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CIFF 2012 Film Market opening a link

Dr. Ezzat Abou Aouf - The CIFF President - and Dr. Mohamed Saber Arab -Minister of Culture- in the Film Market Opening

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When I Saw You Movie Details

Jordan, 1967. The world is alive with change: brimming with reawakened energy, new styles, music and an infectious sense of hope.

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Cairo Film Festival 35 th. Edition

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. The presidents of the CIFF festival since it was founded in 1976 to 2006 are Saad El-Din Wahba, Hussein Fahmy and Sherif El Shoubashy. In the year 2006 a new president was appointed for the festival he is Egyptian actor and musician Ezzat Abou-Ouf.

CIFF 2012
Official Sections

I AM A DIRECTOR

I am a Director is about Carlos, a director, who returned to Puerto Rico, five years ago, along with his friend and producer, Joa. Both share the dre...

Death Triangle

To escape to the European Paradise, the only way is to go through the tunnel where a monster lives hidden inside not allowing anyone to pass. A 70 yea...

A Soft Scent of Cinnamon

Valia is a young woman used to observe the others as part of her work and so, reality for her is becoming a canvas where characters live out a kind of...

SOLEI-MAN

Aisha is a traditional muslim woman, who lives happily with her husband, although their only child is sick with Cancer. Until one day, Eva, a European...

Bedouin

Rita's daughter is sick with leukemia. In order to obtain the money for a bone marrow transplant, she travels from Ukraine to Russia to become a surro...

Magnifica presenza

The only dream of Pietro is to become a famous actor. 28 year-old Pietro is so obsessed with becoming an actor that he does not mind trying every sin...

Paan Singh Tomar

form a small town of madhya pradesh rose an athlete who ruled the steeplechase event at the indian national games for 7 years in a row,whose record st...

The Woman in the Septic Tank

Ang Babae sa Septic Tank chronicles a day in the life of three ambitious, passionate but misguided filmmakers as they set out to do a quick pre-prod ...

Eyes of Freedom, Street of Death

Egyptian film Eyes of Eion El Horreya Sharee El Moot (Freedom Street of Death), its handling what had happened in Moahmed Mahmoud street, where Minist...

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CIFF 2012 Awards

International Competition for
Feature Films

The Golden Pyramid for Best Film

For a simple and moving account of a man searching to become the father that he never was The Golden Pyramid for best film, to be awarded to the director

Film: Rendez-Vous in Kiruna
Directed by: Anna Novion
Produced by: La Mouche du Coche
Country: (France)

The Silver Pyramid

For its transformation of our contemporary economic crisis into a truly modern tragedy Special Jury Prize, awarded to the director:

Film: L’industriale
Directed by: Guiliano Montaldo
Produced by: Bibi Film
Country: (Italy)

Shadi Abdel Salam

For its timely, sensitive and touching depiction of an important family issue The "Shadi Abdel Salam" award For the first film,(Presented to the director)

Vanessa Di Quattro
For her role in Film: Breach in the Silence
Directed by: Luis Alejandro & Andres Eduardo Rodriguez
Produced by: The Motion Illusion Project
Country: ( Venezuela )

Isis Prize for Best Actress

For her bold performance in a film that tears off the mask of oppression:

Vanessa Di Quattro
For her role in Film: Breach in the Silence
Directed by: Luis Alejandro & Andres Eduardo Rodriguez
Produced by: The Motion Illusion Project
Country: ( Venezuela )

Isis Prize for Best Actor

For his rich and subtle performance as an older man facing a new turn in his life:

To the Actor: Marian Dziedziel
For his role in Film: The Fifth Season of the Year
Directed by: Jerzy Domaradzki
Produced by: WFDIF
Country: (Poland)

International Competition for
Arab Feature Films

Naguib Mahfouz Award

Goes to a Film with high artistic value inviting for dialogue, cohabitation and acceptance of the other.

Film: The Miscreants
Directed by: Mohcine Besri
Produced by: Tamawayt Productions
Country: (Morocco)

Isis Prize for Best Actress

Actress: Adila Ben Dimerad
Film: The Repentant
Directed by: Merzak Allouache
Produced by: Yacine Djadi, Baya Films
Country: (Algeria- France)

Isis Prize for Best Actor

Goes to the Great Actor: Saad Al Farag
For his role in Film: Tora Bora
Directed by: Walid Al Awadi
Produced by: C Sky Pictures
Country: (Kuwait)

Arab films Competition (Special Mention)

For the Rich Image and Scenes

For his Film: Heels of War
To the Director: Joe Bou Eid
Produced by: Naftaleen Entertainment
Country (Lebanon).

