Honoring the artist Farouk Flux at the 47th Cairo International Film Festival

The Cairo International Film Festival announced, on Sunday, that Egyptian artist Farouk Flux will be honored with the “Golden Pyramid for Lifetime Achievement” Award at the opening ceremony of its 47th session, next Wednesday. The honoring of the distinguished Egyptian artist comes, after a busy artistic career that has exceeded 6 decades, in recognition of “his distinguished contributions to cinema, theater and television, and the personalities he presented that left their mark in the memory of the Egyptian and Arab public,” according to a statement issued by the festival.

Flux has been absent from the artistic scene since 2017, as his last two participations were recorded in the series “The Godfather” and “Entering into the Forbidden,” according to the “Cinema” website. During his hosting of the “Nast Al-Kalam” program, with the media Raghida Shalhoub, in 2022, the Egyptian artist explained his absence - meaning - by not offering him “influential” roles by the producers due to “advancing age,” stressing that he would not accept a role that was not “influential” for the sake of Appearance, or because of financial need, especially since his income depends mainly on his pension as an engineer, and not from art.

In its 47th session, the Cairo International Film Festival honors Egyptian director of photography Said Shimi, Egyptian screenwriter Medhat El Adl, Mauritanian director Abdel Rahman Sissako, and Italian director Matteo Garrone, with the “Golden Pyramid Lifetime Achievement Award.” Egyptian artist Aser Yassin will be honored with the “Faten Hamama Award for Excellence,” and the festival also announced a special honor for Lebanese film distributor Antoine Zand, as “one of the most prominent pioneers in film distribution in Egypt and the Arab world.”

This year, the festival celebrates the 50th anniversary of its first session in 1976, and the activities of the 47th session of the Cairo International Film Festival will be held during the period between 11 and 20 November.