2-15 December
17th Kasr El Nil Street, Cairo, 202 Egypt
Tel: 3923562/3923862
Fax: 393 8979
Festival director: Saad Eldin Wahba
Competition
Golden Pyramid
Previous winner: The Flor Contemplacion Story (Joel Lamangan) (Phillippines)
Forum for the International Co-financing of Documentaries (Amsterdam)
2-4 December
Kleine-Gartmanplantsoen 10, 1017 RR Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Tel: +31-20-627 3329
Fax: +31-20-638 5388
XVIII International Festival of New Latin American Cinema (Havana)
3-13 December and DEC 2-12, 1997
Calle 23, No 1155, Vedado, La Habana 10600, Cuba
Tel: +53-7-34169/36072
Fax: +53-7-334 273
E-mail: festival@cenial.cu
website: http://www.rce.com.mx/cuba/
Festival director: Alfredo Guevara
Festival programmer: Iván Giroud
Competition & Market
Coral Prize
Previous winner: El Callejón de los Milagros (Arturo Ripstein)
MECLA (Havana)
3-11 December
Calle 23, No 1155, Vedado, La Habana 10600, Cuba
Tel: +53-7 333 862/304 666
Fax: +53-7 333 3032
MECLA director: Francisco Leon
Market
Rencontres d’Annecy du Cinema Italien
3-8 December
Bonlieu Scene Nationale, 1 rue Jean Jaures, BP 294, F-74007 Annecy, France
Tel: +33-50 33 44 00
Fax: +33-50 51 82 09
Festival director: Daniel Sonzini
Festival programmer: Pierre Todeschini
Competition
Grand Prix des Rencontres
Previous winner: Empoli 1921: film in rosso e nero (Ennio Marzocchini)
4-10 December 1996
2-8 December 1997
Via Tirso 90, I-Rome 00198, Italy
Tel: +39-6-884 8030
Fax: + 39-6-884 0450
Festival director: Giorgio Gosetti
Competition
Mystery Award
Previous winner: Justino, un asesino de la tercera edad (La Cuadrilla) (Spain)
MIP-ASIA (Hong Kong)
5-7 December
Reed Midem Organisation, 11 rue du Colonel Pierre Avia, F-75015, Paris, France
Tel: +33-1-41 90 45 80
Fax: +33-1-41 90 45 70
Market director: André Vaillant
Market
Echo Television & Radio Awards (Dublin)
9 December
Echo Awards Secretariat, Media Natura, 21 Tower Street, London WC2H 9NS, UK
Tel: +44-171 240 4936
Fax: +44-171 240 2291
E-mail: medianatura@gn.apc.org
Festival director: Amanda Duncan-Smith
Competition
New Awards scheme
PIA Film Festival (Tokyo)
December (dates tbc)
5-19 Sanban-cho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 102, Japan
Tel: +81-3-32 65 14 25
Fax:+81-3-32 65 56 59
Festival director: Keiko Araki
Market & Competition
PFF Award Grand Prize (¥1 million)
Previous winner: Goodbye Movie (Natsuko Ohtsuki)
Taormina International Film Festival
December (tbc)
Via Pirandello 31, 98039 Taormina, Italy
Tel: +39-942-21142/637 28195
Fax: +39 942 23348
Festival director: Enrico Ghezzi
ist of all Film Festivals 12/96 Worldwide
Cairo International Film Festival