The Cairo Video Festival is a platform to start a conversation between video-artists, curators, and the public, and a space for artists to showcase their innovative, low-budget video art productions that are selected according to quality, authenticity, and conviction in their investigation of subject matter.

Through twenty days of screenings, artists' talks, and discussions the Cairo Video Festival fosters this growing public interest in new media production and experimentation to expose audiences to artists and concepts from around the world.

The festival is Medrar’s first contribution to the art scene in 2005 and is the project through which Medrar was later established. It started as a collective of visual artists who were experimenting with a new medium and took initiative to establish themselves in the space in which their works, along with works from all over the world, would be shown in the heart of this vigorous city.

Medrar for Contemporary Art launches its call for the 11th edition of Cairo Video Festival, which will be held in December 2024\. The festival continues its focus on providing a platform for sharing and discussing newly produced video art and experimental film. Programs will be screened in conventional and non-conventional venues, in theater and exhibition spaces to promote, expand and harvest attention to the practice. 

  
The 11th edition of Cairo Video Festival culminates many steps and stages that represent our experiences with video art and experimental film, and also summarizes our recurrent inquiries about the relationship between artistic expression and the reality we live in, the current events and our eagerness to experiment and add new and different values ​​with each edition. It is an opportunity that we yearn for with every edition to witness these innovations, experiences and new concepts from around the world, and to share them with the public.

  
The call for submission is directed towards video artists and experimental filmmakers from various technical fields. We also encourage designersand developers who work in the fields of virtual reality, animation, interactive softwares**,** and artistic games via the Internet, computers or smartphones to respond to the call. Likewise, those who emphasize the use of the moving image in their installations or live performances. Curators and institutions involved in the production and distribution of video art and experimental film are encouraged to submit their programs. The festival’s program takes the format of a series of showcases, accompanied by talks and discussions with active video-makers and curators to tackle some of the key themes and issues addressed in the works.
  
  

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