Tamer El Said
Publisher
Big World Pictures
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Arabic
Description
Khalid Abdalla (The Kite Runner, The Square) plays the protagonist of Tamer El Said's ambitious feature debut, a filmmaker in Cairo attempting to capture the zeitgeist of his city as the world changes around him-from personal love and loss to the fall of the Mubarak regime. Throughout, friends send footage and stories from Berlin, Baghdad, and Beirut, creating a powerful, multilayered meditation on togetherness, the tangible hold of cities, and the...
Publisher
Big World Pictures
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Arabic
Description
The debut feature of filmmaker Tamer El Said tells the fictional story of a filmmaker from downtown Cairo as he struggles to capture the soul of a city on edge while facing loss in his own life. Shot in Cairo, Beirut, Baghdad, and Berlin during the two years before the outbreak of revolution in Egypt, the film's multi-layered stories are a visually rich exploration of friendship, loneliness, loss, and life in cities shaped by shadows of war and adversity....
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