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Film Screening of In the Last Days of the City by Tamer El Said

In the Last Days of the City by Tamer El Said
Feature | Egypt Germany United Kingdom |2016 |118 min
In Arabic with English subtitles

Post-screening discussion with director, Tamer El Said moderated by Negar Taymoorzadeh, PhD Candidate, Cinema Studies, New York University.

Doors Open at 6:30 pm

Film Synopsis

In the Last Days of the City is Tamer El Said's debut feature. 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 films multi-layered stories are a visually rich exploration of friendship, loneliness, loss and life in cities shaped by the shadows of war and adversity.

About the Filmmaker

Tamer El Said is a filmmaker, screenwriter and producer living between Berlin and Cairo where he was born in 1972. Having studied filmmaking and journalism, he went on to make many documentaries and short films that garnered several national and international awards.

El Said taught 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 across to Hot Spot Films in Dubai in 2003. As Senior Producer at Hot Spot, El Said oversaw the company's dramatic expansion, producing 250 documentaries in 58 countries, and winning several international awards.

El Said founded Zero Production in 2007 to produce independent films. He also founded Cimatheque - Alternative Film Centre in Egypt, a multipurpose space that provides facilities, training and programing for the independent filmmaking community. He has also held 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.

About the Co-sponsors

Alwan for the Arts is supported, in part, by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, the New York State Council of the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature and by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts.

3rd i NY Film Programming is made possible in part with public funds from the Fund for Creative Communities, supported by New York State Council on the Arts, and the Manhattan Community Arts Fund, supported by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, both in partnership with the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. We thank Alwan for the Arts for hosting our film screenings and to the SINGH Foundation for acting as our fiscal sponsor.