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Postmarks

‘Postmarks’: Cairo Review

Low-key charmer tracks an unlikely romance set in northeast Russia, ‘on the edge of the world’

The New Year That Never Came

Romanian tragicomedy ‘The New Year That Never Came’ scoops best film at Cairo film festival

Further winners included ‘Postmarks’, ‘Malu’ and ‘Spring Came On Laughing’.

Thank You Satan

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

‘Spring Came On Laughing’: Cairo Review

Heightened Cairo-set melodrama features five tales of fracturing female relationships

Passing dreams

‘Passing Dreams’: Cairo Review

Cairo opens with a defiantly upbeat Palestinian road movie about a young boy and his missing pigeon

Cairo Film Festival

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.

Cairo International Film Festival (CIFF) red carpet

Cairo film festival cancels 2023 edition due to Israel-Hamas war

It follows the recent rescheduling of Egypt’s El Gouna Film Festival.

Success - Danis Tanovic

‘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

Yousry Nasrallah to receive Cairo Film Festival honorary award

Egyptian director has made films including Cannes 2012 Competition title ‘After the Battle’.

Riverbed

‘Riverbed’: Cairo Review

A mother and daughter struggle to reconnect in Bassem Breche’s imagery-led feature debut

The Astronaut

‘The Astronaut’: Cairo Review

Nicolas Giraud’s portrait of a French loner sending himself to space fails to get off the ground

19B

‘19B’: Cairo Review

An elderly caretaker tends to a crumbling Cairo villa in Ahmad Abdalla’s engaging third feature

Alam

‘Alam’: Cairo Review

A Palestinian-Israeli teenager struggles to shake off the weight of history in Firas Khoury’s feature debut

Bread And Salt

‘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

‘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

‘Far From The Nile’: Cairo Review

Sherief Elkatsha captures the harmonious sound of The Nile Project, a musical collaborative of 11 African countries

Tinnitus

‘Tinnitus’: Cairo Review

An professional diver does battle with her body in Gregorio Graziosi’s stylish thriller