31st Cairo International Film Festival
 31st CIFF Official Poster | |
| Location | Cairo, Egypt |
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| Founded | 1976 |
| Awards | Golden Pyramid |
| Festival date | November 27 – December 7, 2007 |
| Website | http://www.cairofilmfest.org/ |
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.
Digital Competition
The following films were screened in the Digital Competition for Feature Films category.
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Country |
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| Ararat: 14 Views | Don Askarian |  Armenia
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| The Deal | El trato | Francisco Norden |  Colombia
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| LaBoom! Exclusive | LaBoom! Exklusiv | Jeffery Berlin Green |  Germany
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| Sovia: Death Hospital | Robert Franke | Germany
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| Quijates | Rimmo Paladino |  Italy
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| House of the Sleeping Beauties | 眠れる美女 | Akemi Tachibana |  Japan
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| Marrakech Inshallah | Steffen Pierce & Christian Pierce |  Morocco
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| Little Moth | 血蝉 | Peng Tao |  China
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| The High Cost of Living | Leonard Lai Yok Wai |  Singapore
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| The Englishman | Ian Sellar |  United Kingdom
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| American Combatant | Charles Libin |  United States
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| For Never | Adam Zayed | United States
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Arab Competition
The following films were screened in the Arab Competition for Feature Films category.
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Country |
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Films out of competition
The following films were screened out of the competition.
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Country |
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| Warden of the Dead | Пазачът на мъртвите | Ilian Simeonov |  Bulgaria
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| Upside Down | Превртено | Igor Ivanov Izy |  Macedonia
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| Boxes | Jane Birkin |  France
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| In the Name of Father | به نام پدر | Ebrahim Hatamikia |  Iran
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| Preserve | Rezerwat | Łukasz Palkowski |  Poland
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| Rendition | Gavin Hood | United States
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| A Mighty Heart | Michael Winterbottom | United States
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Juries
International Competition
- Nicolas Roeg, English director (President)
- Zhang Jingchu, Chinese actress
- Hesham Selim, Egyptian actor
- Sandra Nashaat, Egyptian director
- Ildikó Enyedi, Hungarian director
- Tilde Corsi, Italian producer
- Moon So-ri, South Korean actress
- Jillali Ferhati, Moroccan director and screenwriter
- Krzysztof Zanussi, Polish director and screenwriter
- Mahamat Saleh Haroun, Chadian director
- Nurgül Yeşilçay, Turkish actress
Digital Competition
- Mohamed Abdel Aziz, Egyptian director (President)
- Michel Alexandre, French Screenwriter
- Tilman Scheel, German CEO
- Antonio Pizzo, Italian professor
- Naky Sy Savané, Ivoirian actress
- Peter Scarlet, American director of Tribeca Film Festival
Arab Competition
- Ahmed Al Maanouni, Moroccan director (President)
- Mofeeda Tlati, Tunisian director
- Jamal Soliman, Syrian actor
- Hala Khalil, Egyptian director
- Samir Farag, Egyptian cinematographer
Awards
The winners of the 2007 Cairo International Film Festival were: