Welcome to the 31st Cairo International Film Festival
Three decades of glorious festivities at the Cairo International Film Festival and
the best is yet to come! We launch our fourth decade with unprecedented events &
novel ideas that will enchant everyone in the festival's 31st edition.
The celebrations commence this year with the opening night on November 27th with
a glamorous star -studded opening ceremony, and ending December 7th with a dazzling
closing ceremony and distribution of awards surpassing all others, both in the presence
of our Honorary President international superstar Omar Sharif.
The 31st edition will be brimming with surprises, novel projects, digital film making
symposiums, other organized by the British Council on the relationship between TV
& Cinema in the UK and other surprises, which we will be announcing in the coming
weeks. You will find them original and stimulating, so keep visiting our website.
The 31st edition of the CIFF is dedicated to the soul of the late Egyptian comedian
"Naguib El Rihany"
Continuing the festival's tradition of honouring national cinema worldwide, we have
selected this years guest to be cinema of the UK. The British Council is one of
our main new partners this year, with the support of his Excellency the British
Ambassador, we will be screening the most recent and best British films and joining
us will be a number of distinguished British filmmakers & stars.