Venice Film Fest to pay homage to Chahine
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This year's Venice Film Festival will be dedicated to Egyptian director Youssef Chahine, who died on July 27 aged 82.
Chahine, whose crime drama Chaos screened in competition in Venice last year, was co-winner of the festival's UNESCO Award in 2002 for his work on the controversial film 11'09'01 - September 11.
It is the second major homage to Chahine since his death.
The just-completed Locarno Film Festival also paid tribute to the director, with a Piazza Grande screening of his historical romance Destiny, which had first screened at the same venue in 1997.
In Venice, the tribute film will be Cairo Station, a 1958 classic that Chahine starred in and directed.
The film will screen on August 31 at midnight (local time).
The 65th edition of the Venice Film Festival is scheduled for August 27-September 6.
- Reuters
