In the Last Days of the City

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Product Description IN THE LAST DAYS OF THE CITY is the debut feature of filmmaker Tamer El Said. It tells the fictional story of a filmmaker from downtown Cairo played by Khalid Abdalla (The Kite Runner, The Square) 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 the shadows of war and adversity. Review Without doubt, the most important film in Egyptian cinema, if not Arab cinema, in a very long time. --Jean-Michel Frodon, SlateA plangent, multi-layered dirge to the sensory overload of Cairo and the way it has irrevocably changed... A melancholic love-hate poem to Cairo and the role of filmmakers in any city in pain. --Jay Weissberg, VarietyMajestic... a lionhearted elegy for the Egyptian capital, artistic heritage in the Arab world, inspired politics, and hope itself. --Kaelen Wilson-Goldie, Artforum P.when('A').execute(function(A) { A.on('a:expander:toggle_description:toggle:collapse', function(data) { window.scroll(0, data.expander.$expander[0].offsetTop-100); }); }); About the Actor Khalid Abdalla (Khalid) is an actor who works across fields, as a producer and filmmaker but also in cultural production and alternative media. He has acted in leading roles in films including Paul Greengrass's United 93 and Green Zone, Marc Forster's The Kite Runner, Tala Hadid's The Narrow Frame of Midnight, and Danis Tanovic's Tigers. His upcoming films include: Susanna White's Our Kind of Traitor, Justin Kurzel's Assassin's Creed and Farouk Sabanovic's Birds Like Us - in which he plays a bat. In documentary film, he has producing credits on Hanan Abdalla's In the Shadow of a Man and the film by Hanan Abdalla & Cressida Trew, The Vote. He also appears as himself in Jehane Noujaim's Oscar nominated The Square. Khalid is a founding member of three collaborative intitiatives in Cairo: Cimatheque, Zero Production and Mosireen. Born in Glasgow and brought up in London, he lives in Cairo. About the Director Tamer El Said is a filmmaker living between Berlin and Cairo, where he was born in 1972. He studied filmmaking and journalism and went on to make many documentaries and short films that received several international and local awards. He was also teaching at the High Cinema Institute in Cairo between 1999 and 2003. In 2002, he took on the role of Senior Producer and Artistic Consultant for Nile Productions, moving to Hot Spot Films in Dubai in 2003. His time as Senior Producer at Hot Spot saw the company expanded dramatically, producing 250 documentaries in 58 countries, and winning several international awards. Tamer founded Zero Production in 2007 to produce independent films. He is also a founder of Cimatheque - Alternative Film Centre in Egypt, a multipurpose space that provides facilities, training and programming for the independent filmmaking community. El Said has also run mentoring workshops in many international film and art spaces including, among others, the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) in London, the School of the Art Institute in Chicago (SAIC) and Silent Green in Berlin. See more