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Cairo 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.
‘Spring Came On Laughing’: Cairo Review
Heightened Cairo-set melodrama features five tales of fracturing female relationships
‘Passing Dreams’: Cairo Review
Cairo opens with a defiantly upbeat Palestinian road movie about a young boy and his missing pigeon
Cairo 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.
World premiere of ‘Passing Dreams’ to open Cairo International Film Festival; full line-up revealed
The festival will feature a programme of Palestinian cinema.
Cairo film festival cancels 2023 edition due to Israel-Hamas war
It follows the recent rescheduling of Egypt’s El Gouna Film Festival.
‘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’
Yousry Nasrallah to receive Cairo Film Festival honorary award
Egyptian director has made films including Cannes 2012 Competition title ‘After the Battle’.
Amjad Al Rasheed’s ‘Inshallah A Boy’ among Cairo Film Connection winners
The dark comedy won two $10,000 prizes.
‘Riverbed’: Cairo Review
A mother and daughter struggle to reconnect in Bassem Breche’s imagery-led feature debut
‘The Astronaut’: Cairo Review
Nicolas Giraud’s portrait of a French loner sending himself to space fails to get off the ground
‘19B’: Cairo Review
An elderly caretaker tends to a crumbling Cairo villa in Ahmad Abdalla’s engaging third feature
‘Alam’: Cairo Review
A Palestinian-Israeli teenager struggles to shake off the weight of history in Firas Khoury’s feature debut
‘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
‘I Don’t Want To Be Dust’: Cairo Review
An older woman confronts the end of the world in Ivan Lowenberg’s second feature
‘Far From The Nile’: Cairo Review
Sherief Elkatsha captures the harmonious sound of The Nile Project, a musical collaborative of 11 African countries
‘Tinnitus’: Cairo Review
An professional diver does battle with her body in Gregorio Graziosi’s stylish thriller
‘The Fabelmans’ to open Cairo film festival; full line-up revealed
The Egyptian festival runs November 13-22.
Naomi Kawase to lead Cairo jury
The festival runs November 13-22.
Bela Tarr to receive Cairo film festival lifetime honour
Hungarian auteur will also mentor young Egyptian filmmakers at the festival.
