Cairo International Film Festival 2022

Victim

Posted by Stephen Dalton | Nov 25, 2022 | Festivals, International Oscars 2024 |

Competing forms of victimhood expose a rotten racist society in Slovak director Michal Blaško’s prize-winning Oscars submission ‘Victim’.

The Family

Posted by Jay Weissberg | 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

Posted by Jay Weissberg | 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.

Alam

Posted by Jay Weissberg | 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.

19B

Posted by Jay Weissberg | Nov 18, 2022 | CAIRO 2022, Festivals |

Ahmad Abdalla’s latest is a handsomely produced, effective drama about a redundant Cairene house guard, the sole resident of a dilapidated mansion, trying to stave off the encroaching collapse of his world.

Tag: Cairo International Film Festival 2022

Victim

The Family

Far from the Nile

Alam

19B