El Hosseiny says the choice of the festival was not an accident, adding that she and her co-founder wanted to create a decentralisation of art. The Luxor festival features multiple segments, including four competitive ones;Feature filmShort filmAfrican diasporaEgyptian student film competitions – all narrative, documentary and animated films which do not exceed 30 minutes. (“We will honour Mali’s cinema through a special film programme and panels featuring its representatives,” El Hosseiny says. “[Luxor festival] is a melting pot of all African cinematic voices,” El Hosseiny says. But we are also an African country with many threads linking us with the rest of the continent,” El Hosseiny says.
