Egypt

Cairo International Film Festival

The Cairo International Film Festival, first held in 1976, is one of the oldest and most prominent film festivals in the Arab world and Africa. Its top prize is the Golden Pyramid.

Winners of the Cairo International Film Festival (Egypt), year by year. Names link to the film or person page when they are on Sinekatalog. Compiled from Wikidata.

Best Film

32 years listed (1991–2025); some years may be missing from the source data.

Year	Film	Director / winner
2025	Dragonfly	Paul Andrew Williams
2024	The New Year That Never Came	Bogdan Mureșanu
2022	Alam	Firas Khoury
2021	The Hole in the Fence	Joaquín del Paso
2020	Limbo	Ben Sharrock
2019	I'm No Longer Here	Luis Fernando Frías de la Parra
2018	A Twelve-Year Night	Álvaro Brechner
2017	The Intruder (2016)	Diego Jorquera
2016	Mimosas	Óliver Laxe
2015	Mediterranea	Jonas Carpignano
2014	Melbourne	Nima Javidi
2012	Rendezvous in Kiruna	Anna Novion
2010	Lust	—
2009	Letters to Father Jacob	Klaus Härö
2008	Return to Hansala	Chus Gutiérrez
2007	Intimate Enemies	Florent-Emilio Siri
2006	The Road (2006)	Zhang Jiarui
2005	Mother of Mine	Klaus Härö
2004	Guardians of the Clouds	Luciano Odorisio
2003	The King (2005)	—
2002	The Last Blues	Péter Gárdos
2001	Pauline and Paulette	—
2000	Sigh	—
1999	A Considerable Disturbance	Bernard Stora
1998	Malli	Santosh Sivan
1997	The Chambermaid on the Titanic	Bigas Luna
1996	A Girl Called Apple	Raafat El Mehi
1995	The Flor Contemplacion Story	Joel Lamangan
1994	Colonel Chabert	Yves Angelo
1993	Curfew	—
1992	Those Left Behind	Hu Xueyang Yun Yu
1991	The Object of Beauty	Michael Lindsay-Hogg