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The third Cairo Human Rights Film Festival closes tomorrow
December 7, 2010
The third Cairo Human Rights Film Festival closes tomorrow
The third Cairo Human Rights Film Festival, which kicked off last Saturday at Sawy Culture Wheel, ends tomorrow with a…
Festival Films: France’s ‘Copacabana’
December 7, 2010
Festival Films: France’s ‘Copacabana’
Renowned French actress Isabelle Huppert plays Babou in Marc Fitoussi’s latest feature comedy, “Copacabana,” the only French production entered in…
Festival Films: Tunisia’s ‘Late December’
December 7, 2010
Festival Films: Tunisia’s ‘Late December’
Screened in the Arab Competition of the 34th edition of Cairo Festival, “Late December” is one of only a few…
The Arab Shorts 2010: Independent Short Films and Media Art Festival
December 7, 2010
The Arab Shorts 2010: Independent Short Films and Media Art Festival
The Arab Shorts 2010: Independent Short Films and Media Art Festival opened last Saturday at the Goethe Institute in Cairo…
Women Entrepreneurs in Action: Tasmimat design
December 7, 2010
Women Entrepreneurs in Action: Tasmimat design
What makes Jenan Azmi unique is her sense of her surroundings. Azmi is a young architect who opened her own…
Festival Films, critic’s pick: Egypt’s ‘Lust’
December 6, 2010
Festival Films, critic’s pick: Egypt’s ‘Lust’
“Al-Shouq” (Lust) is the latest addition to a relatively new trend in Egyptian cinema: movies that realistically follow the lives…
Festival Films, critic’s pick: Egypt’s ‘Microphone’
December 6, 2010
Festival Films, critic’s pick: Egypt’s ‘Microphone’
In "Heliopolis," Ahmad Abdalla’s fiction debut, a seminal scene depicts a couple gazing at each other for a moment in…
Festival Films: Iraq’s ‘The Quarter of Scarecrows’
December 6, 2010
Festival Films: Iraq’s ‘The Quarter of Scarecrows’
The ominous, low grumble of a bomber, slowly and methodically patrolling the vast skies above, ushers in the Iraqi soldier’s…
Festival Talks: What is African cinema?
December 6, 2010
Festival Talks: What is African cinema?
“This is a symposium of love, a symposium from the heart,” Soheir Abdel Kader, Vice President of the 34th Cairo…
Festival Films: Hungary’s “So Much For Justice!”
December 6, 2010
Festival Films: Hungary’s “So Much For Justice!”
It’s a shame that the Cairo International Film Festival doesn’t give out an award for Most Annoying Film—“So Much for…