Steven Spielberg’s ‘The Fabelmans’ To Open Cairo International Film Festival; New Team Unveils 2022 Line-Up
deadline.comSteven Spielberg’s semi-autobiographical, coming-of-age drama The Fabelmans has been announced as the opening film of 44th Cairo International Film Festival, running from November 13 to 22.
This year’s edition of the historic Egyptian festival will unfold under the direction of a new management team following the departure of former head Mohamed Hefzy in March.
Veteran actor Hussein Fahmy returns as president at the festival, a role he held in the past, while respected Egyptian film programmer Amir Ramses has taken up the baton of artistic director.
This year’s main International Competition features Ahmad Abdalla’s 19B (Egypt), Firas Khoury’s Alam (Palestine), Nicolas’s Giraud’s The Astronaut (France), Pierre Földes’s Blind Willow Sleeping Woman (France), Damian Kocur’s Bread And Salt (Poland), Maksym Nakonechnyi’s Butterfly Vision (Ukraine), Ali Cherri’s The Dam (France, Lebanon), Ivan Löwenberg’s I Don’t Want To Be Dust (Mexico), Ridha Behi’s The Island Of Forgiveness (Tunisia), Emmanuelle Nicot’s Love According To Dalva by (Belgium), Kei Ishikawa’s A Man (Japan), Luis De Filippis’s Something You Said Last Night (Canada), Eleonora Veninova’s Things Unsaid (Macedonia) and Gregorio Graziosi’s Tinnitus (Brazil).
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