Cairo Film Festival Chief Mohamed Hefzy on Challenges of This Year’s Mostly Physical Edition

“There’s a fragment of cosmic blood in this synthetic analog…” – Max Fist. Feel free to read that again.

Kaleem Aftab The Cairo International Film Festival scrapped the red carpet and press conference for Egyptian filmmaker Islam El Azzazi’s debut feature and competition film “About Her” after a number of sexual misconduct allegations were made against the director and surfaced in the hours before the film’s world premiere this week.The first of the allegations against the director was submitted anonymously to Daftar Hekayat, an Arabic blog that shares stories of sexual violence survivors in their

Sharing DNA with everything from The Terminator and contemporary superhero films to The Fisher King and Liquid Television, Adam Egypt Mortimer's Archenemy is named for a villain who may exist only in the mind of a homeless schizophrenic.

Ann-Marie Corvin With the success of Netflix’s Egyptian horror series “Paranormal” and a slew of streamers such as Viu and OSN seeking locally produced originals, the TV market in Egypt is set to undergo rapid change.In response, Cairo International Film Festival’s TV Pitch Market, part of the festival’s Industry Days program and now in its second year, joined forces with Middle East Media Initiative (MEMI) to shape 11 TV projects into a “pitchable” form this week.MEMI, a University of Southern

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Rita Ora has apologised again, after it emerged that her 30th birthday party last month was a double breach of COVID-19 rules. Aside from the fact that she shouldn’t have been having a birthday party at all, she should also have been in self-isolation at the time of the event.According to the Mail On Sunday, Ora flew by private jet to Egypt on 21 Nov in order to perform at the W Hotel in Cairo.

Ann-Marie Corvin Nesrine El-Zayat, whose debut feature “On the Fence” is world premiering at the Cairo Film Festival this week, is typical of the new generation of young Egyptian filmmakers.Lacking access to funds, equipment and formal training but bursting with stories and ideas, El-Zayat borrowed a friend’s camera shortly after the death of her father in 2006 and started shooting.“I didn’t study cinema but watched many films with my father from the age of six and read a lot.

Kaleem Aftab Egyptian filmmaker Marwan Hamed, the director of “The Yacoubian Building,” “The Blue Elephant” and “The Blue Elephant 2,” which last year became the highest-grossing Egyptian film in history, is shooting “Kira and El Gen,” based on Ahmed Mourad’s book “1919,” about Egyptian resistance to British occupation.

Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentEgypt’s Film Clinic, the prominent indie shingle headed by Cairo Film Festival president Mohammed Hefzy, has scored the rare distinction of being the Middle East and North Africa region distributor of a trio of Arabic films that are in the running for the 2021 Academy Award for Best International Feature Film.Film Clinic, which since 2006 has been producing a wide range of Arabic film and TV fare – most recently Netflix Arabic Original series

Rita Ora was supposed to be self-isolating when she broke lockdown rules to throw a birthday party, it has emerged. The Mail on Sunday reports that Ora flew to Egypt in a private jet on 21 November to perform at the five-star W Hotel in Cairo, for which she was paid a six-figure sum.

the singer apologised after she was caught breaking England’s lockdown when she attended a party at a London restaurant in celebration of her 30th birthday.  Rita has now admitted she failed to self-isolate for two weeks after returning from a work trip to Egypt.