Afrigather Egyptian and Arab stars hit the crimson carpet on the opening of the forty fourth Cairo Worldwide Movie Pageant which kicked off Sunday (13 NOV 2022) night time at Egypt’s well-known Opera Home.
Dozens of Egyptian and Arab celebrities attended the annual occasion — one of the famend within the Arab world.
“There’s a warfare happening in Europe and there may be very excessive stress in East Asia with very troublesome financial situations, all of this represents a really large problem for us. We even have the COP27 that’s nonetheless happening, and on the finish of the pageant there may be the World Cup. Thank God we’re struggling to remain afloat” Hussein Fahmy, Pageant President stated.
The pageant celebrates what legendary Hungarian filmmaker Béla Tarr described throughout the opening as “common language of cinema.” Tarr acquired the celebrated Lifetime Achievement Award this yr.
“The trade everywhere in the Arabic world remains to be struggling, however Egypt is an exception, as Tunisia is also an exception as a result of there may be some international locations who’ve extra movies than others, so additionally it is our function to lift the voices of all these international locations, the utmost we are able to do.“ says Lynda Belkhiria, Head of Cairo Movie Connection.
The occasion will embrace 97 movies from greater than 52 international locations. The president of this yr’s worldwide jury is Japanese director Naomi Kawase.
The forty fourth version will run for ten days till November twenty second.
