The Arabic Ibero-American film festival, Entre Cineastas (Among Filmmakers), celebrates in Cairo it’s fifth year with the Spanish Agency for International Cooperation for Development (AECID), the Spanish embassy in Cairo, the Cervantes Institute in Cairo, Kultura Communicatio Desarrollo (KCD) film screenings, workshops and cross-cultural activities from 27 - 31 May.

Within it's five short years, Entre Cineastas has been around the globe in no less than 20 countries. 

According to their press release, Entre Cineastas seeks and has been able to create a ground for Arab and Ibero-American female directors to gather and dialogue. The common language it uses to break cultural barriers is "film; in all its diverse forms, which mirrors the diversity of the participants' cultures."

Entre Cineastas' film screenings come from Spain, Egypt, Peru, Argentina, Lebanon, Chile, Morocco, Syria, Venezuela, Qatar, United Arab Emirates and Cuba.

Programme:

Sunday 27 May
8pm: Artistic Creativity Centre, Opera House grounds, Zamalek
Opening ceremony
La Camera Obscura (La camera Obscura) Spain/Germany, 2011, 90 min.

Monday 28 May
6pm: Artistic Creativity Centre, Opera House grounds, Zamalek
El Chico que Miente (The Kid Who Lies), Venezuela/Peru, 2011, 99 min.

7pm: Cervantes Institute, 20 Boulos Hanna Street, Dokki
Short films from the workshop Mujeres en Correspondencia (Women in Correspondence)
Insubordinadas (Insubordinates) Cairo/Buenos Aires, Argentina
Interrogantes (Interrogators) Cairo
Mujeres (Women) Cairo/Granada, Spain/Mexico

8pm: Artistic Creativity Centre, Opera House grounds, Zamalek
Vale, Ya Está, Vámonos, (Fine, Done, Let's Go) Docudrama, United Arab Emirates/Lebanon, 2010, 93 min.

Tuesday 29 May
6pm: Creativity Centre, Opera House grounds, Zamalek
Tango, Argentina, 2005, 87 min.

7pm: Cervantes Institute, 20 Boulos Hanna Street, Dokki
Short films from the workshop Mujeres en Correspondencia (Women in Correspondence) 
El Otro (The Other) Cairo/Granada, Spain

8pm: Creativity Centre, Opera House grounds, Zamalek
12 Libaneses Enfadados (12 Angry Lebanese), Lebanon, 2010, 78 min.

Wednesday, 30 May
6pm: Creativity Centre, Opera House grounds, Zamalek
Quisiera Contarles (I Would Like to Tell You) Morocco/France, 2005, 62 min.
Villa El Salvador (El Salvador Villa) France/Peru, 2009, 52 min.

8pm: Creativity Centre, Opera House grounds, Zamalek
El Tejado de Damasco y los Cuentos del Paraíso (Syria's Roof and Paradise Stories) Syria/Qatar, 2010, 51 min.
En el Cuerpo Equivocado (In the Wrong Body) Cuba, 2010, 52 min.

Thursday 31 May

6pm: Creativity Centre, Opera House grounds, Zamalek
Cortometrajes Libaneses (Lebanese Short Films) Lebanon, 2010, 63 min.
En Algún Lugar del Cielo (In Some Place in Heaven) Chile, 2003, 60 min.     

8pm: Creativity Centre, Opera House grounds, Zamalek
Bahrain: Gritando en la Oscuridad (Bahrain: Screaming in the Dark) Bahrain/Qatar/UK, 2011, 51 min.
En la Sombra de un Hombre (In the Shadow of a Man), Egypt, 2011, 65 min.