Takmil : Les films sélectionnés

In the last days of the city ( EGYPT - Fiction )

Synopsis

In the fading grandeur of downtown Cairo, Khalid, a 35-year-old filmmaker is struggling to make a film that captures the pulse of his city at a moment when all around him dreams as much as buildings are disintegrating. 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.

Statement of intent

I finished shooting in December 2010. Six weeks later the entire world was watching Cairo. It seemed that we were living what we had been longing to happen for years. Now, four years later I am finishing the film wondering how these images can feel so close and yet so far and how nothing seems to change while everything is changing.

Biography

Tamer El Said lives in Cairo where he was born in 1972. He studied filmmaking and journalism and went on to direct many documentaries and short films that received many international and local awards. In 2007, Tamer founded Zero Production to produce independent films. He is currently co-founding the Cimatheque - Alternative Film Centre in Cairo, to support independent and alternative cinema in Egypt.