33rd Cairo International Film Festival

The 33rd annual Cairo International Film Festival was held from November 10 to November 20, 2009. Indian director Adoor Gopalakrishnan was the president of the jury.

Films in competition

The following films competed for the Golden Pyramid.

English title	Original title	Director(s)	Country
Luisa		Gonzalo Calzada	Argentina
I Believe In Angels	Vjerujem u Anđele	Niksa Svilicic	Croatia
The Nile Birds	عصافير النيل	Magdy Ahmed Ali	Egypt
Letters to Father Jackob	Postia Pappi Jaakobille	Klaus Härö	Finland
The Hedgehog	Le hérisson	Mona Achache	France
Slaves in Their Bonds	Οι Σκλάβοι στα Δεσμά τους	Adonis Lykouresis	Greece
The Days of Desire	Vágyakozás Napjai	Jósef Pacskovszky	Hungary
Madholal Keep Walking		Jai Tank	India
New York		Kabir Khan	India
The Friends at the Margherita Cafe	Gli amici del bar Margherita	Pupi Avati	Italy
Vortex	Duburys	Gytis Luksas	Lithuania
Crossword Destinies	فينك اليام	Driss Chouika	Morocco
Tiny Dust, True Love		Shen Dong	China
Splinters	Drzazgi	Maciej Pieprzyca	Poland
Amália		Carlos Coelho da Silva	Portugal
One War	Одна Война	Vera Glagoleva	Russia
I Saw The Sun	Güneşi Gördüm	Mahsun Kırmızıgül	Turkey

The following films were screened in the Digital Competition for Feature Films category.

English title	Original title	Director(s)	Country
(Un)Lucky	زهر	Fatma Zohra Zamoum	Algeria
Open Diaries		Sasha A. Schriber	Canada
Exile in Paris	Paris d'exil	Ahmet Zirek	France
C.V. Attached	Im Anhang: Lebenslauf	Andrea Schorr	Germany
Tenderness	Τρυφερότητα	Panagiotis Karamitsos	Greece
Witches Circle	Boszorkanykor	Dizso Zsigmond	Hungary
First Time	Mudhal Mudhal Mudhal Varai	Krishnan Seshardi Gomatam	India
The Rapture of Fe	Ang Panggagahasa Kay Fe	Alvin Yapan	Philippines
Contract	Contrato	Nicolau Breyner	Portugal
Wait For Me and I Will Not Return	Čekaj me, ja sigurno neću doći	Miroslav Momcilovic	Serbia
Xtrems		Abel Folk, Joan Riedweg	Spain
New Year's Eve		Jhake R. Wells	Switzerland
The Watcher	Bekçi	Özcan Tekdemir	Turkey
Godforsaken		Jamil Dehlavi	United Kingdom

The following films were screened in the Arab Competition for Feature Films category.

English title	Original title	Director(s)	Country
Journey to Algiers	رحلة الى الجزائر	Abdelkrim Baloul	Algeria
Heliopolis	مصر الجديدة	Ahmad Abdalla	Egypt
The Nile Birds	عصافير النيل	Magdy Ahmed Ali	Egypt
Tale of a Mchaouchi Wrestler	موسم المشاوشة	Mohamed Ahed Bensouda	Morocco
Crossword Destinies	فينك اليام	Driss Chouika	Morocco
Amreeka	أمريكا	Cherien Dabis	Palestine/ United States
Pomegranates and Myrrh	المر و الرمان	Najwa Najjar	Palestine
The Long Night	الليل الطويل	Hatem Ali	Syria
Thirty	ثلاثون	Fadhel Jaziri	Tunisia
Buried Secrets	أسرار دفينة	Raja Amari	Tunisia
A Very Beautiful Trip	سفرة يا محلاها	Khaled Ghorbal	Tunisia/ France

The following films were screened out of the competition.

English title	Original title	Director(s)	Country
A Fly in the Ashes	La mosca in la ceniza	Gabriela David	Argentina
Forever waiting	Hoy no se f��a, mañana sí	Francisco Avizanda	Spain/ France
Cairo Time		Ruba Nadda	Canada
The Traveller	المسافر	Ahmed Maher	Egypt
Teza		Haile Gerima	Ethiopia/ France/ Germany
Marchal	MR 73	Olivier Marchal	France
A Widow at Last	Enfin veuve	Isabelle Mergault	France
Client (A French Gigolo)	Cliente	Josiane Balasko	France
Home		Yann Arthus-Bertrand	France
Lost Times	Utolsó idők	Áron Mátyássy	Hungary
Dawn of the World	فجر العالم	Abbas Fahdel	France/ Germany/ Iraq
Casanegra	كزانكرا	Nour Eddine Lakhmari	Morocco
Ward No. 6	Палата № 6	Karen Shakhnazarov	Russia
Day of Defeated	Dehb nepemome hux	Yamburskiy Valeriy	Ukraine
The Soloist		Joe Wright	United Kingdom/ United States/ France
New Town Killers		Richard Jobson	United Kingdom
The Limits of Control		Jim Jarmusch	United States/ Japan

The winners of the 2009 Cairo International Film Festival were: