Saturday 18/October/2025 – 12:52 PM
Engineer Naguib Sawiris spoke about the El Gouna Film Festival, explaining that the festival has become a platform for the film industry, stressing that the festival does not bring him financial returns, and that he organizes it because of his great love and passion for the film industry.
Naguib Sawiris said, in his meeting with media personality Moufida Shiha: There are many films that participated in the El Gouna Film Festival and received awards before they came to us, or came to us and then received prizes. Every year this happens and the demand for the festival increases and the quality of the participants increases. El Gouna Festival has become like a platform for the film industry. Itself, in constant motion and the real makers are here.
Naguib Sawiris added: The issue is big and very expensive, and for us there is no return. I am doing the festival because I love cinema. The money is not divided because who can do something like El Gouna again? Competition is good, but when someone tells me to compete with El Gouna, it becomes difficult.
Naguib Sawiris at the opening of El Gouna Film Festival: We have the right to be happy about the end of the war in Gaza
On the other hand, engineer Naguib Sawiris expressed his great happiness and pride in ending the war in Gaza, stressing that last year the administration of the El Gouna Film Festival presented activities while in a state of great sadness due to the events in Palestine. He said in his speech during the opening of the activities of the eighth session of the El Gouna Film Festival: We have the right to be happy this year. Last year, the festival was held and we were sad because of what is happening in Gaza, but that is our right. We are happy because the war is over. The news is all good and we won the World Cup and our economy is going well. Whoever is upset will be sad. I hope the joy will continue with the El Gouna Festival.
