Returning as the largest showcase of cinematic art in the Arab world, the Cairo International Film Festival offers a large volume of foreign films and a selective programme of parallel activities this year. From 27 November to 6 December, the Cairo Opera House will act as the home of the 35th Cairo International Film Festival. Screenings and seminars will span over nine locations within the vast Opera House, the designated palais du festival (palace of festival) for this year.
In its first edition since the January 25 revolution, this year's Cairo International Film Festival features 175 films hailing from 64 countries, to take part in three competitions; international feature films, Arab feature films, and human rights films; and appear in the following sections; African cinema, Arab revolutions in cinema, world cinema, Arabic films, Turkish films, and finally, tolerance and intolerance in cinema.
The Cairo Opera House will be adorned with large-scale graffiti murals commissioned by the CIFF to commemorate the second anniversary of the January 25 revolution.
The annual Cairo International Film Festival was established in 1976 as the first international movie festival in the Arab world. Since 2006, renown Egyptian actor Ezzat Abou-Ouf has been the head of the festival.
Cairo International Film Festival website: http://www.ciff.org.eg/
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