A Press Conference Revealing Details on the Ismailia International Film Festival 2013

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To Be Held Tomorrow at the Opera House's Ebda'a Center

A Press Conference Revealing Details on the Ismailia International Film Festival 2013


The National Egyptian Cinema Center will organize a press conference tomorrow, Thursday May 16th, 2013, at the Opera House's Ebda'a Center at 03:00 pm. The conference will reveal details about the 16thIsmailia International Film Festival for Documentaries and Shorts. Kamal Abdel Aziz, Festival President and Director of the National Egyptian Cinema Center, together with Festival Director, Mohamed Hefzy, will announce all the details related to this year's installment of the Ismailia festival. The Ismaila International Film Festival will run from June 4th to June 9th, and the festival administration has sent out invitations to journalists and various Egyptian and international media outlets to attend the conference.

The event will also witness the announcement of the most distinctive changes and addition to this year's round of the festival, as well as the names of the festival honorees for 2013, the jury members, the opening film, and the most prominent films to screen in the festival.

Launched in 1988, The Ismailia International Film Festival for Documentaries and Shorts is one of the major film festivals in the Arab world, and the first in the region to be exclusively dedicated to documentaries and shorts.