From October 14 to 22, 2021, the El Gouna Film Festival (GFF) celebrates its fifth anniversary. Five editions of films, seminars, discussions, exhibitions, concerts and various activities.
Five editions during which the festival has shown that it could be among the big ones, as well by the selected films which are mostly part of the best films of the year and which often have a very good career, with numerous prizes collected at prestigious festivals, such as the Cannes, Berlin or Venice festivals, as by the quality of its other activities celebrating cinema.
It is also in this context that Innishal Al Tamimi, the director of the festival, the Bushra actress, founding member and the director Amir Ramses, artistic director, today inaugurated the exhibition of the famous Polish director Krzysztof Kieślowski, in commemoration of the twenty-fifth anniversary of his death.
This exhibition, which includes 23 posters belonging to the Cinematography Museum in Lodz (Poland), 50 photos of films and filming places, film extracts, an interview with the director, and photos of the director himself, was designed and carried out by the famous landscaper decorator Onsi Abu Seif.
Krzysztof Kieślowski is a Polish director and scriptwriter, born June 27, 1941 in Warsaw where he died on March 13, 1996. Trained at the łódź film school, he produced from 1966 about twenty documentaries describing the Polish society of the time before going in 1976 to fiction. His feature films are part of the cinema of moral concern, a realistic movement of Polish cinema which deals with social questions and addresses complex moral themes. If his first films were characterized by an ascetic form, still close to the documentary genre, his subsequent works benefit from a sophisticated visual treatment.
Kieślowski accesses a large international recognition with the release of the “Decalogue” in 1988. He received prestigious awards including a golden lion at the Venice Mostra, a silver bear for the best director at La Berlinale, a jury prize at the Cannes festival and several Fipresci prizes. The films of his “Three -colored” trilogy also earn him two Oscar nominations in 1995 in the best director and best original scenario categories. (Wikipedia))
According to Amir Ramses, artistic director of the El Gouna Film Festival, this exhibition is a tribute and recognition that the works of Krzysztof Kieślowski are immortal: “Kislowski inspired generations of filmmakers; He has developed a new cinematographic language and taught us that cinema can speak through image, color and music ». The famous artistic director Onsi Abu Seif, for his part, declared that the concept of the scenography of the exhibition is based on the idea of presenting to the public the different stages of the life and career of the director. “” I read an important book on the life and career of Kieślowski and I tried through this exhibition, using different visual tools such as photos and videos, to make visitors travel. The experience of Krzysztof Kieślowski is very rich so a single exhibition cannot be enough. But I am sure that this exhibition and the projections of his films at the festival will give an overview of one of the greatest figures in the history of world cinema ».
Neïla Driss
