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29 Jan – 8 Feb 2026

Overview of articles

  • Crop

    Crop was shot entirely on location at Al-Ahram, Egypt’s biggest state newspaper. The film reflects on the power of the image during the Egyptian Revol
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  • Night Visitor: The Night of Counting the Years

    Night Visitor is a compilation of YouTube clips of citizens breaking into Egyptian sites of power; it documents the recent Egyptian revolution.
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  • 80 Million

    The Egyptian revolutionary drum that initially sounded in the distance, explosively comes to life.
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  • Time Laughs Back at You Like a Sunken Ship

    Basim Magdy’s wide range of work extends from painting to filmmaking and photography. He blends fiction with reality by manipulating how images are re
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  • 2026

    A time traveller recounts his vision of the future of the Pyramids area, and by extension Egypt, in the year 2026.
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  • Though I Know the River Is Dry

    Caught between his brother’s past and his child’s future, one man’s choice triggers catastrophe for his whole family.
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  • The Cave

    A career in Cairo calls for bassist Adham while he tries to breathe new life into old friendships.
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  • The Iranian Film

    Creative documentary about filmmaking in Morocco, by a filmmaker inspired by Iranian masters. He sets out to get his own film off the ground. On…
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  • Café Regular, Cairo

    Taboos are broken during a candid conversation in a bar. A refreshing look at male-female relations in contemporary Egypt. Screened before Night #1.
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  • Rags and Tatters

    January 2011: Egypt is in the grip of revolution. Asser Yassin escapes from jail only to end up in a country he no longer recognises.…
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