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Luxor African Film Festival (LAFF) launches the Application Form

for the 15th edition to be held from March 30 to April 5, 2026

Luxor African Film Festival Launches Film Submission Form for its 15th Edition

Festival runs from March 30 to April 5, 2026

A new edition of LAFF with celebrated star Mahmoud Hemida as Honorary President

Screenwriter Sayed Fouad, founder and president of the Luxor African Film Festival (LAFF), announced the launch of the film submission form for the festival’s four main competitions:

·        Long Films Competition (Narrative, Documentary, and Animation) – for films over 60 minutes.

·        Short Films Competition (Narrative, Documentary, and Animation) – both of these competitions are open exclusively to African directors.

·        Diaspora Films Competition (Narrative or Documentary Long Films) – for African filmmakers residing outside the continent, making films about Africa from a global perspective.

·        Youth Films Competition – for young filmmakers from the governorates of Qena and Luxor.

Azza El Hosseiny, founder and director of LAFF, said:
"Several months before the festival, we will organize a workshop dedicated to those interested in making short films with no budget, targeting youth from Luxor and Qena. The aim is to develop their skills and give them the opportunity to become part of the Egyptian and African cinematic landscape. This initiative is not limited to offering film workshops; it also includes opening submissions for a special film competition dedicated to Luxor and Qena, with members of the jury coming from these two governorates themselves."

She added: "The festival had previously announced that the upcoming 15th edition will honor the late filmmaker Youssef Chahine and his cinematic works on the centennial of his birth, under the title: ‘Youssef Chahine… An Egyptian Story.’"

The festival management also announced that the 15th edition will take place from March 30 to April 5, 2026, in Luxor, southern Egypt. Film submissions will open on August 20, 2025, and close on November 25, 2025, via the festival’s official website. All films must have been produced in 2025 and must not have been previously screened in Egypt.

The honorary president of the upcoming edition is acclaimed Egyptian actor Mahmoud Hemida. The festival is organized by the Independent Shabab Foundation for Support and Development, a non-profit civil organization, in partnership with the Egyptian Ministries of Culture, Tourism and Antiquities, Youth and Sports, and Foreign Affairs, in cooperation with Luxor Governorate, and under the patronage of the Egyptian Film Syndicate, the National Bank of Egypt, Misr International Films, and the Kemet Boutros Ghali Foundation for Peace and Knowledge.