El Gouna Film Festival Opens Thursday for Nine Days, With Joanna Hogg Chairing the Jury
El Gouna's film festival returns for a ninth edition running Thursday 15 October to 23 October, with British director Joanna Hogg presiding over the jury and giving a masterclass called "Life Into Film". The reporting so far gives no screening programme, venues or ticket details.
14 October 2026
The ninth edition of the El Gouna Film Festival opens on Thursday 15 October and runs to 23 October, putting nine days of festival screenings and events in the Red Sea town.
Ahram Online reported on Wednesday that the ninth edition kicks off on 15 October. The film trade title Variety, reporting the same day, gives the run as 15 to 23 October.
Who is chairing the jury
British director Joanna Hogg will preside over the festival jury, Variety reported on 14 October. Hogg made "The Souvenir" and "The Eternal Daughter", and Variety describes her as one of the UK's leading auteurs. The other members of the jury panel are not named in the portion of the report available to us.
Hogg will also give a masterclass during the festival titled "Life Into Film". The report gives no date, time or venue for it.
What the reporting does not give
Neither report sets out the screening programme, which venues in El Gouna are being used, ticket prices or how to attend, and we have not seen the festival's own programme. Those details have to come from the organisers.