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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

A Royal Affair

A Royal Affair  or EN KONGELIG AFFAERE / A Royal Affair / علاقة ملكية

A story about the dramatic love affair and political aspirations of Queen Caroline Mathilde and Johann Struensee, physician to the deranged King Chris...

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Here I am Here I am not

Here I am Here I am not  or AQUI ESTOY,AQUI NO/ Here I am Here I am not /أنا هنا ... و أنا لست هنا

Ramiro is a journalist that after being on a car accident, develops phobia to speed. Suspended from his job, a mysterious publisher commissioned him t...

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Bahrain, the Forbidden Country

Bahrain, the Forbidden Country or Bahrain, the Forbidden Country

It is almost impossible to go to Bahrain when you're a journalist. This small Persian Gulf monarchy does not issue visas to the press. Cross the borde...

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STRANGER

STRANGER or الغرباء

An insomniac old man who has kept silent for many years begins to talk after the arrivalof a kind nurse and recounts memories of his remote past.. whe...

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Terri

Terri  or TERRI/ Terri / تيري

Having been abandoned by his parents to an ailing uncle, Terri, is mercilessly teased by his peers and garners even more unwanted attention from schoo...

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Drapchi

Drapchi  or

Modern Tibet is a political hotbed where present-day is at war with traditional-past and an uncertain future awaits casualties who raise their voice i...

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Bol

Bol or

Bol takes you through a journey into the life of this family experiencing their troubles, sufferings, resolves and high points. As family members ta...

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Ali

Ali or

Ali is eighteen. She is afraid of driving and falling in love. She works in a supermarket. The supermarket is like the school playground for her, but ...

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Kingdom of Ants

Kingdom of Ants or

Palestine 2002... Daily bombing, Apache helicopters and tanks issuing lava claiming lives and coming on everything ... Bulldozers demolish homes...Und...

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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

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

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 Saif

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

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

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CIFF 2012
News Room

Thank You

Thank You or

In the midst of all the tragic events over shadowing our beloved country, which breaks our hearts and the heart of every loving soul to this countr

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Winter of Discontent

Winter of Discontent or

The Cairo International Film Festival chose the film "Winter of Discontent", directed by Ibrahim El-Batout, to be screened at the opening of its 35

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