The Cairo International Film Festival is an annual film festival held in Cairo, Egypt. It was established in 1976 and was the first film festival in the Middle East.
In 1975, after a visit to the Berlin Film Festival the late writer-critic Kamal El Mallakh and a group of like-minded cinema critics wondered why such a world-class festival couldn't take place in Egypt. The...
Cairo International Film Festival
Film festival
Sponsoring organization:
- Union of Artist's Syndicates
- The Egyptian Association of Film Writers and Critics
- Egyptian Ministry of Culture