31st Cairo International Film Festival

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31st Cairo International Film Festival

31st CIFF Official Poster
Location	Cairo, Egypt
Founded	1976
Awards	Golden Pyramid
Festival date	November 27 – December 7, 2007
Website	http://www.cairofilmfest.org/

The 31st annual Cairo International Film Festival was held from November 27 to December 7, 2007. English director Nicolas Roeg was the President of the Jury.

Films in competition[]

The following films competed for the Golden Pyramid.

English title	Original title	Director(s)	Country
	ألوان السما السبعة		Egypt
	ع الهوا		Egypt
Intimate Enemies	L'ennmie intime	Florent Emilio Siri	France
	Nincs kegyelem		Hungary
Life in a Metro		Anurag Basu	India
I, the Other	Io, l'altro		Italy
	Ópera		Mexico
	في انتظار باسوليني	Daoud Aoulad-Syad	Morocco
	الجمال المفقود	Lahcen Zinoun	Morocco
In The Name of God	خدا کے لیے	Shoaib Mansoor	Pakistan
			Philippines
	Jaśminum	Jan Jakub Kolski	Poland
	Îngerul necesar		Romania
	Полное дыхание		Russia
	La luna en Bottella		Spain
Kicks			Netherlands
	Cenneti Beklerken	Derviş Zaim	Turkey
And When Did You Last See Your Father?		Anand Tucker	United Kingdom
Seachd: The Inaccessible Pinnacle		Simon Miller	Scotland

Digital Competition[]

The following films were screened in the Digital Competition for Feature Films category.

English title	Original title	Director(s)	Country
		Don Askarian	Armenia
	El trato	Francisco Norden	Colombia
	LaBoom! Exklusiv		Germany
			Germany
			Italy
	眠れる美女		Japan
		&	Morocco
Little Moth	血蝉		China
The High Cost of Living			Singapore
			United Kingdom
			United States
			United States

Arab Competition[]

The following films were screened in the Arab Competition for Feature Films category.

English title	Original title	Director(s)	Country
The Yellow House	البيت الأصفر	Amor Hakkar	Algeria/ France
Delice Paloma			Algeria/ France
Summer of '62	Cartouches Gauloises	Mehdi Charef	Algeria/ France
	الغابة		Egypt
Girls	بلد البنات		Egypt
	ألوان السما السبعة		Egypt
	ع الهوا		Egypt
Caramel	سكر بنات	Nadine Labaki	Lebanon
	في انتظار باسوليني	Daoud Aoulad-Syad	Morocco
	الجمال المفقود	Lahcen Zinoun	Morocco
The Satanic Angels	ملائكة الشيطان	Ahmed Boulane	Morocco
	خارج التغطية	Abdellatif Abdelhamid	Syria
	الهوية		Syria

Films out of competition[]

The following films were screened out of the competition.

English title	Original title	Director(s)	Country
Warden of the Dead	Пазачът на мъртвите		Bulgaria
	Превртено	Igor Ivanov Izy	Macedonia
Boxes		Jane Birkin	France
	به نام پدر	Ebrahim Hatamikia	Iran
	Rezerwat	Łukasz Palkowski	Poland
	Ленинграда		Russia
Rendition		Gavin Hood	United States
A Mighty Heart		Michael Winterbottom	United States

Juries[]

Awards[]

The winners of the 2007 Cairo International Film Festival were:

• Golden Pyramid: L'ennmie intime by Florent Emilio Siri
• : Khuda Kay Liye by Shoaib Mansoor
• Best Director: Florent Emilio Siri for L'ennmie intime
• (Best Screenplay): for Kicks
• Best Actor: Albert Dupontel for L'ennmie intime
• Best Actress:
  • for
  • Tatyana Lyutaeva for
• Naguib Mahfouz Prize (Best Directorial Debut): for
• (Best Artistic Contribution): Derviş Zaim for
• Special Mention: Matthew Beard for And When Did You Last See Your Father? (For Acting)
• Best Arabic Film: by Daoud Aoulad-Syad
• Arabic Film Special Mention:
  • by
  • Caramel by Nadine Labaki
• Golden Award for Digital Films: Xue chan by
• Silver Award for Digital Films: by
• FIPRESCI Prize: for

External links[]

• Official Cairo International Festival Site (in English) Archived 2010-05-25 at the Wayback Machine
• Cairo International Film Festival:2007 at Internet Movie Database