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Cairo Film Festival Roars Back With Humanist Focus, Populist Flair
For its bulked up 45th edition, Cairo Film Festival will showcase Palestinian voices and Chinese genre fare.
Originally named to lead last year’s jury, filmmaker Danis Tanović will oversee an international competition that features festival standouts like Adam Elliot’s “Memoir of a Snail” and Constance Tsang’s “Blue Sun Palace,” alongside world premiering titles like Shankha Das Gupta’s “Dear Maloti” from Bangladesh and Khedija Lemkecher’s “4 O’Clock Flowers” from Tunisia. Cairo’s curatorial remit builds on a wider goal to boost participation, with the event now aiming for 60,000 attendees – a record that would add nearly 20,000 festivalgoers to the 2022 score. With local megastar Ahmed Ezz and heralded auteur Yousry Nasrallah set for festival tributes, this year’s international guests of honors include Gaspar Noé, Jim Sheridan, Eric Roberts and Chen Sicheng.
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