{"id":279073,"date":"2020-08-24T14:18:35","date_gmt":"2020-08-24T17:18:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/?p=279073"},"modified":"2020-08-24T14:18:35","modified_gmt":"2020-08-24T17:18:35","slug":"egyptian-film-festival-extended","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/egyptian-film-festival-extended\/","title":{"rendered":"Egyptian film festival extended"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>S\u00e3o Paulo \u2013 The 2<sup>nd<\/sup> Contemporary Egyptian Film Festival, slated to run from July 29 to August 23, has been extended by audience request until next Sunday, August 30, organizers said. The festival is hosted by the Ministry of Tourism and Banco do Brasil, via Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, with curation from Amro Saad of Orientse Produ\u00e7\u00f5es.<\/p>\n<p>The festival featured 24 free movies online. <em>The Blue Elephant 1<\/em> and <em>The Blue Elephant 2<\/em> (<em>pictured above<\/em>) will be featured again. The horror films were all-time box office hits in Egypt. The films will be available for 24 hours starting 5 pm on the date of showing, as per viewers\u2019 request.<\/p>\n<p>Also featured are <em>Jeanne d\u2019Arc<\/em>, a documentary of the experiences of Egyptian women since the January 2011 revolution; <em>Coming Forth By Day<\/em>, a portrayal of the lives two women who tend to an ill relative; <em>Villa 69<\/em>, a dramatic comedy; <em>Photocopy<\/em>, one of the films that got the most audience acclaim in the festival so far; and <em>The Gate of Departure<\/em>, a convention-defying visual experience. The festival also includes <em>Messages from the Sea<\/em>, \u00a0Decor, <em>Out of the Ordinary<\/em>, <em>Mawlana<\/em> and <em>Withered Green<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The films are available <a href=\"https:\/\/www.orientse.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Translated by Gabriel Pomerancblum<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"credits-overlay\" data-target=\".wp-image-279069\">Press Release<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2nd Contemporary Egyptian Film Festival from Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil will continue until next Sunday (30), featuring horror flicks The Blue Elephant 1 and 2, which were box office hits in Egypt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2316,"featured_media":279069,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[114],"tags":[9803,9535,4695,3838,1827],"class_list":{"0":"post-279073","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-egypt-en","9":"tag-cinema-en","10":"tag-egyptian","11":"tag-film","12":"tag-movie"},"wps_subtitle":"The 2nd Contemporary Egyptian Film Festival from Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil will continue until next Sunday (30), featuring horror flicks The Blue Elephant 1 and 2, which were box office hits in Egypt. ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2316"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279073\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/279069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}