Cairo International Film Festival has become the first festival in the Arab world to sign the 5050 by 2020 gender equality charter, which aims to achieve equity in film in a host of areas — most notably, gender — by the year 2020. Sixty international film festivals are already signatory, Emirates Woman reports. Cairo International Film Festival will hold a special screening of Saudi Arabian filmmaker Shahad Ameen’s film Scales to mark its commitment to the charter.

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