The Silver Jubilee of the Cairo International Film Festival

The First festival

-The first festival was held on 16th of August 1976.

-Prime Minister at the time Mamdouh Salem inaugurated it.  The festival’s president was Youssef el Sebaai, the honorary president of the Critics and Film Writers’ Association, which was founded by critic Kamal el Malakh in 1973.  The association sponsored the festival.

-23 Arab and foreign countries participated in the festival and the sum of all films this year was 88, 28 of which participated in the official contest and 28 in the Egyptian film panorama.  The movie shown at the opening was “Beware the theater” (ehzar al masrah).

-James Curtis headed the judge panel and Shady Abd El Sallam was among the judges.  The film “The accused” (al mozneboon) was awarded Best Film and Best Director:  director Said Marzouk and Emad Hamdy was awarded Best Actor.  Among the guests of this festival were Italian actress Claudia Cardinale and Italian director Dino Fenery.

 

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