The Cairo Intl. Film Festival opened this year not by looking outward, but inward, highlighting the expansive archive of Egyptian classics undergoing restoration. During the ceremony, audiences were shown striking before-and-after footage of restored films such as Hossam El Din Mostafa’s “A Crime in a Quiet Neighborhood” and Kamal Al-Sheikh’s “Sunset and Sunrise,” drawing audible reactions as decades-old images re-emerged with new clarity and texture. For CIFF president Hussein Fahmi , the