NAME OF FESTIVAL: Cairo International Film Festival
SINCE: 1976
WHERE: Cairo, Egypt
ABOUT THE FESTIVAL
The Cairo International Film Festival is an annual film festival held in Cairo, Egypt. It was established in 1976 and was the first international film festival held in the Arab world.
Cairo International Film Festival
The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences awarded OSCAR qualifying film festival status to the Cairo International Film Festival.
The 41st edition of the Cairo International Film Festival will open with Martin Scorsese’s ‘The Irishman’ starring Academy Award winners Robert De Niro, Al Pacino and Joe Pesci.
Charlie’s Country
The 36th Cairo International Film Festival taking place November 9 -18, 2014, will feature 6 international films, submitted for the Best Foreign Language Film award at the 2015 Oscars, organized by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. The films include Charlie’s Country (Australia), Eyes of a Thief (Palestine), The Light that Shines Only There (Japan), Rocks in My Pocket (Latvia), Timbuktu (Mauritania) and Little England (Greece).
The Ministry of Culture has announced that it will cancel the Cairo International Film Festival this year due to upcoming elections, Gulf News reported. “The Ministry of Culture has decided to cancel the festival this year, which was due in late November, because of the current preparations for the parliamentary and presidential elections as well as due to the economic situation.” Emad Abu Ghazi, the Minister of Culture, denied that instability in Egypt was behind […]