The 32nd annual

Cairo International Film Festival The Cairo International Film Festival ( ar, مهرجان القاهرة السينمائي الدولي) is an annual internationally accredited film festival held in Cairo Opera House. It was established in 1976 and has taken place every year sin ...

was held from November 18 to November 28, 2008. Spanish director

Imanol Uribe Imanol Uribe (born 28 February 1950) is a Spanish screenwriter and film director. He won the Goya Award for Best Director and Best Screenplay for the 1994 thriller '' Running Out of Time''. Biography Born in San Salvador on 28 February 1950 to ...

was the President of the Jury.

Films in competition

The following films competed for the

Golden Pyramid The Golden Pyramid Award is the highest prize for best film in the international competition of the Cairo International Film Festival, hosted annually in Cairo, Egypt Egypt ( ar, مصر , ), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a List of ...

Digital Competition

The following films were screened in the Digital Competition for Feature Films category.

Arab Competition

The following films were screened in the Arab Competition for Feature Films category.

Films out of competition

The following films were screened out of the competition.

Juries

International Competition

, Spanish director (President) *

Mohamed Khan Mohamed Hamed Hassan Khan ( ar, محمد حامد حسن خان ; 26 October 1942 – 26 July 2016) was an Egyptian film director, screenwriter, and actor. He was a pivotal member of the "1980s generation" in Egyptian cinema, along with director ...

, Egyptian director * Dalia El Behiry, Egyptian Actress *

Grazia Volpi Grazia Volpi (29 March 1941 – 7 February 2020) was an Italian film producer. She was one of the first women in Italy who achieved the position of film producer. Biography She started working in the late 1960s as general organizer and production ...

, Italian Producer *

Mahmood Ali-Balogun Mahmood Ali-Balogun is a Nigerian filmmaker, cultural worker and the managing director of Brickwall Communications Limited. He directed the multiple award-winning film ' Tango With Me'. He is the Chairman of the Audio Visual Rights Society (AVRS ...

, Nigerian Director * Sophie Ndaba, South African actress * Suzan Najm El Din, Syrian actress * Gungor Bayrak, Turkish actress *

Anthony Sloman Anthony B. Sloman (born 6 May 1945 in Waltham Abbey, Essex) is an English film producer and screenwriter. Tony Sloman is a cinema critic and historian, whose long career has encompassed many facets of film making. He has worked intermittently ...

, English director

Digital Competition

Tarek Al Eryan Tarek Alarian ( ar, طارق العريان) (born September 12, 1963) is a Palestinian-Egyptian film director. He is also credited as Tarek El'eryan and Tarek Eryan. Education Alarian holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in both Communication a ...

, Egyptian director (President) *

Karl Baumgartner Karl Baumgartner (1949 – 18 March 2014) was a German film producer. He worked on more than 70 films between 1991 and 2014. Selected filmography * '' Life on a String'' (1991) * '' Underground'' (1995) * ''Dance of the Wind'' (1997) * ''Bl ...

, German producer *

Silvia Ferreri Silvia () is a female given name of Latin origin, with a male equivalent Silvio and English-language cognate Sylvia. The name originates from the Latin word for forest, ''Silva'', and its meaning is "spirit of the wood"; the mythological god of ...

, Italian actress * Hisham Al Ghanim, Kuwaiti filmmaker * Rahmatou Keita, Nigerien director and screenwriter * Eugen Serbanescu, Romanian editor and screenwriter * Wayne Drew, English critic

Arab Competition

* Jean Chamoun, Lebanese director (President) *

Djamila Sahraoui Djamila Sahraoui (born 1950) is an Algerian filmmaker. Djamila Sahraoui was born in Algiers on 23 October 1950. She studied literature before attending the renowned Parisian film school IDHEC (Institut des hautes études cinématographiques), sp ...

, Algerian director * Sherif Mounir, Egyptian actor *

Sawsan Badr Susan Badr ( ar, سوسن بدر) (nicknamed: The Nefertiti of Egyptian Cinema) (born September 25, 1959) is an Egyptian actress of film, stage and television. She received the Best Actress Award at the 34th Cairo International Film Festival. S ...

, Egyptian actress * Daoud Aoulad-Syad, Moroccan director

Awards

The winners of the 2008 Cairo International Film Festival were: *

: '' Retorno a Hansala'' by

Chus Gutiérrez María Jesús "Chus" Gutiérrez (born 1962) is a Spanish director, writer, and actress. Gutiérrez has experiences of moving back and forth between Spain and the United States, which influenced her filmmaking, as her films are known for discussing ...

* Sliver Pyramid: ''

Los LOS, or Los, or LoS may refer to: Science and technology * Length of stay, the duration of a single episode of hospitalisation * Level of service, a measure used by traffic engineers * Level of significance, a measure of statistical significance ...

