{"id":6750,"date":"2019-10-13T19:15:30","date_gmt":"2019-10-13T17:15:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/insight-egypt.com\/?p=6750"},"modified":"2019-10-13T19:15:30","modified_gmt":"2019-10-13T17:15:30","slug":"farrah-el-dibany-2-2-2-2-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/insight-egypt.com\/?p=6750","title":{"rendered":"Eduardo Guillot"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of Spain’s most important festivals is going to take place soon in Valencia. Under the title of “Mostra de Valencia”, from the 24th<\/sup> of October t the third of November, the 34th<\/sup> event’s edition is going to be unveiling the marvels of the Mediterranean countries’ cinema. What makes this year’s edition special is the cycle dedicated to the work of the Egyptian female filmmakers, including Amal Ramsis, Ayten Amin, Hala Khalil,Kamla Abu Zekri, Sandra Nashaat, Hala Lotfy, Mariam Abu Owf, and Nadin Khan. On this occasion (In) Sight Magazine interviewed the festival’s artistic director Eduardo Guillot.<\/em><\/p>\n

Could you give us a brief about the festival?<\/strong><\/p>\n

The festival’s first edition took place in 1980 and its theme was about the films of the Mediterranean countries. If we calculate the period between 1980 and 2019, we will find that during some years the event was not held, this happened due to cultural reasons. In other words, the content presented was becoming unattractive. So, the Valencia’s Municipal formed a team to resume the festival’s events, and it took place in 2018.<\/p>\n

Why did the festival dedicate a cycle for the Egyptian cinema? <\/strong><\/p>\n

One of our priorities is presenting the Mediterranean two shores’ cinematographic culture, bearing in mind that the Arab cinema, especially the Egyptian one, has a lot to offer. Last year, for example, there was a cycle dedicated to the French cinema (representing the Mediterranean’s northern shore), and another for the Palestinian one (southern shore). This year, we decided to devote a cycle to the fifties and sixties’ Italian classic comedy (northern shore). Regarding the 2019’s cycle representing the southern shore that comprises some of the Arab countries, we saw that the Egyptian cinema has a notable industrial power. Thus, we selected Egypt as the cycle’s protagonist.<\/p>\n

Why was the Egyptian cycle’s theme devoted specifically to the female filmmakers?<\/strong><\/p>\n

We noticed that the works of the Egyptian female filmmakers are characterized by their depth and diversity. Also they enjoy a strong presence in several international film festivals. What caught my attention was the variety of the proposals presented by the filmmakers, which included: Hala Khalil’s film “Nawara” that narrates the daily life of an Egyptian woman during certain circumstances, gives us the chance to understand the Egyptian female character; Sandra Nashaat’s work that saw a high turnout across the Egyptian public; and Aiten Amin’s film “Villa 69” that provides a symbolic overview of Egypt throughout the recent years through the film’s protagonist. I would like to highlight that the only documentary of the cycle, “You Come from Far Away” for Amal Ramsis, links Spain with the Arab world, so Spain is a perfect place for screening such a film.<\/p>\n

Could you mention some of the countries participating in this edition? <\/strong><\/p>\n

They include: France, Italy, Greece, Turkey, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Algeria, Palestine Egypt, Tunisia Kosovo, and Albania.\u00a0I would like to add that when the festival was first celebrated Yugoslavia was amongst the Mediterranean countries, so we still welcome the participation of the former Yugoslavian countries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The opera singer Farrah El Dibany is the first Egyptian to win the Prix Lyrique de l\u2019AROP, which is the best opera singer award awarded by the Paris Opera house. Born in Alexandria, Egypt, El Dibany joined the Arts Centre of the Library of Alexandria in 2005.<\/p>\n

Five years later, she attended the Hanns-Eisler Academy of Music in Berlin. In 2016, she joined the Paris Opera troupe, becoming the first Egyptian national to ever join the prestigious academy. .The young singer won a number of other awards, including a prize at the 2017 Kammeroper Schloss Rheinsberg Festival and the Wagner Stiftung Prize in 2018. Now, the Egyptian mezzo-soprano is a jury member for the German music competition \u2018Jugend Musiziert,\u2019 for the national round of the Eastern Mediterranean region.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6751,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":0,"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/insight-egypt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6750"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/insight-egypt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/insight-egypt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insight-egypt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insight-egypt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6750"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/insight-egypt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6752,"href":"https:\/\/insight-egypt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6750\/revisions\/6752"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insight-egypt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/insight-egypt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insight-egypt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insight-egypt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}