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Cairo film festival opens its 47th edition at the Opera House

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The 47th Cairo International Film Festival opened at Cairo Opera House on 11 November 2026, with Hussein Fahmy serving as president. On-site reporting and the Opera House calendar document the opening.

Cairo Opera House.
Cairo Opera House, archive uploaded in 2006; does not show the 2026 ceremony. ThutmoseIII, CC BY-SA 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ ; unmodified. — ThutmoseIII / Wikimedia Commons — CC BY-SA 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ ; archive 2006, sans modification.

Screenings are scheduled until 20 November. Peter Farrelly’s American film I Play Rocky was chosen for the opening, according to reports from the evening.

The ceremony forms part of celebrations marking fifty years since the festival’s foundation in 1976. That anniversary is distinct from the edition number, the 47th.

Reports describe guests arriving on the red carpet and the ceremony taking place. The opening starts the event; it does not establish competition winners or final attendance figures.

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