'' by Jan Verheyen * Best Director:

Pernille Fischer Christensen Pernille Fischer Christensen (born 24 December 1969) is a Danish film director and the older sister of actress Stine Fischer Christensen. She started out in the movie business when she was 20 years old as an assistant to . During that time, Gis ...

for ''

Dansen ''Dansen'' is a short play by German playwright and dramatist Bertolt Brecht (1898–1956) written in 1939. Although not as widely recognized and produced due to its short length, the play is a good representation both of Brecht's writing style an ...

'' * Saad El-Din Wahba Prize (Best Screenplay): ** Bram Renders for ''

'' **

Safy Nebbou Safy Nebbou (born 27 April 1968) is a French actor and director. Life and career Nebbou was born on 27 April 1968 in Bayonne, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, France to a German mother and an Algerian father. He is the brother of actor Mehdi Nebbou. He ...

& Cyril Gomez-Mathieu for '' L'empreinte de l'ange'' * Best Actor:

Juan Diego Botto Juan Diego Botto Rota (born 29 August 1975) is an Argentine-Spanish film, stage and television actor. Born in Argentina, he moved to Spain together with his mother (the actress and acting coach Cristina Rota) in 1978. Following early film appe ...

for ''

El Greco Domḗnikos Theotokópoulos ( el, Δομήνικος Θεοτοκόπουλος ; 1 October 1541 7 April 1614), most widely known as El Greco ("The Greek"), was a Greek painter, sculptor and architect of the Spanish Renaissance. "El G ...

'' * Best Actress:

Yolande Moreau Yolande Moreau (born 27 February 1953) is a Belgian comedian, actress, film director and screenwriter. She has won three César Awards from four nominations. Career She made her cinematic debut with director Agnès Varda in two movies: Sept piè ...

for '' Séraphine'' * Naguib Mahfouz Prize (Best Second Work):

for '' L'empreite de l'ange'' * Youssef Chahine Prize (Best Artistic Contribution): Oliver Pavlus for ''

Tandoori Love ''Tandoori Love'' is a 2008 Swiss comedy film about the misadventures of an Indian cook named Raja in Switzerland. The film, directed by Oliver Paulus, was called Switzerland's first "Bollywood film". It premiered at the 2008 Goa film festival. ...

'' * Special Mention: ** ''

Finding Shangri-La Find, FIND or Finding may refer to: Computing * find (Unix), a command on UNIX platforms * find (Windows), a command on DOS/Windows platforms Books * ''The Find'' (2010), by Kathy Page * ''The Find'' (2014), by William Hope Hodgson Film and t ...

'' by Ismene Ting (For Cinematography) ** '' Los girasoles ciegos'' by

José Luis Cuerda José Luis Cuerda Martínez (18 February 19474 February 2020) was a Spanish film director, screenwriter and Film producer, producer. He was born in Albacete and died on 4 February 2020 at the age of 72 in Madrid from an embolism. He won four Goy ...

* Best Arabic Film: '' Mascarades'' by

Lyes Salem Lyès Salem (Arabic: إلياس سالم) (Algiers, 1966) is an Algerian actor and film director. His first film as director, Masquerades, won several prizes in France. Filmography As director * ''Lhasa'' short 1999 * '' :fr:Cousines'' short. ...

* Best Arabic Screenplay: ** Rachid Masharawy for '' Laila's Birthday'' **

Basra Basra ( ar, ٱلْبَصْرَة, al-Baṣrah) is an Iraqi city located on the Shatt al-Arab. It had an estimated population of 1.4 million in 2018. Basra is also Iraq's main port, although it does not have deep water access, which is hand ...

for '' Ahmed Rashwan'' * Golden Award for Digital Films: ''

Nokta ''Nokta'' ("Point" in Turkish) was a leading Turkish weekly political news magazine. Founded in 1983, it was closed down by its owner in 2007 under military pressure after revealing several coup plots. Revived in 2015, it was closed again in th ...

'' by

Derviş Zaim Derviş Zaim (born Derviş Zaimağaoğlu in 1964) is a Turkish Cypriot filmmaker and novelist, who has twice won the Golden Orange for Best Director for '' Elephants and Grass'' (2000) and ''Dot (2008)''; Golden Oranges for Best Film and Best Sc ...

* Silver Award for Digital Films: ''

Goodbye Goodbye, Good bye, or Good-bye is a parting phrase and may refer to: Film * ''Goodbye'' (1918 film), a British drama directed by Maurice Elvey * ''Goodbye'' (1995 film) (''Tot Ziens!''), a Dutch film directed by Heddy Honigmann * ''Goodbye'' ...

'' by Bunyo Kimura *

FIPRESCI Prize The International Federation of Film Critics (FIPRESCI, short for Fédération Internationale de la PRESse CInématographique) is an association of national organizations of professional film critics and film journalists from around the world fo ...

for '' Retorno a Hansala''

External links

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