One danger of having European or American cinema dominate a festival or market, especially in our current global economic structure, is that the cultural hegemony of that worldview or cinematic…
The Panorama of the European Film is probably the main culture headliner this week, spreading out in four of Egypt’s cities. There’s also an intriguing looking four-hour art festival however, organized…
This year there's 37 features, 12 documentaries and 16 shorts in several sections. Here's our brief guide to it all.
A lot went on at the film festival on Thursday. There was a red carpet event before the screening of Indian director, actor and choreographer Farah Khan’s film Om Shanti…
Produced a year after the killing of Anwar Sadat, Atef al-Tayeb's film brought Sadat's infitah policy to harsh trial
An account of day one of Postponed Dates on a Disappearing Coast, a happening in Alexandria in the context of Christodoulos Panayiotou's exhibition Two Days After Forever, led by artist…
A translation of a moving letter from Syrian director Joud Said, who couldn't get an Egyptian visa, and reflection on representing "reality" in Arab film.
“Only people with very international sociabilities may live trans-nationality rather serenely, but they are few,” the filmmakers argue.
Very few cast or crew members for international films have been present. The Russian plane crash, travel warnings and general instability in the region most likely discouraged them.
Although embattled masculinities have long been a topic of Egyptian cinema, a genre of films has emerged in the last few years that one might compare to British “lad culture”…
A lot of people were interested in what the first ever female-led CIFF would look like, especially as gender equality in the film industry is a hotly debated issue these…
Tuk-tuk is a portrait of three young teenage boys who, instead of going to school everyday, man some of the three-wheel vehicles that are a staple of Cairo's informal areas. Screening…
What does winning the Golden Pyramid in 2015 stand for? The program and visual identity should reflect a vision, a set of concerns or questions.
About five minutes in, each piece of art began triggering thoughts about my own moles.
Bulaq Criminal Court has adjourned the trial of novelist Ahmed Naji and the chief editor of Akhbar al-Adab, Tarek al-Taher, to December 12,…
Fi Youm interweaves the lives of six characters who live in contemporary Egypt. They are all struggling with an inefficient, aging and violent state that fails to provide its citizenry…
Perhaps the most unusual and therefore unmissable cultural event this week is a two-day tour through Alexandria led by visual artist Mahmoud Khaled. In Cairo, though, there is also the launch…
Each day, FestBeat is going to bring to you the latest buzz from the ground of the 37th Cairo International Film Festival.
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As part of its Creative Cities conference hosted by the American University in Cairo, CLUSTER organized six tours, each looking at downtown Cairo through a different lens.
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