ESSAM ZAKAREA

International jury 2024

Director of Cairo International Film Festival. Former head of Ismailia Film Festival for Documentary and Short Films (2017- 2023) He is an Egyptian film critic, journalist and researcher who has written for several Arabic publications and is the author of ten books about Egyptian and foreign cinema. He has served as a jury member in many local and international film festivals. Career highlights include being editor-in-chief of Nazra magazine, instructor at the film department of the American University in Cairo and lecturer on film at tens of Workshops.