Arab films Competition (Special Mention)

For its optimistic Vision regarding the Palestinian Cause

For the film “When I Saw You”
To the Director: Anne Marie Jacir
Produced by: Philistine Films
Country (Palestine- Jordan).

Arab films Competition (Special Mention)

Prize of the 35th edition of the Cairo International Film Festival, The exceptional edition held in exceptional circumstances, The Prize goes to a film with a high cinematographic language that detects the results of the 25th of January revolution. It has a distinguished direction- Dialogue and acting:

Film: El-sheta elli-fat (Winter of Discontent)
Directed by: Ibrahim El Batout
Produced by: Zad Communication and Production LLC
Country: (Egypt)

International Competition for
Human Rights

Human Rights Competition The Tahrir Square Prize

Awarded to the best film promoting the values of Human Rights, and given to the director And for the very fine cinematique language and for a vision of a better word where people live in peace and with tolerance and acceptance. We the members of the Jury award:

Film: Rose
Directed by: Wojciech Smarzowski
Produced by: WFDIF
Country: (Poland)

Human Rights Competition (Special Mention)

After much deliberation we would like to award a special mention to a film that recognizes with humor and warmth the right to all humans beings to live and die with Dignity, The special merit award goes to the direction crew, and inspiring cast of :

The Film: Full Circle
Directed by: Zhang Yang
Produced by: Dasen International Media CO, LTD.
Country: (China)

The International
Critics Prize

The FIPRESCI Award

Goes to:

Directors: Luis Alejandro & Andres Eduardo Rodriguez
For their film: Breach in the Silence
Produced by: The Motion Illusion Project
Country: (Venezuela)

Cairo Film Connection Prize

Presented to the Feature Film

Two Rooms and a Parlor
Directed by: Sherif El Bendari
Produced by: Racha Najdi
Country: (Egypt- Lebanon)

Presented to the Feature Documentary

Little
Directed by: Nagham Osman
Produced by: Karim Amer
Country: (Egypt)

CIFF 2012 Tributes

Egyptian Tributes

Libliba
Actress & Singer – Egypt

She began working in films at the age of five and became famous for imitating celebrities. She studied classical ballet and was widely famed for singing children's songs. She has recorded 260 songs, and won Best Actress Award in 1996 from Paris Biennial of Arab Cinema (Biennale des Cinemas Arabes a Paris) ... Read more..

Nelly
Actress – Egypt

The artist and the superstar Nelly, is one of the most important show stars in the history of an Egyptian cinema, Television and theater. Nelly was born in 1949 at Al Dahr in central Cairo, to an Egyptian family of Armenian origins. She is the younger sister of the child prodigy "Fayroz"... Read more..

Onsi Abo Saief
Egypt

Set engineer, fashion designer, artistic director of the Aswan Sculpture Symposium, a member of the Film Commission. He graduated from the Higher Institute of Cinema in 1967 He began his career as an assistant to an interior decorator in the film "The Mummy"... Read more..

Foreign Tributes

Zhang Yimou
Director, Producer, Writer and Actor

Born 1951 in Xi'an, Shaanxi, China .He is a film director, producer, writer and actor, and former cinematographer.He is counted amongst the Fifth Generation of Chinese filmmakers, having made his directorial debut in 1987 with Red Sorghum... Read more..

CIFF 2012 Jury

Marco Muller
President of the Jury for International Competition

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Marco Müller (Mueller), born in Rome in 1953, returned to his hometown in 2012 to direct the Rome Film Festival, following 22 years of absence, during which he has held the positions of Festival Director in Rotterdam (1989-1991), Locarno (1991-2000) and most recently Venice (2004-2011)... Read more..

Ghada Shahbender
President for Human Rights Film Competition

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International Competition Jury will be formed under the terms of the Rules of the International Federation of Film Producers Associations. Read more..

Mr. Mahmoud Abdel Aziz
President for the Arabic Film Competition

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Mahmoud Abdel Aziz was born in Alexandria, Egypt to a middle class family. He studied Agricultural Sciences and during his college days he practiced acting through the university theatre. He started his acting career by taking a role in "Al Dawama" TV show in the mid 70s .. Read more..

Klaus Eder
President for FIPRESCI Jury

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Born 1939 in the German city of Augsburg. Studied German literature at Stuttgart university. Worked as film critic from the middle of the 60s, for the national radio and for German language film magazines... Read more..

CIFF 2012
General Symposiums

African Cinema as a Medium of Political, Social, and Cultural Emancipation and its Role in Improving Africa’s Image 29
Nov

The Panel will be headed by The Minister of Culture, Dr. Saber Arab and managed by ambassador Mona Omar Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs for African Affairs and African Union. Read more.. Book your Ticket..

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