In the Last Days of the City
- Feature
- 2016
- 118 Minutes
- Egypt
- Language: Arabic
Downtown Cairo, 2009. Khalid, a 35 year old filmmaker 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.
Director: Tamer El Said
Screenwriter: Tamer El Said, Rasha Salti
Production Company: Exit Productions
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Awards
BERLIN film festival, Caligari Prize, GermanyVILNIUS Film Festival, Lithuania
BAFICI Film Festival: Best Director, Argentina
Toronto International Film Festival
VALLETTA Film Festival
NEW HORIZONS Film Festival: Grand Prix
MELBOURNE Film Festival
CALGARY Film Festival, Canada
rio de janeiro film festival
ARAB CAMERA FEST
LONDON Film Festival
CHICAGO Film Festival
CAMBRIDGE Film Festival
Cast and Crew
Screenwriter: Tamer El Said, Rasha Salti
DOP / Camera: Bassem Fayad
Editor: Mohamed A. Gawad Vartan Avakian, Barbara Bossuet
Music: Amélie Legrand Victor Moïse
Sound: Mikael Barre, Victor Bresse
Producer: Tamer El Said, Khalid Abdalla
Cast: Khalid Abdalla, Laila Samy, Mohamed Gaber, Zeinab Mostafa
Director
Tamer El Said
Tamer El Said is a filmmaker living in Cairo where he was born in 1972. He studied filmmaking in the High Cinema Institute – Cairo and journalism in Cairo University. He went on to make many documentaries and short films that received several international and local awards. Tamer founded Zero Production in 2007 to produce independent films. He also founded, along with others, Cimatheque – Alternative Film Centre in Egypt. In the Last Days of the City is his first feature length film.