Egypt’s Marianne Khoury to serve as Feature Documentary Competition Jury Member at El Gouna Film Festival

CAIRO - 20 October 2020: Egypt’s Marianne Khoury will serve as Feature Documentary Competition Jury Member at El Gouna Film Festival.

Khoury is a distinguished Egyptian filmmaker.

She studied political science and economics at AUC, and then finished a master’s in economics at Oxford University.

Almost a decade in the making, the details of Khoury’s powerful documentary Let’s Talk pull you inside the life of her cinematic family, leaving viewers with the poignant feeling of living with its members, being part of their clan.

By the time the closing credits start to roll, it’s easy to imagine the characters are your relatives, but you’ll be walking away recalling your own family memories. 

Let’s Talk is a unique visual and humane insight into the lives of four women from four different generations in the family of the late director Youssef Chahine, Khoury’s uncle. 

The award-winning director also manages to draw the link between cinema and life, by approaching the topic through a conversation between herself as a cinematic mother and her daughter Sara, who is studying filmmaking in Cuba. 

They each explore the difficulties and pleasures of life through a series of archive footage that featuring both members of the family as they appear in Chahine’s autobiographical films and the family’s ladies in real life.