The lineup and configuration of the revived Cairo Film Festival is starting to shape up with a mix international and Arab films, including the world premiere of “Wall of Heroism,” by Mohamed Rady, a war pic shot in 1998 but never released for political reasons.
“Heroism” is about the lead-up to and the events of the Arab-Israeli October War in 1973 and has reportedly been banned by the Egyptian military.
The 17 Arab pics unspooling in Cairo also comprise, among other titles, the Middle East premiere of Palestinian director Najwa Najjar’s life-under-occupation drama “Eyes of a Thief”; Emirati director Noujom Al-Ghanem’s “Red Blue Yellow”; Egyptian helmer Ahmad Abdalla’s big-budget psychodrama “Decor”; and Syrian documentary “Silvered Water, Syrian Self Portrait,” co-directed by Ossama Mohamad and Wiam Simav Bedirxa.
David Cronenberg’s “Maps to the Stars”; Jean-Luc Godard’s “Goodbye to Language”; John Boorman’s “Queen and Country”; and Volker Schlondorff’s...
“Heroism” is about the lead-up to and the events of the Arab-Israeli October War in 1973 and has reportedly been banned by the Egyptian military.
The 17 Arab pics unspooling in Cairo also comprise, among other titles, the Middle East premiere of Palestinian director Najwa Najjar’s life-under-occupation drama “Eyes of a Thief”; Emirati director Noujom Al-Ghanem’s “Red Blue Yellow”; Egyptian helmer Ahmad Abdalla’s big-budget psychodrama “Decor”; and Syrian documentary “Silvered Water, Syrian Self Portrait,” co-directed by Ossama Mohamad and Wiam Simav Bedirxa.
David Cronenberg’s “Maps to the Stars”; Jean-Luc Godard’s “Goodbye to Language”; John Boorman’s “Queen and Country”; and Volker Schlondorff’s...
- 10/25/2014
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety - Film News
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