CineGouna Funding 2025: Full Line-Up

Egypt’s El Gouna Film Festival has selected 19 projects for the 2025 edition of CineGouna Funding, including 12 projects in development and seven in post-production.
 
The selected projects, which span narrative, documentary and hybrid formats, will compete for a diverse range of cash and in-kind awards. They will also benefit from a mentoring programme, to develop their pitching skills and film strategies, with guidance from filmmaker Ayman El Amir and Brigid O'Shea, head of the Documentary Association of Europe (DAE). In addition, for films in post-production, editors Heba Othman and Melissa Parry will provide specialised consultations.
 
The jury for the CineGouna Funding awards comprises Spanish producer and former president of the Catalan Film Academy Isona Passola; Egyptian screenwriter and producer Ahmed Amer; and Moroccan producer and founder of Tamayouz Atelier, Lamia Chraibi.
 
El Gouna Film Festival is taking place October 16-24, 2025.

CINEGOUNA FUNDING 2025: PROJECTS IN DEVELOPMENT

FEATURE NARRATIVE：

Animals (Egypt)
Director: Morad Mostafa
Producer: Sawsan Yusuf

Asaa (France)
Director: Valentin Noujaïm
Producer: Manon Messiant

Blue Card (Sudan, Egypt, Saudi Arabia)
Director: Mohammed Alomda
Producer: Amjad Abu Alala

Holy Cow (Morocco)
Director & Producer: Asmae El Moudir

I Am Afraid To Meet You Someday (Egypt)
Director: Khaled Mansour
Producer: Rasha Hosny

Occupational Hazards (Jordan, Palestine)
Director: Bassel Ghandour
Producer: Rula Nasser

Your Turn, 203 (Lebanon, France)
Director: Cynthia Sawma
Producer: Georges Schoucair & Matthew Gledhill

FEATURE DOCUMENTARY：

Besso (Iraq, Denmark)
Director: Muslim Habeeb
Producer: Muna Al-Kadhimi & Tamara Amer

Disappeared (France, Syria, Lebanon)
Director: Anas Zawahri
Producer: Ahmad Alhaj

Four Tales Of Love (Egypt)
Director: Maged Atta
Producer: Omnia Swedan

Gezira, On The Line (Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Egypt)
Director: Rana Matar
Producer: Lama Jamjoom

FEATURE HYBRID：

The Salt Of The South (Tunisia, France, Belgium, Denmark, Qatar)
Director: Rami Jarboui
Producer: Ramzi Laâmouri

CINEGOUNA FUNDING 2025: POST-PRODUCTION

FEATURE NARRATIVE：

Halima (Morocco)
Director & Producer: Yassine El Idrissi

FEATURE DOCUMENTARY：

American Dream: The Return Of Captain Kabonga (Egypt, Saudi Arabia)
Director: Amir El-Shenawy
Producer: Ahmed Abdelsalam

Concrete Land (Jordan, Palestine)
Director: Asmahan Bkerat
Producer: Ban Maraqa

I Am One Of Them (Poland, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Syria)
Director: Nadim Suleiman
Producer: Nadim Suleiman & Kasia Kuczyńska

Let’s Play Soldiers (Yemen, Qatar, Norway, France)
Director: Mariam Al-Dhubhani
Producer: Mohammed Al-Jaberi

The North Wind (Lebanon)
Director: Eliane Raheb
Producer: Cynthia Choucair

FEATURE HYBRID：

Pipes (Lebanon)
Director & Producer: Karim Kassem