Independent Shabab Foundation

The Luxor African Film Festival (LAFF) is one of ISF’s projects. It was the writer Sayed Fouad’s idea, as the African films are almost not screened in Egypt. Furthermore, Luxor hardly has any cultural or artistic events, and was therefore selected to de-centralize cultural or artistic events always oraginzed in Cairo and Alexandria.

Why Luxor City?

Though Luxor is the largest open-air museum in the world it was lacking artistic festivals. Its geographical position - in the very heart of Upper Egypt and hence closer to the rest of the African continent - gives the historic city a unique advantage .

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A PLATFORM FOR A NEW AFRICAN FILM MART TO CONNECT THE AFRICAN FILM TO THE REST OF THE WORLD

ETISAL’s mission is to provide to the needs of young African filmmakers in expressing freely their skills and talents through filmmaking and promote their work globally.

African short films is a “life savior” of young filmmakers (Aged between 18-30 of both genders) who are marginalized in terms of production and distribution. Although young filmmakers rep...

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Le festival de Louxor du film africain participe à la plus grande commémoration du grand cinéaste

Au Cinéclub africain à Hanager

Dans le cadre des activités du Cinéclub africain, organisées par le festival de Louxor du film africain, en collaboration avec le Fonds de développement culturel au Ministère de la Culture, et présidée par le Dr Fathi Abdel Wahab, une célébration est prévue samedi et dimanche (9 et 10 Juin 2018) à 21 heures, pour rendre hommage au grand cinéaste sénégala...