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Draft:Portal:African cinema/Selected_article/1 The Cairo International Film Festival (CIFF) (Arabic: مهرجان القاهرة السينمائي الدولي) is an annual internationally accredited film festival held in Cairo Opera House. CIFF is one of only 15 Festivals accorded as a category "A" status by the International Federation of Film Producers Associations FIAPF. It is the oldest and only internationally accredited cultural feature film festival in the Arab World, Africa and the Middle East.

CIFF was launched in 1976 by the writer-critic Kamal el-Mallakh to enhance the role of Egypt in the world of filmmaking and cinema and to serve as a bridge between the cultures of the world.

Egypt has enjoyed a strong cinematic tradition since the art of filmmaking was first developed, in 1896. Egypt is famously called Hollywood of the East among the Arab World for its long reputable filmmaking history of more than 120 years, wide-reach to more than 400 million Arab speakers and inhabitants in the Middle East, and strong influence on all the Arab Nation by its Art production of thousands of Film Pictures, Series, Theatre Plays and Music. It is common and very well known since the rising of the filmmaking industry in early 1920s in Egypt that any aspiring Arab artist of any related art field has to fly to Cairo to be able to reach and make it to the whole Arab World.


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The Cairo International Film Festival (CIFF) (Arabic: مهرجان القاهرة السينمائي الدولي) is an annual film festival held at the Cairo Opera House. Established in 1976 by the Egyptian Association of Film Writers and Critics it is one of the oldest in the Arab world and Africa, and is the only festival in the region given category “A” status by the International Federation of Film Producers Associations (FIAPF).

The creation of the festival was prompted by a visit to the Berlin Film Festival in 1975 by the writer-critic Kamal El Mallakh and a group of like-minded cinema critics who questioned why a similar world-class festival didn’t exist in Egypt. The country was still in Egyptian cinema's "Golden Age" and its film industry the biggest in the Arab world. The festival offers cash prizes and awards in various categories.

The highest award endowed is the Golden Pyramid Award for Best Picture. The Silver and Bronze Pyramid awards are given for the Best Director and Best New Director, respectively. Recent Golden Pyramid winners include I’m No Longer Here  (2019) and Limbo (2020). The 45th edition of the film festival in 2023 was canceled due to the Israel-Hamas war.


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The Africa Movie Academy Awards, popularly known as the AMA Awards, is an annual event to recognize excellence among professionals working in, or non-African professionals who have contributed to, the African film industry. AMAA was founded by Peace Anyiam-Osigwe in 2005 and is run by the Africa Film Academy. Often referred to as the “African Oscars” its most recent Best Film winners include Tug of War (2021) a Tanzanian political drama film; The Gravedigger’s Wife (2021), Five Fingers for Marseille (2019), a South African Neo-Western thriller; and Felicite (2018), a Senegalese film set in the Democratic Republic of Congo which won a record six awards.

AMAA is currently accepting submissions for feature, film shorts, animation, and documentary work for consideration in nearly 30 film categories on the occasion of its 20th edition awards show later this year.


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