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Cairo Film Festival Launches New Market to Foster International Co-Productions
The Cairo Film Festival will launch a newly revamped and streamlined market to encourage collaboration with Chinese, Saudi and European partners.
Now kicking off its 45 th edition, the Egyptian event has remained a key cultural and artistic showcase for the region and for the wider Middle East and North Africa world – but Cairo has gone without a market since scuppering that component after the country’s 2011 revolution. “To celebrate a decade of supporting Arab filmmakers, we’ve chosen to include one additional project per category in this year’s edition,” said incoming Cairo Film Connection director Rodrigo Brum in a statement. Of the 18 projects selected for this year’s edition, six stem from Egypt, with Tunisia, Iraq, and Lebanon all delivering two each alongside individual titles from Kuwait, Sudan, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Morocco and Algeria.
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