Sunday 22/March/2026 – 12:54 PM
The management of the Aswan International Women’s Film Festival revealed the poster for the tenth session, which will be held from April 20 to 25, bearing the name of the pioneer of Egyptian cinema, artist Aziza Amira, on the occasion of the 125th anniversary of her birth.
The poster for the tenth session of the Aswan International Women’s Film Festival carries visual values closer to realism, a style that greatly characterizes Hisham Ali’s designs.
Through it, a woman appears wearing a dress sculpted from her white space, moving north while wearing a shawl of river water that flowed between her arms, interrupting the vertical axis of the painting to dominate the south of the painting, a south that the designer did not leave to our imaginative or symbolic perceptions of what this south is, but rather defined it definitively when a number of Egyptian palm trees grew from its land and on the banks of its Nile, including a dome or two of the Nubian houses or the shrines of the saints.
On the page of the river flowing from south to north, unlike all the rivers of the world, what confirms that it is the Nile River, while a number of Nile boats sail with their distinctive sails, so we know that we are in southern Egypt, specifically in the city of the Nile and Nubia… Aswan.
The designer wants to tell in his poster part of the stories of the Nile River… and this is the woman who grew it from her arms, the woman who lived on its banks, orienting the future, while holding the festival’s shield in her hand, which represents the statue of Isis, the first woman in Egypt, with the name of the pioneer Aziza Amir. If Isis was the first woman in the history of Egypt, then Aziza Amir is the first woman in Egyptian, Arab and African cinema and one of the pioneers of cinema in the world.
