Al-Ahram Weekly On-line
10 - 16 December 1998
Issue No.407
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Plain talk
By Mursi Saad El-Din

Festive finale? As Cairo's film festival closes, director Hussein Fahmi looks forwards while others look back
Hussein Fahmi

Just wait till next time
Hussein Fahmi, actor and, more importantly for the moment at least, director of the Cairo Film Festival, has been busier than ever. What, though, has all the activity achieved? He spoke to Hani Mustafa

Nassim Al-Rouh Feigning the fantastic
Syrian director Abdel-Latif Abdel-Hamid speaks to Hani Mustafa about past successes and his latest project 		A kind of paradise
The emotions, controversy and political implications of joint European-Arab history engage Algerian film-makers, writes Hosni Abdel-Rehim
Fabricated richness
In which Injy El-Kashef misreads the schedule and drowns beneath the icing
Rossini Keeping a distance
David Blake joins the paradise express 		A taste of Italian vintage
Nehad Selaiha welcomes the Egyptian premiere of Eduardo De Filippo's Filumena Marturano at the National as a refreshing change