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\nEl Gouna Film Festival has revealed the first 10 titles for its ninth edition, set to run Oct. 15-23, in the Red Sea resort town of El Gouna, Egypt.<\/p>\n

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\n\tThe lineup spans work from established auteurs and first-time feature directors, drawing from festivals including Cannes, Berlin, Sundance and Karlovy Vary.<\/p>\n

\n\tAmong the titles is Hamaguchi Ryusuke\u2018s \u201cAll of a Sudden,\u201d a French-Japanese-German-Belgian co-production starring Virginie Efira as a nursing home director in the Parisian suburbs who introduces a humane care method against resistance, and whose life shifts after meeting a terminally ill Japanese playwright played by Okamoto Tao. The film earned a best actress prize for Efira and Okamoto at Cannes.<\/p>\n

\nPawel Pawlikowski, the director behind \u201cIda\u201d and \u201cCold War,\u201d is in the selection with \u201cFatherland,\u201d a German-Polish-Italian-French production starring Sandra H\u00fcller and Hanns Zischler as Erika and Thomas Mann on a road trip through post-war Europe. The film won a shared best director prize at Cannes.<\/p>\n

\n\tAlso in the selection is \u201cAmerican Doctor,\u201d from Poh Si Teng, following three American doctors of different backgrounds who enter Gaza to save lives and find themselves risking everything to expose the truth. Teng previously produced the Oscar-nominated \u201cSt. Louis Superman\u201d and served as an Emmy-winning executive producer on \u201cPatrice: The Movie.\u201d The film premiered at Sundance and won the Amnesty International Award and the Peter Wintonick Audience Award at the Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival.<\/p>\n

\n\tJoaqu\u00edn del Paso\u2019s \u201cThe Garden We Dreamed\u201d follows a Haitian family that settles in a Mexican forest shaped by illegal logging, finding fragile moments of love and resilience. The film screened at the Berlinale and won the Golden Biznaga for best Ibero-American film, along with Silver Biznaga honors for best director and cinematography at the M\u00e1laga International Film Festival.<\/p>\n

\n\tMads Mengel\u2019s feature debut \u201cThe Guest\u201d centers on new parents whose plans to announce their baby\u2019s name are upended when the father\u2019s estranged mother arrives unannounced. The Danish film took the best director prize and a special jury award at Karlovy Vary.<\/p>\n

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\n\tMyrsini Aristidou\u2019s debut feature \u201cHold Onto Me\u201d follows an 11-year-old girl who tracks down and slowly bonds with the estranged father she barely knows. The Cyprus-Denmark-Greece co-production won the audience award in the World Cinema Dramatic category at Sundance.<\/p>\n

\nJuliette Binoche stars in Lance Hammer\u2019s \u201cQueen at Sea,\u201d a U.K.-U.S. production about a family pushed to its breaking point as a mother\u2019s advancing dementia raises the question of who decides what is best for her. The film won the Silver Bear Jury Prize at the Berlinale, along with a Silver Bear for best supporting performance shared by Tom Courtenay and Anna Calder-Marshall.<\/p>\n

\n\tMarkus Schleinzer\u2019s \u201cRose,\u201d Austria\u2019s submission for best international feature at the 2027 Academy Awards, follows a stranger who talks his way into a war-shattered village as its new farmer while concealing an audacious deception. Sandra H\u00fcller won a Silver Bear for best leading performance for the role at the Berlinale.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWho Killed Alex Odeh?,\u201d directed by William Lafi Youmans and Jason Osder, revisits the unsolved bombing that killed Palestinian American community leader Alex Odeh four decades ago, as a journalist reopens the cold case and uncovers buried records. The documentary won the Jury Award for Journalistic Excellence and the Producers Award for Nonfiction at Sundance.<\/p>\n

\n\tRounding out the initial selection is \u0130lker \u00c7atak\u2019s \u201cYellow Letters,\u201d a German-French production in which a celebrated artist couple\u2019s marriage is tested after an incident at their play\u2019s premiere draws the attention of the state. The film won the Golden Bear at the Berlinale.<\/p>\n

\n\tEl Gouna artistic director Andrew Mohsen said: \u201cThese 10 films speak to each other in unexpected ways, through family, identity, and the quiet acts of courage it takes to hold onto both or to pursue the truth. That\u2019s what El Gouna has always been about, bringing stories from all over the world into the same room, connecting audiences and filmmakers.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n\tFurther additions to the program will be revealed in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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