Festivals and Films
Cairo What's on
5-12 May. The second edition of the Cairotronica Festival runs until 12 May. The theme this year is A Future of Possibilities and exhibitions, screenings and workshops present the latest in design, en...
Cairo What's on
Cairo festival of contemporary cinema from the Arab world.9-16 May. Cairo Cinema Days (Ayam Al Qahera Al Cinema’ya) is a showcase of Arab cinema hosting a selection of 40 short, documentary and featur...
Cairo What's on
Cairo International Women's Film Festival
27 Feb-3 March. Women's film festival schedules 60 screenings.
The film festival screens international and local films on important social, cultural and political issues. The films, from 40 countri...
Cairo What's on
Cairo video festival to show video art and experimental films.
10-25 Dec. A selection of films by more than 116 artists and 38 countries organised by the collective Medrar for Contemporary Art.
Sc...
Cairo What's on
Cairo International film festival
Cairo films festival to remember Faten Hamama.
11-20 Nov. The Lady of the Arab Screen is theme of the 37th edition of the festival, dedicated to the Egyptian actress who died in January this year....
Cairo What's on
Cairo International Women's Film Festival
Some 60 films directed by women from 40 countries. This year the festival focuses on films from Germany with Andersen, Majub's Journey, Two at the Border, Clinical Romance and Broken Glass Park, all m...
Cairo What's on
About 40 European films feature in this year's review of European films at the Zawya and Galaxy cinemas.
The films are divided into feature films screened at European festivals, emerging directors,...
Cairo What's on
Cairo International Film Festival
There are 64 feature length films showing from 30 countries, with 28 from Europe, six from Latin America and five from the US and Canada. 48 of the films will be receiving their Middle East and Africa...
Cairo What's on
The purpose of the festival is to encourage low-budget experimental videos and films by up-and-coming Egyptian artists.
It is organised by Medrar for Contemporary Art, a philanthropic organisation...
Cairo What's on
Cairo's Zawya cinema screens animation films
A weekend of short and feature length animated films by Arab and international film makers with discussions following the screenings.
The Arab shorts include a selection from Lebanon, Egypt, Syria,...
Cairo What's on
Egypt's first comics week, entitled BECA Between Cadres, examines the creative art and development of comics and the graphic novel in the country.
The week of exhibitions, workshops, discussion gro...
Cairo What's on
6th Panorama of the European Film
The sixth edition of the Panorama of the European Film will focus on European movies as well as on several contemporary German movies and documentaries. It presents critically acclaimed as well as awa...
Cairo What's on
Backstreet Festival in Alexandria
23-29 September 2012. This dance and theatrical Backstreet Festival takes place under the motto Towards Art in non-traditional Spaces. It offers a space for the dialogue between artists coming from Eu...
Cairo What's on
Submissions for the 12th Independent Short Film Festival
20 June-20 July 2012. Goethe Institut is inviting new Egyptian short films to submit to the next edition of the Independent Short Film Festival of Cairo, which will take place in October.
This thre...
Cairo What's on
21 April-12 May 2012. The School of Sciences and Engineering of the American University of Cairo organizes, in collaboration with the Cambridge Science Festival, the third annual Cairo Science Festiva...
Cairo What's on
Gazbia Sirry: Time & Space 2012
26 February-14 March 2012. Zamalek Art Gallery displays this exhibition, entitled Time & Space 2012, by the Egyptian painter Gazbia Sirry, who is considered one of Egypt
Cairo What's on
Ramses Wissa Wassef Exhibition
19 February-28 June 2012. The American University Cairo (AUC) Library hosts a special exhibition of architectural drawings, entitled The Architect and the Artist, by Ramses Wissa Wassef (1911
Cairo What's on
16 February-7 March 2012. This photographic exhibition, entitled Visionary Africa: Art at Work, lands in Cairo after having toured several African cities during the past two years on occasion of their...
Cairo What's on
15 January-1 February 2012. This painting exhibition, entitled Scenes, features a series of works by the Egyptian artist George Fikry.
In 2000, Georges Fikry obtained his PHD in Fine Arts and he i...
Cairo What's on
Collage Paintings by Shaymaa Kamel
15 January-9 February 2012. This exhibition, entitled A, BE Cartoons, features a series of collage paintings of imagined and drawn scenes by the Egyptian artist Shaymaa Kamel.
