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Cairo International Film Festival: Today's highlights
Published in Daily News Egypt on 05 - 12 - 2006

Hide and Seek (Egypt)
With an original storyline and a cast of first-time actors, Emad El-Bahat s feature debut might end up being the dark horse of the competition.
GoodNews9:00 pm Summer Heat (US)
Feeling lonely and neglected by her overworked husband, Roxy, a Depression-era farm wife, is drawn into an ill-advised affair with Jack, their hired hand.
City Stars 27:00 pm Marriage, Iranian Style (Iran)
A romantic-comedy - a genre mostly forgotten in Iranian cinema - the film depicts an Iranian family with all their unique rituals and traditions. Shirin Sar-poulaki, the beloved girl of a trusted, influential man in the old Carpet Market in Bazaar, Haj Ebrahim, leads a quiet, ordinary life, but when his uncle insists on and convinces her father to agree with some conditions, she begins working in an air travel agency to confront the sweet agonies of her life. She goes to work in her uniform, while her destiny comes to her for the first time. A young American boy comes to the agency to buy a ticket to Shiraz, and that s it: Love in the first sight as portrayed in any fable and fairy tale. The story has just begun; Haj Ebrahim disagrees to give her daughter s hand to a foreigner - especially an American.
Artistic Creativity Center4:00 pm Princess (Denmark)
The 32-year-old clergyman August returns home from years of missionary work abroad because of the death of his sister Christina, who - after going from greatness to the gutter as the famous porno star The Princess - has finally died of drug abuse. She has left her five-year-old daughter Mia with Karen, a prostitute. August pays them a visit to bring Mia home with him and become her guardian.Burdened by sorrow and guilt, he decides to avenge Christina's death and brings Mia along on a crusade to clear his sister's name of pornographic connotations. The mission escalates into a brutal and violent rout as August attempts desperately to protect the only thing he holds dear - Mia - forcing him to make a fateful decision.
Small Theatre, Cairo Opera House5:30 pm


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