India will participate with three movies in the 38th Cairo International Film Festival to be held here next month. The movies will participate in three different categories in the festival, which will run from November 15-24 during which over 200 films will be screened. “The Narrow Path” by Satish Babusenan and Santosh Babusenan will be screened in the ‘International’ competition, while “Half Ticket” by Samit Kakkad will be screened in the ‘International panorama’ category. The third movie, “Lipstick Under My Burka” by Alankrita Shrivastava, will be shown during the ‘Festival of Festivals’ competition. “I welcome the Indian participation at the Cairo International Film Festival as I truly believe that Bollywood and Egyptian Cinema must have even closer links and the participation of movies in festivals in each other countries is one way of doing this,” India’s Ambassador to Egypt Sanjay Bhattacharyya told PTI.

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