Cairo international film festival 2020
Movies screening at the festival 2020
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- DirectorFlorian ZellerStarsAnthony HopkinsOlivia ColmanMark GatissA man refuses all assistance from his daughter as he ages. As he tries to make sense of his changing circumstances, he begins to doubt his loved ones, his own mind and even the fabric of his reality.
- DirectorMiwa NishikawaStarsKôji YakushoSeiji RokkakuYukiya KitamuraA lifelong Yakuza, released from prison after 13 years, journeys to find the mother who abandoned him as a child. He is hindered by his gangster past and struggles to adapt to his new life outside of prison.
- DirectorXiaofeng LiStarsYu ZhangJia SongYanhui WangAn escaped convict for negligent homicide returned to hometown after 15 years, only to be haunted by his past, and got mixed up in a scheme involving the daughter of his victim.
- DirectorLudovic BoukhermaZoran BoukhermaStarsAnthony BajonChristine GautierLudovic TorrentIn a rural French town, twenty-something Teddy is scratched by an unknown beast and slowly undergoes frightening changes.
- DirectorIvan OstrochovskýStarsSamuel SkyvaSamuel PolakovicVlad IvanovTwo students of a theological seminary in totalitarian Czechoslovakia must decide if they'll choose the easier way of collaboration, or if they'll subject themselves to the surveillance of the secret police.
- DirectorBastian GüntherStarsDouglas M. GriffinDavid M. WelchJoe ColeIn a small town in Texas, an annual endurance contest (Hands On) to win a pickup truck promises thrilling entertainment to spectators and the chance of a lifetime to participants, but ends in real tragedy.
- DirectorBassam TariqStarsRiz AhmedAiysha HartAnjana VasanA British Pakistani rapper is on the cusp of his first world tour, but is struck down by an illness that threatens to derail his big break.
- DirectorMauro ManciniStarsAlessandro GassmannSara SerraioccoLuka ZunicThe son of a Holocaust survivor who lives in Trieste as a surgeon begins to doubt his actions of refusing to help a victim of a traffic accident that he encountered on his way home from work.
- DirectorAmir RamsesStarsIlham ShaheenAmina KhalilAhmed MagdyThe events take place in the fall of 2013 after the curfew decision in Egypt, where Fatin is released from prison after spending 20 years for committing a horrific crime. As she's forced to spend the night with her daughter Layla, who subject her to a second trial in search of unanswered questions.
- DirectorMichel FrancoStarsNaian González NorvindEligio MeléndezMónica Del CarmenA lavish high-society wedding unexpectedly turns into a class struggle that leads to a violent coup.
- DirectorJoão Paulo Miranda MariaStarsAntonio PitangaAna Flavia CavalcantiSam LouwyckCristovam, a native from the brazilian hinterland, works in a milk factory in a former Austrian colony in Brazil. He feels lonely, ostracized by cultural and ethnic differences. One day, he discovers an abandoned house filled with objects that remind him of his origins. He slowly settles in this house. Curiously, more objects start to appear without explanation, as if the place was "alive".
- DirectorIslam El AzzaziStarsNadah El ShazlyFadwa AbedSalah FahmiShe rejects grief as a reaction to loss. Instead confronting her misery face on and pushing herself to the brink, clinging to a flood of magic she experienced as a child as it flows across time from person to person and story to story.
- DirectorMahmoud KamelStarsEman El-AssyHala El-SaidSharif SalamahWhen a family moves into an old castle, excitement at their new home soon morphs into horror after the house appears to turn against them.
- DirectorChristos NikouStarsAris ServetalisSofia GeorgovassiliAnna KalaitzidouAmidst a worldwide pandemic that causes sudden amnesia, middle-aged Aris finds himself enrolled in a recovery program designed to help unclaimed patients build new identities.
- DirectorJuanma Bajo UlloaStarsRosie DayHarriet Sansom HarrisNatalia TenaA young drug addict gives birth during a mental breakdown. Unable to properly care for the child, she sells him to a strange woman in the child trade business.
- DirectorAnthony Scott BurnsStarsJulia Sarah StoneLandon LiboironCarlee RyskiA teenage runaway takes part in a sleep study that becomes a nightmarish descent into the depths of her mind and a frightening examination of the power of dreams.
- DirectorFanny LiatardJérémy TrouilhStarsAlseni BathilyLyna KhoudriJamil McCravenYuri fights to save his home town - which he shares with his namesake, Yuri Gagarin - from demolition.
- DirectorChloé ZhaoStarsFrances McDormandDavid StrathairnLinda MayA woman in her sixties, after losing everything in the Great Recession, embarks on a journey through the American West, living as a van-dwelling modern-day nomad.
- DirectorLili HorvátStarsNatasa StorkViktor BodóBenett VilmányiMárta, a forty-year-old neurosurgeon, falls in love. She leaves her shining American career behind and returns to Budapest to start a new life with the man. But the love of her life claims they have never met before.
- DirectorAdam OldroydStarsLes DennisAnthony HeadApril PearsonWhen two inept criminals break into the home of a washed-up psychic in search of hidden loot, they get a lot more than they bargained for.
- DirectorDanilo CaputoStarsYile Yara VianelloEspedito ChionnaFeliciana SibilanoNica, 21, drops out of her university course in agronomics and returns home to Apulia in southern Italy after three years away. She finds her father deep in debt, a polluted, devastated region, and olive trees destroyed by a parasite. Everyone seems to have given up in the face of the vast ecological disaster, while her father is obsessed with uprooting the olive grove to make money from the land. Nica fights with all her might to save the ancient trees. But the pollution has also contaminated people's minds, and she will have to face unexpected obstacles.
- DirectorChaitanya TamhaneStarsAditya ModakArun DravidSumitra BhaveSelf-doubt, sacrifice and struggle converge into an existential crisis for a devoted classical vocalist as the mastery he strives for remains elusive.
- DirectorHicham AmalStarsZakaria AtifiHasan BadidahHicham BahloulA successful music composer loses his memory in a car crash. He gradually starts to remember everything and his life returns to normal. However, months later, he realizes that he cannot remember how he used to create music...
- DirectorGiovanni AloiAndrea BaroneStarsAnthony BajonKarim LeklouLeïla BekhtiIn the streets of Paris, three soldiers from Operation Sentinel are on patrol. On the lookout, they await imminent but invisible danger.
- DirectorMona FastvoldStarsKatherine WaterstonVanessa KirbyCasey AffleckSomewhere along the mid-19th century American East Coast frontier, two neighboring couples battle hardship and isolation, witnessed by a splendid yet testing landscape, challenging them both physically and psychologically.