My Father's Scent

Cairo Film Connection 2024: Full Line-Up 

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Cairo Film Connection (CFC), the funding platform of Cairo International Film Festival, has selected 18 projects from the Arab world for its tenth edition. 

The projects were chosen from a pool of over 200 submissions by a selection committee comprising Egyptian filmmakers Yomna Khatab, Ahmed Refaat and Heba Habib. The CFC jury comprises Hugo Rosak, head of industry office at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival; Egyptian filmmaker Hala Galal and Lebanese producer Myriam Sassine. 

CFC, headed by newly appointed director Rodrigo Brum, is taking place November 17-20, during the festival’s Industry Days, while Cairo International Film Festival is schedued for November 13-22.

CAIRO FILM CONNECTION 2024: 

IN DEVELOPMENT: FEATURE NARRATIVE

All The Colors Blue (Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Egypt)
Dir: Maysaa Almumin
 
Ayin Hara (Iraq)
Dir: Yasir Kareem
 
Before Now, Later (Lebanon)
Dir: Karim Kassem
 
Dancing On Fire (Saudi Arabia, Netherlands)
Dir: Hana Alomair
 
Exodus (Egypt)
Dir: Rasha Shahin
 
Kohl & Cardamom (Egypt)
Dir: Fady Gamal Atallah
 
Of Debt And Money (Tunisia)
Dir: Houssem Sansa

IN DEVELOPMENT: FEATURE DOCUMENTARY

Amal (Jordan)
Dir: Khaled Al Swidan

Dry Sky (Sudan, Egypt)
Dir: Ibrahim Omar

My Dream To Fly (Egypt, Qatar)
Dir: Asmaa Gamal Algafrie

Ninety Sixty Thirty (Egypt)
Dir: Hany Yassa

The North Wind (Lebanon)
Dir: Eliane Raheb

POST-PRODUCTION: FEATURE NARRATIVE

My Father’s Scent (Egypt, Sweden, Norway, Saudi Arabia) [PICTURED ABOVE]
Dir: Mohamed Siam

Thank You Satan (Morocco, France)
Dir: Hicham Lasri

POST-PRODUCTION: FEATURE DOCUMENTARY

40 Years Of Silence (Iraq, UK, Sweden)
Dir: Maythem Ridha

Barcha (Tunisia)
Dir: Nada Mezni Hafaiedh

Big Boys Don’t Cry (Egypt, Germany, Saudi)
Dir: Muhammad Mustapha

You Don’t Die Two Times (Algeria)
Dir: Ager Oueslati