29th Cairo International Film Festival

Egypt, November 29 - December 9 2005

The jury

Grégory Valens (France), György Báron (Hungary), Steve Ayorinde (Nigeria), Essam Zakarea (Egypt)

Awarded films

Magic Eye by Kujtim Cashku
(Albania, 2005, 93 mins)

Reports

The Capital of Arab Cinema By Grégory Valens by Grégory Valens
Terror. Cairo Calls for Caution By Steve Ayorinde by Steve Ayorinde
The Man with a Movie Camera By Gyorgy Baron by György Báron
Politics in the Steps of Suspense Master By Essam Zakarea by Essam Zakarea

In this major film event in the Arab world, FIPRESCI participated for the first time with its jury of film critics. In the competitive program, our jurors discovered an Albanian film, Magic Eye by Kujtim Çashku, to which they awarded our first Cairo prize.