MARIANNE KHOURY

Jury Member

Marianne Khoury gravitated towards cinema after graduating with a degree in economics from Cairo and Oxford Universities. She has produced and co-produced around 30 feature films and documentaries that won awards at regional and international festivals. Khoury was instrumental in introducing the 1st edition of the Panorama of the European Film in 2004. Her latest initiative, the Dahshur Workshops, is dedicated to the mentoring of emerging Egyptian and Arab talent and the development of their films. Khoury’s latest documentary, Let’s Talk (2019), was selected to take part in the 32nd edition of the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA), and won the Audience Award at the 41st Cairo International Film Festival. For more than three decades, Khoury also closely collaborated with iconic filmmaker Youssef Chahine.

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