Cairo

Cairo 2024: The Verdict

Nov 23, 2024 | The Festival Verdict, Cairo, Cairo 2024, Featured, Festivals

Returning after last year’s dramatic cancellation, the 45th edition of the long-running Cairo festival had a rich international program but a special focus on strong films from Africa, the Middle East, Palestine and Egypt itself.

Anywhere Anytime

Nov 23, 2024 | Festivals, Cairo, Cairo 2024

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

Nov 19, 2024 | Cairo, Cairo 2024, Festivals

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

Nov 25, 2022 | Cairo, CAIRO 2022, Festivals, Spotlight

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.

Cairo 2022: The Awards

Nov 25, 2022 | Cairo, CAIRO 2022, Festivals

Firas Khoury’s notable feature debut ‘Alam’ about Palestinian teens living in Israel fought off the competition to win Cairo’s main prize.

The Family

Nov 24, 2022 | Cairo, CAIRO 2022, Festivals

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

Nov 23, 2022 | Cairo, CAIRO 2022, Festivals

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

Nov 22, 2022 | Cairo, CAIRO 2022, Festivals

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

Nov 22, 2022 | Cairo, CAIRO 2022, Festivals, Spotlight

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

Nov 22, 2022 | Cairo, CAIRO 2022, Festivals

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

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The Hole in the Fence (Mexico, Poland)
Director: Joaquin del Paso
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Tomorrow (Tunisia)
Director: Dhafer L’Abidine
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Small Body (Italy, France, Slovenia)
Director: Laura Samani
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Aloners (South Korea)
Director: Hong Seong-eun
Award for
A Chiara (Italy, France)
Swamy Rotolo
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Abo Saddam (Egypt)
Mohamed Mamdouh
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107 Mothers (Slovakia)
Ivan Ostrochovsky & Peter Kerekes
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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