CAIRO - 25 September 2021: Alexandria Film Festival for Mediterranean Countries will kick off on September 25. The management of the Alexandria Film Festival for Mediterranean Countries, previously announced the launch of a book honoring the artist Khaled El-Sawy, entitled “Khaled El-Sawy.. Faces and Margins”, written by critic Nahid Salah, and it deals with an analytical account of the artist’s biography in which he reveals his roots Family and social and how his family, rooted in the national struggle from Alexandria to Upper Egypt to Al-Zahir neighborhood, downtown and Heliopolis, formed his artistic composition. This prominent feature in his human history made him an artist on more than one level, a writer, a poet, a director, even a musician, and an actor influenced by his reality. He plays his roles knowing the boundary between the artistic personality and his real personality. While the author of the book said that she discovered in the book more than Khaled and more than one story, rich in data and facts that reveal that his life is impossible to tell in one narrative, and it is difficult to ignore the margins in it, given that he is passionate about the margins; Some of them determine the angle of view of the hollow and its ramifications, and some of them capture the faces that help him, whether in his representative project or his clashes with life.
