32nd Cairo International Film Festival
 32nd CIFF Official Poster | |
| Location | Cairo, Egypt |
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| Founded | 1976 |
| Awards | Golden Pyramid |
| Festival date | November 18–28, 2008 |
| Website | http://www.cairofilmfest.org/ |
The 32nd annual Cairo International Film Festival was held from November 18 to November 28, 2008. Spanish director Imanol Uribe was the president of the jury.
Films in competition
[edit]The following films competed for the Golden Pyramid.
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Country |
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| The Tango Dancer | Gabriel Adrian Arregue |  Argentina
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| Cut Loose | Los | Jan Verheyen |  Belgium
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| Dancers | Dancen | Pernille Fischer Christensen |  Denmark
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| The Day We Met | يوم ما اتقابلنا | Ismail Murad |  Egypt
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| Séraphine | Séraphine | Martin Provost |  France
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| Mark of an Angel | L'empreite de l'ange | Safy Nebbou | France
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| Where the Grass is Greener | Nur ein Sommer | Tamara Staudt |  Germany/ Switzerland
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| El Greco | Ελ Γκρέκο | Yannis Smaragdis |  Greece
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| Mario the Magician | Márió, a varázsló | Tamás Almási |  Hungary/ Italy
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| In the Flesh | Il Tuo Disprezzo | Christian Angeli | Italy
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| Tea Fight | 闘茶 | Wang Yeming |  Japan/ Taiwan
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| The Collectress | Kolekcioniere | Kristina Buozyte |  Lithuania
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| Finding Shangri-La | 這兒是香格里拉 | Ismene Ting |  China
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| The Vanished Empire | Исчезнувшая империя | Karen Shakhnazarov |  Russia
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| Return to Hansala | Retorno a Hansala | Chus Gutiérrez |  Spain
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| The Blind Sunflowers | Los girasoles ciegos | José Luis Cuerda | Spain
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| Tandoori Love | Oliver Pavlus | Switzerland
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| The Messenger | Ulak | Çağan Irmak |  Turkey
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Digital Competition
[edit]The following films were screened in the Digital Competition for Feature Films category.
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Country |
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| No One's Normal When You're Near | De cerca nadie es normal | Marcelo Mosenson | Argentina
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| Behind the Glass | Iza stakla | Zrinko Ogresta |  Croatia
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| The Story of the Virgin Butterfly | قصة الفراشة العذراء | Walid Aouni | Egypt
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| W.C. | Liam O Mochain |  Ireland
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| Three Lira | Lira 3 | Andrea Pellizzer | Italy
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| Goodbye | へばの | Bunyo Kimura | Japan
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| Be With Me | خليك معي | Elie Habib |  Lebanon
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| Seasons of Life | Charles Shimu Joya |  Malawi
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| Changing Faces | Faruk Afolabi Lassaki |  Nigeria
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| Zimbabwe | Darrell Roodt |  South Africa
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| Ordinary Boys | Chicos normales | Daniel Hernandez | Spain
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| Dot | Nokta | Derviş Zaim | Turkey
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| Mozlym | Edreace Purmul |  United States
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| Shades of Ray | Jaffar Mahmood | United States/ Pakistan
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Arab Competition
[edit]The following films were screened in the Arab Competition for Feature Films category.
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Country |
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| Men's Affair | Amine Kais |  Algeria/ United States
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| Mascarades | مسخرة | Lyes Salem | Algeria/ France
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| Adhen | Rabah Ameur-Zaïmeche | Algeria/ France
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| Four Girls | أربع فتيات | Hussein El Hulaibi |  Bahrain
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| Basra | بصرة | Ahmed Rashwan | Egypt
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| Fawzeya's Secret Recipe | خلطة فوزية | Magdy Ahmed Ali | Egypt
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| Swimming Bolteya | بلطية العايمة | Ali Ragab | Egypt
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| Number One | رقم واحد | Zakia Tahri |  Morocco
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| Laila's Birthday | عيد ميلاد ليلى | Rachid Masharawy |  Palestine
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| Salt of this Sea | ملح هذا البحر | Annemarie Jacir | Palestine
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| Hassiba | حسيبة | Raymond Boutros |  Syria
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| Days of Boredom | أيام الضجر | Abdellatif Abdelhamid | Syria
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| The Accident | حادثة | Rachid Ferchiou |  Tunisia
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| Five | خمسة | Karim Dridi | Tunisia/ France
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Films out of competition
[edit]The following films were screened out of the competition.
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Country |
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| The Homecoming | Μπαρ Φλωμπέρ | Vassilis Douvlis | Greece
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| The Last Year | Rituparno Gosh |  India
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| Ocean of an Old Man | Rajesh Shera | India
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| The Sea Within | Ore Kadal | Shyamaprasad | India
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| Taj Mahal: An Eternal Love Story | Akbar Khan | India
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| The Demons of St. Petersburg | I demoni di San Pietroburgo | Giuliano Montaldo | Italy
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| Gomorra | Matteo Garrone | Italy
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| All the Women in My Life | Tutte le donne della mia vita | Simona Izzo | Italy
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| Teo's Voyage | El viajo de Teo | Walter Doehner |  Mexico
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| The Tour | Турнеја | Goran Marković |  Serbia
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| Promise Me This | Завет | Emir Kusturica | Serbia/ France
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| Three Monkeys | Üç Maymun | Nuri Bilge Ceylan | Turkey
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| It's a Free World... | Ken Loach |  United Kingdom
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| Battle In Seattle | Stuart Townsend | United States
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| Into the Wild | Sean Penn | United States
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| Margot at the Wedding | Noah Baumbach | United States
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Juries
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International Competition[edit]
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Digital Competition[edit]
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Arab Competition[edit]
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Awards
[edit]The winners of the 2008 Cairo International Film Festival were:
- Golden Pyramid: Retorno a Hansala by Chus Gutiérrez
- Sliver Pyramid: Los by Jan Verheyen
- Best Director: Pernille Fischer Christensen for Dansen
- Saad El-Din Wahba Prize (Best Screenplay):
- Best Actor: Juan Diego Botto for El Greco
- Best Actress: Yolande Moreau for Séraphine
- Naguib Mahfouz Prize (Best Second Work): Safy Nebbou for L'empreite de l'ange
- Youssef Chahine Prize (Best Artistic Contribution): Oliver Pavlus for Tandoori Love
- Special Mention:
- Finding Shangri-La by Ismene Ting (For Cinematography)
- Los girasoles ciegos by José Luis Cuerda
- Best Arabic Film: Mascarades by Lyes Salem
- Best Arabic Screenplay:
- Golden Award for Digital Films: Nokta by Derviş Zaim
- Silver Award for Digital Films: Goodbye by Bunyo Kimura
- FIPRESCI Prize: Chus Gutiérrez for Retorno a Hansala