The awards of the 46th Cairo International Film Festival (CIFF) have been announced, with British filmmaker Paul Andrew Williams taking out the top prize, the Golden Pyramid, for Dragonfly in
Egypt
... no matter how humane and enlightening the film may be, it suffers to some extent from the lack of a clear cinematic form.
In The Judgment, from writer/director Marwan Mokbel, US based couple Mo (Junes Zahdi) and Hisham (Freddy Shahin) return to Egypt to reconnect with family, though both are understandably in the
What begins as a study of self-acceptance in the face of reawakening past trauma soon builds into psychological horror, complete with dissonant score and obligatory jump scares.






