now well on its way to becoming “an important, cosmopolitan hub of culture and cinema,” in the words of entrepreneur Samih Sawiris, founder of the Red Sea resort town of El Gouna.
In 2020, a year that saw many pandemic-induced festival cancellations, the organizers of GFF went ahead with a physical film festival. This year, GFF, held from October 14 to 22, returned rejuvenated but. . .
