UW Cinematheque - Premiere Showcase
In the Last Days of the City - Tamer El Said in Person! | Egypt | 2016 | DCP | 118 min. | Arabic with English subtitles Director: Tamer El Said
Event Details
Date
Saturday, September 22, 2018
Time
7 p.m.
Location
4070 Vilas Hall
Description
Cast: Khalid Abdalla, Laila Samy, Hanan Youssef
On the cusp of the 2011 Egyptian revolution, an overwhelmed young filmmaker (The Kite Runner’s Khalid Abdalla) struggles to complete a project about Cairo. This reflexive drama of creative stalemate and political alienation has won comparisons to 1960s masterworks 8 1/2 and Memories of Underdevelopment, but as an immersive portrait of a city in flux, it discovers poetry entirely its own. Director Tamer El Said will be present for a Q&A after.
On the cusp of the 2011 Egyptian revolution, an overwhelmed young filmmaker (The Kite Runner’s Khalid Abdalla) struggles to complete a project about Cairo. This reflexive drama of creative stalemate and political alienation has won comparisons to 1960s masterworks 8 1/2 and Memories of Underdevelopment, but as an immersive portrait of a city in flux, it discovers poetry entirely its own. Director Tamer El Said will be present for a Q&A after.
Cost
Free
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