After winning the Best Actress Award for the movie “Curfew”, actress Elham Shaheen said: “All thanks to the Film Association and Director of Photography Mahmoud Abdel Samie, the festival’s president, and my first award was for the movie “Days of Rage”.
Ilham Shaheen flirted with the artist Hussein Fahmy, the guest of honor of the festival, saying: “The best thing is that I receive the award from this moon man.
Ilham Shaheen added: “The film family does not know how to thank them all. I am proud of the film and of all the work team in front of the camera and those who saw it, because they were all tired and the outside was very difficult because it was the time of the curfew and we were very tired, but today’s result is a need to rejoice.”
The jury for the 47th and 48th sessions was headed by screenwriter Bashir Al-Deek, with the membership of critic Osama Abdel-Fattah, journalist writer and film critic Amal Othman, artist Bushra, director Tamer Mohsen, critic Ramy El-Metwally, director Adel Al-Aasar, producer Farouk Abdel-Khaleq, film critic Magdy El-Tayeb, director of cinematography Dr. Mohsen Ahmed and director Filmmaker Mohamed Abu Seif and Dr. Walid Seif, writer and film critic, and head of the cinema department at the Higher Institute of Art Criticism.
The annual Film Society Festival is held under the auspices of the Ministry of Culture and in cooperation with the Syndicate of Film Professions and the Cultural Development Fund. The members of the association choose the films in which they participate from among the films shown during the previous year of holding the festival, and it is the only festival whose management selects films and the film owners did not apply to participate in the festival. All year round.