36th Cairo International Film Festival
Opening film | November 9, 2014 |
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Closing film | November 18, 2014 |
Location | Cairo Citadel, Cairo, Egypt |
Film titles | 155 |
Editor-in-chief | Yousra |
The 36th
Background
Festival management chose Yousra as the first Egyptian jury chair in the history of the Festival.
Lutfi received a special Lifetime Achievement Award during the opening ceremony, and the Festival prepared a documentary on her career that was shown on the second day. The first submissions in Festival history opened from the United Arab Emirates (Ali F. Mostafa’s From A to B) and Iran (Abed Abest’s The Corner).[4]
Egyptian films featured
Six Egyptian films were featured at the Festival. The International Features category included Karim Hanafi’s Bab Al-Wadaa (“The Farewell Gate”), starring
Juries
International Competition
- Yousra, Egyptian actress (Chair)
- Wang Xiaoshuai, Chinese director, whose Red Amnesia was screened here and at the 71st Venice International Film Festival the same year
- Haile Gerima, Ethiopian director
- Corinne van Egeraat, Dutch actress-writer-producer
- Ibrahim Al-Ariss, Lebanese critic
- Alexis Grivas, Greek cinematographer
- Dominique Cabrera, French director
- Mariam Naoum, Egyptian screenwriter
- Nancy Abdel-Fattah, Egyptian cinematographer
International Critics’ Week
- Laila Elwi, Egyptian actress (Chair)
- Mohamed Reda, Lebanese critic
- Najib Ayyad, Tunisian producer
Horizons of Arab Cinema
- Khamis Al-Khayati, Tunisian critic (Chair)
- Deborah Young, Americancritic
- Barbara Löwe, German critic
Films
International
Title | Director | Country |
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Bab Al-Wadaa | Karim Hanafi | Egypt |
Eyes of a Thief | Najwa Najjar | Palestine |
Through a Lens Darkly | Thomas Allen Harris | United States |
We Come as Friends | Hubert Sauper | France |
Boy and the World | Alê Abreu | Brazil |
Charlie's Country | Rolf de Heer | Australia |
Love at First Fight | Thomas Cailley | France |
Red, Blue, Yellow | Nujoom Al-Ghanem | United Arab Emirates |
Giovanni's Island | Mizuho Nishikubo | Japan |
Forever | Margarita Manda | Greece |
And There Was Evening and There Was Morning | Emanuele Caruso | Italy |
Sand Dollars | Laura Amelia Guzmán and Israel Cárdenas | Dominican Republic |
Melbourne | Nima Javidi | Iran |
Five Star | Keith Miller | United States |
Miss Brackets, the Baby-sitter, the Bastard Grandson, and Emma Suarez | Sergio Candel | Spain |
The Blinding Sunlight | Yu Liu | China |
International Critics’ Week
Title | Director | Country |
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* No One's Child | Vuk Ršumović | Serbia/Croatia |
* Costa da Morte | Lois Patiño | Galicia (Spain) |
* Viktoria | Maya Vitkova | Bulgaria |
* Hold Your Breath Like a Lover | Kohei Igarashi | Japan |
* Brides | Tinatin Kajrishvili | Georgia |
* The Iranian Film | Yassine El Idrissi | Morocco |
* Dancing with Maria | Ivan Gergolet | Italy/Argentina |
Awards
International Competition
- Golden Pyramid Award: Melbourne, Nima Javidi
- Silver Pyramid for Best Director: Forever, Margarita Manda
- Silver Pyramid for Best Screenplay, Boy and the World, Alê Abreu
- Silver Pyramid for Best Artistic Contribution: Bab Al-Wadaa, cinematographer Zaki Aref
- Best Actor: Eyes of a Thief, Kal Naga
- Best Actress: Love at First Fight, Adele Hamlin
International Critics’ Week
The following were unanimously announced:
- Shadi Abdeslam Prize: No One's Child, Vuk Ršumović
- Fathi Farag Award for Best Artistic Contribution: Brides, Tinatin Kajrishvili
Prospects of Arab Movies
- Saad Eddine Wahba Prize (Best Artistic Contribution): Sotto Voce, Kamal Kamal (Morocco)
- Youssef Chahine Award (Best Artistic Creativity): Bab Al-Wadaa, Zaki Aref
- Salah Abu Seif Award (Best Arabic Film): Scheherazade's Diary, Zeina Daccache (Lebanon)
- Special Certificate of Appreciation: Theeb
- Naguib Mahfouz Awards (Golden Pyramid of Honor):
- Volker Schlöndorff, German director
- Noureddine Saïl, Egyptian cinematographer
- Nadia Lutfi, Egyptian actress[6]
External links
References
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