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