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All Cairo articles
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NewsMohamed Tarek appointed artistic director of Cairo International Film Festival
The film critic and programmer replaces Essam Zakaria.
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Reviews‘Postmarks’: Cairo Review
Low-key charmer tracks an unlikely romance set in northeast Russia, ‘on the edge of the world’
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NewsRomanian tragicomedy ‘The New Year That Never Came’ scoops best film at Cairo film festival
Further winners included ‘Postmarks’, ‘Malu’ and ‘Spring Came On Laughing’.
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NewsCairo Film Connection’s funding platform spotlights 18 projects by Arab filmmakers
Rodrigo Brum, director of the Cairo Film Festival’s funding platform, on the selected projects for its 10th anniversary edition.
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Reviews‘Spring Came On Laughing’: Cairo Review
Heightened Cairo-set melodrama features five tales of fracturing female relationships
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Reviews‘Passing Dreams’: Cairo Review
Cairo opens with a defiantly upbeat Palestinian road movie about a young boy and his missing pigeon
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FeaturesCairo film festival returns with fresh leadership and a renewed vision after 2023 cancellation
In October 2023, less than a month before the opening of the 45th edition, the festival and market were cancelled following the outbreak of the Israel-Gaza conflict.
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NewsWorld premiere of ‘Passing Dreams’ to open Cairo International Film Festival; full line-up revealed
The festival will feature a programme of Palestinian cinema.
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NewsCairo film festival cancels 2023 edition due to Israel-Hamas war
It follows the recent rescheduling of Egypt’s El Gouna Film Festival.
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News‘No Man’s Land’ director Danis Tanović to preside over Cairo jury
The director won the Oscar for best international feature in 2001 with ‘No Man’s Land’
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NewsYousry Nasrallah to receive Cairo Film Festival honorary award
Egyptian director has made films including Cannes 2012 Competition title ‘After the Battle’.
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NewsAmjad Al Rasheed’s ‘Inshallah A Boy’ among Cairo Film Connection winners
The dark comedy won two $10,000 prizes.
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Reviews‘Riverbed’: Cairo Review
A mother and daughter struggle to reconnect in Bassem Breche’s imagery-led feature debut
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Reviews‘The Astronaut’: Cairo Review
Nicolas Giraud’s portrait of a French loner sending himself to space fails to get off the ground
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Reviews‘19B’: Cairo Review
An elderly caretaker tends to a crumbling Cairo villa in Ahmad Abdalla’s engaging third feature
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Reviews‘Alam’: Cairo Review
A Palestinian-Israeli teenager struggles to shake off the weight of history in Firas Khoury’s feature debut
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Reviews‘Bread And Salt’: Cairo Review
Damian Kocur’s mature and thought-provoking debut sees a talented pianist return to the pressure cooker of his small home town
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Reviews‘I Don’t Want To Be Dust’: Cairo Review
An older woman confronts the end of the world in Ivan Lowenberg’s second feature
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Reviews‘Far From The Nile’: Cairo Review
Sherief Elkatsha captures the harmonious sound of The Nile Project, a musical collaborative of 11 African countries
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Reviews‘Tinnitus’: Cairo Review
An professional diver does battle with her body in Gregorio Graziosi’s stylish thriller