Cairo 2024

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’.

45th Cairo International Film Festival: The Awards

Nov 22, 2024 | Featured, Cairo 2024, Festivals

The Cairo jury gave their main prize to Romanian director Bogdan Muresanu’s tragicomic Cold War period piece ‘The New Year That Never Came’, but local writer-director Noha Adel earned the most awards and warmest reviews with her bittersweet female-driven ensemble drama ‘Spring Came Laughing’.

Spring Came Laughing

Nov 22, 2024 | Festivals, Cairo 2024

The topic is marriage and the four compulsively watchable stories that make up Noha Adel’s ‘Spring Came Laughing’ nail the shallowness, hypocrisy and suffering of Egyptian middle-class women, caught in a web outdated traditions.

Yousra and Hussein Fahmy receive the inaugural Omar Sharif Award

Nov 21, 2024 | Festivals, Cairo 2024

The new Omar Sharif Award recognizes the growth of the Middle East as a premier filmmaking region.

Ayse

Nov 20, 2024 | Cairo 2024, Festivals

Drawn from his own family background, Turkish director Necmi Sancak’s prize-winning debut feature ‘Ayse’ is a bleak but powerful portrait of a highly stressed woman caring for her disabled brother,