In the Last Days of the City

Fiction, director: Tamer El Said, Egypt/Germany/UK/UAE, 2016, 119 min., Arab. with En. ST

> 27.04.2023 | 21.30 | City Kino Wedding |

In the presence of director Tamer El Said.

Downtown Cairo, 2009. 35-year-old filmmaker Khalid (Khalid Abdalla) is struggling to make a film that captures the soul of his city while facing loss in his own life. With the help of his friends, who send him footage from their lives in Beirut, Baghdad and Berlin, he finds the strength to keep going through the difficulty and beauty of living in the last days of the city. A sumptuous feature debut starring Khalid Abdalla (The Kite Runner, The Crown) on a crisis-laden city as it weighs on the verge of a revolution.