33rd Cairo International Film Festival
 33rd CIFF Official Poster | |
| Location | Cairo, Egypt |
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| Founded | 1976 |
| Awards | Golden Pyramid |
| Festival date | November 10–20, 2009 |
| Website | http://www.cairofilmfest.org/ |
The 33rd annual Cairo International Film Festival was held from November 10 to November 20, 2009. Indian director Adoor Gopalakrishnan 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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| Luisa | Gonzalo Calzada |  Argentina
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| I Believe In Angels | Vjerujem u Anđele | Niksa Svilicic |  Croatia
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| The Nile Birds | عصافير النيل | Magdy Ahmed Ali |  Egypt
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| Letters to Father Jackob | Postia Pappi Jaakobille | Klaus Härö |  Finland
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| The Hedgehog | Le hérisson | Mona Achache |  France
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| Slaves in Their Bonds | Οι Σκλάβοι στα Δεσμά τους | Adonis Lykouresis |  Greece
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| The Days of Desire | Vágyakozás Napjai | Jósef Pacskovszky |  Hungary
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| Madholal Keep Walking | Jai Tank |  India
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| New York | Kabir Khan | India
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| The Friends at the Margherita Cafe | Gli amici del bar Margherita | Pupi Avati |  Italy
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| Vortex | Duburys | Gytis Luksas |  Lithuania
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| Crossword Destinies | فينك اليام | Driss Chouika |  Morocco
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| Tiny Dust, True Love | Shen Dong |  China
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| Splinters | Drzazgi | Maciej Pieprzyca |  Poland
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| Amália | Carlos Coelho da Silva |  Portugal
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| One War | Одна Война | Vera Glagoleva |  Russia
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| I Saw The Sun | Güneşi Gördüm | Mahsun Kırmızıgül |  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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| (Un)Lucky | زهر | Fatma Zohra Zamoum |  Algeria
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| Open Diaries | Sasha A. Schriber |  Canada
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| Exile in Paris | Paris d'exil | Ahmet Zirek | France
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| C.V. Attached | Im Anhang: Lebenslauf | Andrea Schorr |  Germany
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| Tenderness | Τρυφερότητα | Panagiotis Karamitsos | Greece
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| Witches Circle | Boszorkanykor | Dizso Zsigmond | Hungary
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| First Time | Mudhal Mudhal Mudhal Varai | Krishnan Seshardi Gomatam | India
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| The Rapture of Fe | Ang Panggagahasa Kay Fe | Alvin Yapan |  Philippines
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| Contract | Contrato | Nicolau Breyner | Portugal
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| Wait For Me and I Will Not Return | Čekaj me, ja sigurno neću doći | Miroslav Momcilovic |  Serbia
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| Xtrems | Abel Folk, Joan Riedweg |  Spain
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| New Year's Eve | Jhake R. Wells |  Switzerland
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| The Watcher | Bekçi | Özcan Tekdemir | Turkey
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| Godforsaken | Jamil Dehlavi |  United Kingdom
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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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| Journey to Algiers | رحلة الى الجزائر | Abdelkrim Baloul | Algeria
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| Heliopolis | مصر الجديدة | Ahmad Abdalla | Egypt
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| The Nile Birds | عصافير النيل | Magdy Ahmed Ali | Egypt
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| Tale of a Mchaouchi Wrestler | موسم المشاوشة | Mohamed Ahed Bensouda | Morocco
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| Crossword Destinies | فينك اليام | Driss Chouika | Morocco
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| Amreeka | أمريكا | Cherien Dabis |  Palestine/ United States
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| Pomegranates and Myrrh | المر و الرمان | Najwa Najjar | Palestine
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| The Long Night | الليل الطويل | Hatem Ali |  Syria
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| Thirty | ثلاثون | Fadhel Jaziri |  Tunisia
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| Buried Secrets | أسرار دفينة | Raja Amari | Tunisia
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| A Very Beautiful Trip | سفرة يا محلاها | Khaled Ghorbal | 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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| A Fly in the Ashes | La mosca in la ceniza | Gabriela David | Argentina
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| Forever waiting | Hoy no se fía, mañana sí | Francisco Avizanda | Spain/ France
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| Cairo Time | Ruba Nadda | Canada
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| The Traveller | المسافر | Ahmed Maher | Egypt
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| Teza | Haile Gerima |  Ethiopia/ France/ Germany
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| Marchal | MR 73 | Olivier Marchal | France
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| A Widow at Last | Enfin veuve | Isabelle Mergault | France
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| Client (A French Gigolo) | Cliente | Josiane Balasko | France
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| Home | Yann Arthus-Bertrand | France
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| Lost Times | Utolsó idők | Áron Mátyássy | Hungary
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| Dawn of the World | فجر العالم | Abbas Fahdel | France/ Germany/ Iraq
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| Casanegra | كزانكرا | Nour Eddine Lakhmari | Morocco
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| Ward No. 6 | Палата № 6 | Karen Shakhnazarov | Russia
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| Day of Defeated | Dehb nepemome hux | Yamburskiy Valeriy |  Ukraine
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| The Soloist | Joe Wright | United Kingdom/ United States/ France
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| New Town Killers | Richard Jobson | United Kingdom
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| The Limits of Control | Jim Jarmusch | United States/ Japan
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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 2009 Cairo International Film Festival were:
- Golden Pyramid: Postia Pappi Jaakobille by Klaus Härö
- Silver Pyramid: Le hérisson by Mona Achache
- Best Director: Mona Achache for Le hérisson
- Saad El-Din Wahba Prize (Best Screenplay): Klaus Härö for Postia Pappi Jaakobille
- Best Actor:
- Best Actress: Karolina Piechota for Drzazgi
- Naguib Mahfouz Prize (Best Directorial Debut): Gonzalo Calzada for Luisa
- Youssef Chahine Prize (Best Artistic Contribution): Vera Glagoleva for Odna voyna
- Best Arabic Film: Amreeka by Cherien Dabis
- Best Arabic Screenplay: Cherien Dabis for Amreeka
- Arabic Film Special Mention:
- Golden Award for Digital Films: The Rapture of Fe by Alvin Yapan
- Silver Award for Digital Films:
- FIPRESCI Prize: Mona Achache for Le hérisson