Egyptian Timelines 2
Combined programme
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IFFR 2012
In the past year, images – professional and amateur – of the streets of Cairo, Alexandria and other cities in Egypt have filled the newspapers, and our TV and computer screens. How can we contextualise what we are seeing, and place those images within a larger socio-historical, visual and cultural context? These are the questions we aim to address in the Egyptian Timelines programme.
In this combined programme
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Blue Dive
In this story about brief encounters set in the Mediterranean Alexandria, the filmmaker sheds his light on death and compares it to the sea. -
Another Passion
Narrative film in which Yossry portrays her own struggle to study cinema, and the confrontations she had with her family. -
Local Copy
We follow four young people through Alexandria en route to the square outside the Bibliotheca Alexandrina. It slowly becomes apparent what this meetin -
Maydoum
A poised and elegantly executed ensemble piece of understated, emotionally-nuanced brilliance. Second short film by independent filmmaker Omar Robert -
In the Last Days of the City (Trailer)
The lives of a group of friends from Egypt, Iraq and Lebanon have been shaped by their cities of birth and the instability of their… -
Neon Lamp
An exceptional debut in which Maher – who spent two years working on this project – gave sound an important role in the telling of…