# 31st Cairo International Film Festival

The 31st annual Cairo International Film Festival was held from November 27 to December 7, 2007. English director Nicolas Roeg was the president of the jury.

## Films in competition

The following films competed for the Golden Pyramid.
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Country |
| The Seventh Heaven | ألوان السما السبعة | Saad Hendawi | Egypt |
| On Air | ع الهوا | Ihab Lamei | Egypt |
| Intimate Enemies | L'ennmie intime | Florent Emilio Siri | France |
| No Mercy | Nincs kegyelem | Elemér Ragályi | Hungary |
| Life in a Metro | | Anurag Basu | India |
| I, the Other | Io, l'altro | Mohsen Melliti | Italy |
| Opera | Ópera | Juan Patricio Riveroll | Mexico |
| Waiting For Pasolini | في انتظار باسوليني | Daoud Aoulad-Syad | Morocco |
| The Lost Beauty | الجمال المفقود | Lahcen Zinoun | Morocco |
| In The Name of God | خدا کے لیے | Shoaib Mansoor | Pakistan |
| Ataul: For Rent | | Neal 'Buboy' Tan | Philippines |
| Jasminum | Jaśminum | Jan Jakub Kolski | Poland |
| An Angel Hooked On Me | Îngerul necesar | Gheorghe Preda | Romania |
| A Full Breath | Полное дыхание | Valery Pendrakovsky | Russia |
| Moon in the Bottle | La luna en Bottella | Grojo | Spain |
| Kicks | | Albert Ter Heerdt | Netherlands |
| Waiting For Heaven | Cenneti Beklerken | Derviş Zaim | Turkey |
| And When Did You Last See Your Father? | | Anand Tucker | United Kingdom |
| Seachd: The Inaccessible Pinnacle | | Simon Miller | Scotland |

## Digital Competition

The following films were screened in the Digital Competition for Feature Films category.
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Country |
| Ararat: 14 Views | | Don Askarian | Armenia |
| The Deal | El trato | Francisco Norden | Colombia |
| LaBoom! Exclusive | LaBoom! Exklusiv | Jeffery Berlin Green | Germany |
| Sovia: Death Hospital | | Robert Franke | Germany |
| Quijates | | Rimmo Paladino | Italy |
| House of the Sleeping Beauties | 眠れる美女 | Akemi Tachibana | Japan |
| Marrakech Inshallah | | Steffen Pierce & Christian Pierce | Morocco |
| Little Moth | 血蝉 | Peng Tao | China |
| The High Cost of Living | | Leonard Lai Yok Wai | Singapore |
| The Englishman | | Ian Sellar | United Kingdom |
| American Combatant | | Charles Libin | United States |
| For Never | | Adam Zayed | United States |

## Arab Competition

The following films were screened in the Arab Competition for Feature Films category.
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Country |
| The Yellow House | البيت الأصفر | Amor Hakkar | Algeria/ France |
| Délice Paloma | | Nadir Moknèche | Algeria/ France |
| Summer of '62 | Cartouches Gauloises | Mehdi Charef | Algeria/ France |
| Demons of Cairo | الغابة | Ahmed Atef | Egypt |
| Girls | بلد البنات | Amr Bayoumi | Egypt |
| The Seventh Heaven | ألوان السما السبعة | Saad Hendawi | Egypt |
| On Air | ع الهوا | Ihab Lamei | Egypt |
| Caramel | سكر بنات | Nadine Labaki | Lebanon |
| Waiting for Pasolini | في انتظار باسوليني | Daoud Aoulad-Syad | Morocco |
| The Lost Beauty | الجمال المفقود | Lahcen Zinoun | Morocco |
| The Satanic Angels | ملائكة الشيطان | Ahmed Boulane | Morocco |
| Out of Coverage | خارج التغطية | Abdellatif Abdelhamid | Syria |
| I.D. | الهوية | Ghassan Chmeit | Syria |

## Films out of competition

The following films were screened out of the competition.
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Country |
| Warden of the Dead | Пазачът на мъртвите | Ilian Simeonov | Bulgaria |
| Upside Down | Превртено | Igor Ivanov Izy | Macedonia |
| Boxes | | Jane Birkin | France |
| In the Name of Father | به نام پدر | Ebrahim Hatamikia | Iran |
| Preserve | Rezerwat | Łukasz Palkowski | Poland |
| Attack On Leningrad | Ленинграда | Aleksandr Buravsky | Russia |
| Rendition | | Gavin Hood | United States |
| A Mighty Heart | | Michael Winterbottom | United States |

## Awards

The winners of the 2007 Cairo International Film Festival were:
* Golden Pyramid: L'ennmie intime by Florent Emilio Siri
* Silver Pyramid: Khuda Kay Liye by Shoaib Mansoor
* Best Director: Florent Emilio Siri for L'ennmie intime
* Saad El-Din Wahba Prize (Best Screenplay): Albert Ter Heerdt for Kicks
* Best Actor: Albert Dupontel for L'ennmie intime
* Best Actress:
** Marina Magro for Ópera
** Tatyana Lyutaeva for Polnoe Dykhanie
* Naguib Mahfouz Prize (Best Directorial Debut): Juan Patricio Riveroll for Ópera
* Youssef Chahine Prize (Best Artistic Contribution): Derviş Zaim for Cenneti Beklerken
* Special Mention: Matthew Beard for And When Did You Last See Your Father? (For Acting)
* Best Arabic Film: Waiting For Pasolini by Daoud Aoulad-Syad
* Arabic Film Special Mention:
** The Seventh Heaven by Saad Hendawi
** Caramel by Nadine Labaki
* Golden Award for Digital Films: Xue chan by Peng Tao
* Silver Award for Digital Films: The Englishman by Ian Sellar
* FIPRESCI Prize: Juan Patricio Riveroll for Ópera