The 21st Cairo International Children’s Film Festival opened yesterday, 23 March, at the Cairo Opera House and will be ongoing until 30 March.
The festival opened with the Dutch film Fuschia the Mini-Witch and honoured Palestinian filmmaker Rashid Mashharawy as well as Egyptian actors Hanan Turk, Hany Ramzy and Karim Abdel Aziz.
The festival, which is organised by the Ministry of Culture, is hosting 68 countries this year with Greece as its guest of honour.
This year 21 films are participating in the feature and short film section, while 54 films are participating in the animated film section. Some 20 films will be competing in the documentary film category.
Programme:
Sunday, 25 March:
Open Theatre at the Cairo Opera House
Screenings of Danish Films from 9am-1 pm
Small Theatre at the Cairo Opera House
The Rain Fairy (Czech) 9am
A Thousand Times Stronger (Sweden) 11am
Monday, 26 March:
Open Theatre at the Cairo Opera House
Screenings of African Films from 9am-1 pm
Small Theatre at the Cairo Opera House
Fimfarum Third Time Lucky (Czech) 9am
Bacalar (Switzerland) 11am
And Ghandi Goes Missing (India) 12.45pm
Tuesday, 27 March:
Open Theatre at the Cairo Opera House
Screenings of Egyptian and Arab films from 9am–1pm
Small Theatre at the Cairo Opera House
Havana Station (Cuba) 9am
Missing (Jordan) 11am
Moomins and the Comet Chase (Finland) 11.30am
Wednesday, 28 March:
Open Theatre at the Cairo Opera House
Screenings of Greek films from 9am-1pm
Small Theatre at the Cairo Opera House
Krish Trish and Balti Boy 2 (India) 9am
The Boy and the Tree (Greece) 10.30am
Sparrow (Russia) 11.30am
Thursday, 29 March:
Open Theatre at the Cairo Opera House
Screenings of animated films from different countries from 9am-1pm
Small Theatre at the Cairo Opera House
Fuschia the Mini-Witch (Netherlands) 9am
The Star of the Sea (China) 11am
Fantasia of the Threads (Egypt)
Friday, 30 March:
Open Theatre at the Cairo Opera House
Screenings of Slovak films from 9am-1pm
Small Theatre at the Cairo Opera House
Fish for Thought (India) 9am
Buta (Azerbaijan) 10am
Who is There (Slovak) 11.30am
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