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In 1936, Egypt held its first ever Egyptian cinema festival in Cairo, followed by another one in 1938. [8] Since 1952, Cairo has held the Egyptian Catholic Center Film Festival ; [ 9 ] [ 10 ] it is the oldest film festival in the Middle East and Africa . [ 11 ]
The Cairo International Film Festival is an annual internationally accredited film festival held in Cairo Opera House. [1] It was established in 1976 and has taken place every year since its inception, except for 2011 and 2013, when it was cancelled due to budget limitations and political instability .
Everything old was new again at this year’s Cairo Film Festival. Filling out a super-sized 45th edition, the Egyptian event introduced a new section dedicated to heritage titles, showcasing 10 ...
The Higher Institute of Cinema in Cairo, Egypt, [1] also known as the Cairo Higher Film Institute, [2] [3] also translated as the Cairo Higher Institute of Cinema [4] or Cairo Higher Cinema Institute, [5] [6] was founded in 1959 by government decree as one of several arts institutes affiliated to the Ministry of Culture.
Festival management chose Yousra as the first Egyptian jury chair in the history of the Festival. [2] animated and a documentary films also made their first appearances with one of each. Another unprecedented move was hiring an Egyptian designer, Karim Adam, to design the official poster, featuring local actress Nadia Lutfi. [3]
Economist and financier Talaat Harb, realised the cultural and economic impact of cinema, as films began to be made in the 1920s. At a time when feature films were being made in a few very basic film studios established first in Alexandria and then Cairo, he created the Misr Company for Acting and Cinema (MCAC), also known as Egyptian Acting and Cinema Company, which produced documentaries to ...
The following is a list of Egyptian films. The year order is split by decade. The year order is split by decade. For an alphabetical list of films currently on Wikipedia, see Category:Egyptian films .
In 1924, Harb decided to venture into the cinematic field, not just as a film production process but also as a national industry. He and his colleagues obtained a license from King Fouad on 13 June 1925, to establish an Egyptian joint-stock company known as "Sharikat Misr lil-Tamthil wa al-Sinema" (Egyptian Company for Acting and Cinema) with a capital of 15,000 Egyptian pounds, financed by ...