Cairo will be among eight other cities across the world to host the Shnit International Short Film Festival (Shnit) in October, which will mark the fourth consecutive time for the Egyptian city.

The 13th annual festival will begin internationally held Oct. 7-18, while the portion in Cairo, which will be organized by a new Shnit Egyptian team, will be held between Oct. 8-11.

“With its steadily growing reputation for the finest short film fare, shnit has made its mark as a festival not to be missed, and established Cairo as a force to be reckoned with on the global short film scene,” the festival’s official website said.

The screenings in Cairo will be held in different venues across the city, including the Room Art Space, Rawabet, Teatro Maadi, Netherlands-Flemish Institute and the Cinema Radio.

In addition to the cinematic screenings, the festival in Cairo will also include special screenings, happy hours and concerts to add the famous celebratory feel of the festival to the Cairo "playground," as the selected cities are called.

The Cairo playground, whose Egyptian partners include MAD Solutions and Ninteen84, will bring to its audience a selection of international films from Shnit’s "Tenshnit Open," "SHNIT Documents," "SHNIT Animates," "Feel Good" and "Heavy SHNIT" categories, as well as a selection of Arab and Egyptian films.

Shnit is one of the most unique international film festivals and one of the most prominent for short films in the world.

In addition, it brings together more than 30,000 filmmakers and film enthusiasts every year for fun and exciting activities that are usually unheard of in the festival world, which is normally very formal.

The festival consists of three main components, the Shnit Playgrounds, which last five days in each selected city, the Shnit Cinemas that host the selected films around the world and finally the Finale Awards Ceremony that is held in New York to close the festival.

In the ceremony, total cash prizes of $100,000 are given to the winners of the Shnit Open international short film competition. 7,000 short films from 163 countries were entered in 2014.