{"id":1254,"date":"2021-01-13T10:28:53","date_gmt":"2021-01-13T10:28:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/redseafilmfest.com\/?p=1254"},"modified":"2021-01-13T10:30:55","modified_gmt":"2021-01-13T10:30:55","slug":"red-sea-film-festival-foundation-restores-al-ikhtiyar-the-choice-by-legendary-egyptian-filmmaker-youssef-chahine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redseafilmfest.com\/en\/red-sea-film-festival-foundation-restores-al-ikhtiyar-the-choice-by-legendary-egyptian-filmmaker-youssef-chahine\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Sea Film Festival Foundation Restores \u201cAl-Ikhtiyar\u201d (\u201cThe Choice\u201d) by legendary Egyptian filmmaker Youssef Chahine"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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26 February 2020, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia |\u00a0<\/span><\/b>The Red Sea Film Festival Foundation has restored Egyptian filmmaker Youssef Chahine\u2019s masterpiece \u201cAl-Ikhtiyar\u201d (The Choice). The murder mystery will screen in the Festival\u2019s Retrospective and Classics section. The event marks the first big screen projection of the legendary director\u2019s work in Saudi Arabia.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

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Co-scripted by author Naguib Mahfouz, this murder mystery is a deep dive into the human psyche, exploring the social conscience of Egypt in light of the Six-Day War. In it, a body turns up with a photograph in its pocket. The corpse is the twin brother of a famous author and social climber and, from that moment on, the writer\u2019s life takes a drastically different course.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

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The film stars the\u00a0<\/span>“Cinderella of Egyptian cinema” and one of the most influential actresses in the Middle East and the Arab world,\u00a0<\/span>Souad Hosni alongside the brilliant Izzat Al-Alayli, Hoda Sultan, Mahmoud Al-Meliguy, and more.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

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The restoration was possible thanks to a unique collaboration between the\u00a0<\/span>Festival<\/span>\u00a0and the Egyptian Ministry of Culture.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

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The screening, which will be attended by the Director\u2019s family, Gaby, Ramzy, and Marianne Khory, is a central pillar in the Festival\u2019s 15-strong Retrospectives & Classics program and is one of 10 films restored by the Red Sea Film Festival Foundation.\u00a0<\/span>Festival Director Mahmoud Sabbagh commented:\u00a0<\/span>\u201cIt is hugely significant to screen Youssef Chahine film in Saudi Arabia, especially at such a historic moment. It is an honor to connect the Red Sea Film Festival Foundation with the heritage of the late master\u2019s work, and to have the opportunity to restore this seminal work to its full glory,\u00a0<\/span>allowing a new generation to encounter one of the greatest films from the Arab canon.<\/span>\u201d<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

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Red Sea Film\u00a0<\/span>Festival<\/span>\u00a0Foundation has also<\/span>\u00a0restored two rare films by late Saudi photographer\u00a0Safouh\u00a0Naamani, which will screen at the Festival. The two works from the pioneer of film and photography inside the Kingdom document the urban and social history of Saudi Arabia, with a focus on Mecca and Jeddah, they are the restored version of \u201cThe Pilgrimage to Mecca\u201d (1963), and a special short entitled \u201cJeddah Between 1954\u20131968,\u201d which was developed and restored from 16 mm film, to create a panorama of the city.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

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Furthermore in the RETROSPECTIVES section, the Foundation has restored nine key works of by Egyptian neorealist director Khairy Beshara, which will premiere as part of a full retrospective of Beshara\u2019s work.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

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The Retrospectives and Classics program is specially curated to give local and international audiences the opportunity to encounter works that have shaped collective memory.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

26 February 2020, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia |\u00a0The Red Sea Film Festival Foundation has restored Egyptian filmmaker Youssef Chahine\u2019s masterpiece \u201cAl-Ikhtiyar\u201d (The Choice). The murder mystery will screen in the Festival\u2019s Retrospective and Classics section. The event marks the first big screen projection of the legendary director\u2019s work in Saudi Arabia. Co-scripted by author Naguib Mahfouz, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":148,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-press-releases"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redseafilmfest.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redseafilmfest.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redseafilmfest.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redseafilmfest.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redseafilmfest.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1254"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/redseafilmfest.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1261,"href":"https:\/\/redseafilmfest.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1254\/revisions\/1261"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redseafilmfest.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redseafilmfest.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redseafilmfest.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redseafilmfest.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}