Laila
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.
Writer
A documentary about an egyptian lady who works in a local beauty center, her husband who doesn't work, her ambitions and dreams and suffering
Director
A documentary about an egyptian lady who works in a local beauty center, her husband who doesn't work, her ambitions and dreams and suffering
Laila
Adapted from the short story " Let's play a game " by the Italian writer Alberto Moravia . It's a strange story between a little girl and her divorced mother They are playing a game and the girl starts to persuade the mother, to provoke her curiosity . The adult woman gets stunned , She finds herself talking and hearing as if she becomes possessed by another one It is a moment where both of them exchange their authorities, unearth many of closed secrets.
Youssef is a hotshot anesthesiologist who often sleeps in his car for privacy. Laila is the careerist host of a late night radio call-in show. These two members of Cairo's elite, lost souls traveling parallel paths of longing and disconnection, are the principal fish in Yousry Nasrallah's The Aquarium, a meditation on the intellectual capital of the Middle East, now bent under the sway of repression in all its forms.
Cairo: um edifício de 70 anos de idade, apartamentos de luxo com cortiços no telhado. Zika, um libertino envelhecido, briga com sua irmã. Pius Haj Azzam leva uma segunda esposa, em segredo, para satisfazer o desejo sexual dentro de limites religiosos. Bothayna, pobre e bonita, sustenta sua família, querendo fazê-lo com dignidade intacta. Seu ex-noivo, Taha, filho do zelador, humilhado pela polícia, volta-se para o fundamentalismo. Hatem, um editor gay, seduz e corrompe um jovem das varas. Dois irmãos, coptas, um alfaiate e um factotum de Zika, coniventes por propriedades. Allah está na maioria dos lábios de todos, e a corrupção está em seus corações.
The film revolves around a man who can spend all of his life in a difficult life by lying and cheating. He is connected to a girl who seeks to marry him and is disappointed to be associated with another man until he finds himself alone, which causes him to continue the monument again.
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Egyptian short film starring Laila Samy
