'The Mountain Between Us' to open up CIFF

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Tue, 21 Nov 2017 - 11:04 GMT

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dris Elba and Kate Winslett cross the mountains. Screencap via 20th Century Fox Youtube Channel

dris Elba and Kate Winslett cross the mountains. Screencap via 20th Century Fox Youtube Channel

CAIRO – 21 November 2017: The

39th Cairo International Film Festival

, starting on Tuesday November 21 and running until Thursday November 30, will kick off with a film screening of the survival drama "The Mountain Between Us."

Starring

Kate Winslet

and Idris Elba, the film is directed by Academy Award nominee Hany Abu-Assad. This drama adventure story follows two strangers who find themselves the survivors of a plane crash in the harsh wilderness of a snowy mountain. With rescue looking more and more unlikely, the pair must learn to work together. As they grow closer, a passionate bond begins to develop between them. "The Mountain Between Us" was released on October 6, 2017.

Abu-Assad is a Palestinian/Dutch filmmaker born in Israel, and is best known as the director of two Oscar-nominated films, 2005’s "Paradise Now" and 2013’s "Omar."

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