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Cairo Film Festival Rejects Israeli Entry
[AFP] Organizers of the Cairo International Film Festival have loudly opposed an application by Eran Kolirin's "The Band's Visit," a fictional tale of an Egyptian police band that gets stranded in Israel. The director said his movie, which won praise at the Munich and Cannes film festivals, sends a strong pro-peace message, but Soheir Abdel Kader, the festival's vice president, said: "It is out of the question that an Israeli film plays here." A solid "anti-normalization" front exists in Egypt's cultural circles which reject collaboration or contact with Israeli artists or intellectuals, despite a peace deal signed between Egypt and Israel in 1979.