El Gouna Film Festival has unveiled the first 10 titles for its ninth edition, running 15–23 October in the Egyptian Red Sea resort, with the line-up drawing heavily on prize-winners from this year's Cannes, Berlin, Sundance and Karlovy Vary festivals. The selection blends established auteurs with first-time feature directors, headlined by Hamaguchi Ryusuke's Cannes best actress-winning "All of a Sudden" and Pawel Pawlikowski's "Fatherland", which took a shared best director prize at Cannes.

Hamaguchi's French-Japanese-German-Belgian co-production stars Virginie Efira as a nursing home director whose life changes after meeting a terminally ill playwright played by Okamoto Tao, while Pawlikowski's German-Polish-Italian-French film follows Sandra Hüller and Hanns Zischler as Erika and Thomas Mann on a post-war European road trip. Other titles include Poh Si Teng's Sundance documentary "American Doctor", about US doctors in Gaza; Joaquín del Paso's Berlinale prize-winner "The Garden We Dreamed"; Mads Mengel's Karlovy Vary-honoured debut "The Guest"; Myrsini Aristidou's Sundance audience award-winning "Hold Onto Me"; and Juliette Binoche-starring "Queen at Sea", directed by Lance Hammer, which won a Silver Bear Jury Prize at Berlin.