33rd Cairo International Film Festival

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[]

The following films competed for the Golden Pyramid.

English title	Original title	Director(s)	Country
		Gonzalo Calzada	Argentina
	Vjerujem u Anđele		Croatia
	عصافير النيل		Egypt
Letters to Father Jackob	Postia Pappi Jaakobille	Klaus Härö	Finland
The Hedgehog	Le hérisson	Mona Achache	France
Slaves in Their Bonds	Οι Σκλάβοι στα Δεσμά τους		Greece
	Vágyakozás Napjai		Hungary
			India
New York		Kabir Khan	India
The Friends at the Margherita Cafe	Gli amici del bar Margherita	Pupi Avati	Italy
Vortex	Duburys		Lithuania
	فينك اليام		Morocco
			China
	Drzazgi		Poland
Amália			Portugal
	Одна Война	Vera Glagoleva	Russia
I Saw The Sun	Güneşi Gördüm	Mahsun Kırmızıgül	Turkey

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

English title	Original title	Director(s)	Country
(Un)Lucky	زهر	Fatma Zohra Zamoum	Algeria
			Canada
	Paris d'exil		France
	Im Anhang: Lebenslauf		Germany
	Τρυφερότητα		Greece
	Boszorkanykor		Hungary
	Mudhal Mudhal Mudhal Varai		India
	Ang Panggagahasa Kay Fe	Alvin Yapan	Philippines
	Contrato	Nicolau Breyner	Portugal
	Čekaj me, ja sigurno neću doći		Serbia
		,	Spain
New Year's Eve			Switzerland
	Bekçi		Turkey
		Jamil Dehlavi	United Kingdom

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

English title	Original title	Director(s)	Country
Journey to Algiers	رحلة الى الجزائر		Algeria
Heliopolis	مصر الجديدة	Ahmad Abdalla	Egypt
The Nile Birds	عصافير النيل		Egypt
Tale of a Mchaouchi Wrestler	موسم المشاوشة		Morocco
Crossword Destinies	فينك اليام		Morocco
Amreeka	أمريكا	Cherien Dabis	Palestine/ United States
Pomegranates and Myrrh	المر و الرمان	Najwa Najjar	Palestine
The Long Night	الليل الطويل	Hatem Ali	Syria
Thirty	ثلاثون	Fadhel Jaziri	Tunisia
	أسرار دفينة	Raja Amari	Tunisia
A Very Beautiful Trip	سفرة يا محلاها	Khaled Ghorbal	Tunisia/ France

The following films were screened out of the competition.

English title	Original title	Director(s)	Country
	La mosca in la ceniza		Argentina
	Hoy no se fía, mañana sí		Spain/ France
Cairo Time		Ruba Nadda	Canada
The Traveller	المسافر		Egypt
Teza		Haile Gerima	Ethiopia/ France/ Germany
	MR 73	Olivier Marchal	France
	Enfin veuve	Isabelle Mergault	France
	Cliente	Josiane Balasko	France
Home		Yann Arthus-Bertrand	France
	Utolsó idők		Hungary
Dawn of the World	فجر العالم	Abbas Fahdel	France/ Germany/ Iraq
	كزانكرا	Nour Eddine Lakhmari	Morocco
Ward No. 6	Палата № 6	Karen Shakhnazarov	Russia
	Dehb nepemome hux		Ukraine
The Soloist		Joe Wright	United Kingdom/ United States/ France
New Town Killers		Richard Jobson	United Kingdom
The Limits of Control		Jim Jarmusch	United States/ Japan