 33rd CIFF Official Poster | |
| Location | Cairo, Egypt |
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| Founded | 1976 |
| Awards | Golden Pyramid |
| Festival date | November 10–20, 2009 |
| Website | http://www.cairofilmfest.org/ |
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.
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 fía, 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 | |
International Competition
| Digital Competition
| Arab Competition
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