Steven Spielberg’s ‘The Fabelmans’ To Open Cairo Movie Competition; New Group Unveils 2022 Line-Up – Deadline

Steven Spielberg’s semi-autobiographical, coming-of-age drama The Fabelmans has been introduced because the opening movie of forty fourth Cairo Worldwide Movie Competition, working from November 13 to 22.

This yr’s version of the historic Egyptian pageant will unfold beneath the path of a brand new administration crew following the departure of former head Mohamed Hefzy in March.

Veteran actor Hussein Fahmy returns as president on the pageant, a job he held prior to now, whereas revered Egyptian movie programmer Amir Ramses has taken up the baton of inventive director.

This yr’s major Worldwide Competitors options Egyptian filmmaker Ahmad Abdalla’s 19B, Palestinian director Firas Khoury’s Alam, Butterfly Imaginative and prescient by Ukraine’s Maksym Nakonechnyi and Love In accordance To Dalva by Belgium’s Emmanuelle Nicot.

As beforehand introduced, Naomi Kawase will preside over the principle jury. Freshly introduced jury members embody Egyptian cinematographer Nancy Abdelfattah, Indian actress Bhasker, Egyptian music composer Rageh Daoud, Italian actress Stefania Casini, Mexican filmmaker Joaquin Del Paso and Moroccan actor Samir Guesmi.

“The start of the journey with the Cairo Worldwide Movie Competition (CIFF) was an enormous duty for me, a younger cinema fan who intently adopted the pageant the place I used to be launched to the numerous worlds of cinema, and later as a filmmaker whose movies had been screened twice in its cinemas,” mentioned Ramses.

“Being appointed able, which was taken by many prestigious names on high of which is my valued mentor, the late movie critic and programmer Youssef Cherif Rizkallah, was a technique to give again and pay my respect to an establishment that made me the filmmaker I’m as we speak earlier than it was a brand new step in my skilled profession.”