Schedule
Google Sheet
Rules
* You may vote for a minimum of 5 and a maximum of 20 titles.
* Feature films, documentaries, shorts, made-for-tv movies, direct-to-video movies, TV mini-series, and TV episodes from anthology series are all eligible.
* One country per film - IMDB is used as a guideline, but Fergenaprido will be the final arbiter for uncertain cases.
* All ballots are considered ranked unless otherwise stated.
* You must include a list of bare imdb URLs along with your ballot (preferably within a spoiler tag), otherwise your ballot will be disqualified.
Scoring
For ranked ballots, the top-ranked title will receive the number of points equal to the number of titles on the ballot, with each successive title receiving one point less.
I.e. A list with 20 titles means #1 has 20 points, #2 has 19 points, and #20 has 1 point; a list with 5 titles means #1 has 5 points, #2 has 4 points, and #5 has 1 point.
For unranked ballots, each title will receive an equal share of the total points that would have been allotted it the ballot had been ranked.
I.e. A list with 20 titles means each title would receive 10.5 points; a list with 5 titles means each title would receive 3 points.
Resources:
Egyptian films sorted by number of votes*
Egyptian films sorted by your rating on imdb*
Wikipedia article on Cinema of Egypt
*due to imdb allowing films to be attributed to more than one country, many titles in this filter may be ineligible for this poll if Netherlands is not the primary country of production. Decisions about uncertain films will be listed in the second post of this thread.
Many thanks to Rufus-T & gromit82 for the framework from the Year by Year polls, and to maxwelldeux for the Excel template.
Participants:
Fully ranked lists of 20 titles unless otherwise indicated
(unranked)
(2 ineligibles)
(12 titles)
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. This 'short-sighted' mindset led to our talking images episode on short film bigotry - 
- to be fair, that seems to be the ONLY older Egyptian short that has been even close to "widely" seen - most of the others that come up when you search for Egyptian shorts are pretty new and I haven't delved into any of them. Maybe I will now that I'm thinking about it, though I can't say the ones that I've read descriptions of seem that enticing.
STILL the Gaffer!