Zawya Short Film Festival Reveals 2025 Lineup
The festival will be led by three Egyptian jury members: Bassam Murtaza, Heba Yusri and Essam Zakaria.
Downtown Cairo’s Zawya Cinema recently released the lineup for the 9th edition of its Zawya Short Film Festival, which will run from March 12th to the 26th.
The festival is giving away a total prize pool of EGP 90,000 across four awards: the ‘Best Film Award,’ the ‘Best Director Award,’ the ‘Best Jury’ award and the ‘Audience Award’. There will also be a ‘Dashur Workshop Award’, which does not sport a cash prize.
The festival will be led by three Egyptian jury members: Bassam Murtaza, director of several short films and video unit director of Masr El Youm; Heba Yusri, an esteemed Egyptian short film director, who also both wrote and starred in her first award-winning short film ‘Another Love;’ and Essam Zakaria; an Egyptian journalist, lecturer, film critic who wrote for large Arab publications such as ‘Sabah El Kheir’ magazine.
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