Cairo


Anywhere Anytime

Anywhere Anytime

Director Milad Tshangir’s impressive debut feature ‘Anywhere Anytime’ puts a contemporary illegal-immigrant spin on Vittorio De Sica’s beloved Italian neorealist classic ‘Bicycle Thieves’.

The Witness

The Witness

Made in collaboration with feted dissident director Jafar Panahi, Nader Saeivar’s ‘The Witness’ is a muted but quietly furious protest drama about murder and misogyny in contemporary Iran,

Riverbed

Riverbed

Lebanese actress Carole Abboud brings a sense of wistful loneliness to the role of an independent woman estranged from her adult daughter in Bassem Breche’s sketch-like feature debut.

The Family

The Family

The toxic privilege of Algeria’s ministerial elite is the target of Merzak Allouache’s fitfully successful mix of class satire and political thriller.

Far from the Nile

Far from the Nile

Cairo awarded its best documentary prize to this broadly appealing fly-on-the-wall documentary about a group of musicians from countries bordering the Nile who go on a demanding hundred-day-tour of the U.S.

The Nightsiren

The Nightsiren

A past tragedy haunts the Slovak woodlands in this eerie mystery-horror in which a woman labelled a witch by villagers reclaims her power.

Alam

Alam

Writer-director Firas Khoury refreshingly normalizes the lives of a group of Palestinian teens in Israel and then adds a political overlay in this notable debut that deserves more attention than accorded in Toronto.

Light Upon Light

Light Upon Light

Danish director and anthropologist Christian Suhr’s feature documentary offers a respectful yet compelling peek into the surprisingly diverse communities of Sufi worshippers within the Islamic tradition of Egypt.

Awards Corner

Cairo

  • for
    The Hole in the Fence (Mexico, Poland)
    Director: Joaquin del Paso
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    Tomorrow (Tunisia)
    Director: Dhafer L’Abidine
  • for
    Small Body (Italy, France, Slovenia)
    Director: Laura Samani
  • for
    Aloners (South Korea)
    Director: Hong Seong-eun
  • Award for
    A Chiara (Italy, France)
    Swamy Rotolo
  • Award for
    Abo Saddam (Egypt)
    Mohamed Mamdouh
  • for
    107 Mothers (Slovakia)
    Ivan Ostrochovsky & Peter Kerekes
  • Award for
    They Carry Death (Spain, Colombia)
    José Alayon
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    Memory Box (Lebanon, France, Canada, Qatar)
    Joana Hadjithomas & Khalil Joreige
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    The Stranger (Palestine)
    Director: Ameer Fakher Eldin