Cairo Time [dir. Amir Ramses]

  • À l'heure du Caire (Cairo Time) [dir. Amir Ramses]
Type : Fiction
Original title :
Principal country concerned : Column : Cinema/tv
Year of production : 2014
Format : Feature
Running time : 110 (in minutes)

Six Characters, three stories taking place in modern day Cairo… A retired actress looking for redemption from her past by demanding a divorce from a fictitious marriage she had with an actor in a film based on a fanatic religious fatwa… a couple attempting to make love for their first time struggling with social and religious boundaries … an old man who has Alzheimer's escaping his family to look for the last fragment of his lost memory who ends up taking a journey with a compulsive liar yet sensible drug dealer. The six characters find themselves at decisive points of their lives, which although disparate, are brought together by destiny, and are delivered through pitch-perfect performances by Egyptian cinema's legends.

Dir: Amir Ramses

Egypt | 2014 | 110 mins | Feature

Starring Nour El-Sherif and Mervat Amin.

cairo time trailer subtitled from amir ramses on Vimeo.



2015 | Arab Film Festival Australia | Syndey / Melbourne / Canberra | 13-30 Augut 2015
* Australian Premiere
* Screening: Saturday 15 August - Riverside Theatres Parramatta, 8pm
* Screening: Sunday 23 August - Cinema Nova Carlton, 3pm
* Screening: Saturday 29 August - National Film and Sound Archive Acton, 6:30pm
http://arabfilmfestival.com.au/film/cairo-time/


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Tre parallella historier utspelar sig under en och samma dag i Kairo. Lila, en pensionerad skådespelerska letar efter Samen, hennes sista skådespelarpartner. Salma dejtar Wael och de befinner sig i en väns lägenhet efter ett gräl. Hazem är en ung knarkhandlare som på väg från Alexandria till Kairo plockar upp en gammal man med alzheimer. Karaktärerna är alla i en situation då de måste ta viktiga beslut i sina liv och trots att de inte tycks ha något gemensamt för ödet dem samman. Cairo Time är ett mångfacetterad filmporträtt framställt genom träffsäkra insatser av den e yptiska filmens stora legender, liksom nya hyllade talanger.

Egypt / 2014 / Arabic dialogue with Swedish subtitles / 115 minutes / Genre: Drama, Comedy


Feature Film Competition - Cairo Time

cairotime-01
Egypt / 2014 / Arabic dialogue with Swedish subtitles / 115 minutes / Genre: Drama, Comedy

SYNOPSIS-01
Tre parallella historier utspelar sig under en och samma dag i Kairo. Lila, en pensionerad skådespelerska letar efter Samen, hennes sista skådespelarpartner. Salma dejtar Wael och de befinner sig i en väns lägenhet efter ett gräl. Hazem är en ung knarkhandlare som på väg från Alexandria till Kairo plockar upp en gammal man med alzheimer. Karaktärerna är alla i en situation då de måste ta viktiga beslut i sina liv och trots att de inte tycks ha något gemensamt för ödet dem samman. Cairo Time är ett mångfacetterad filmporträtt framställt genom träffsäkra insatser av den e yptiska filmens stora legender, liksom nya hyllade talanger.

ENG: Taking place over a single day, Cairo Time is the multigenerational story of six characters. Lila, a retired actress looking for Sam, her last acting partner. Salma is dating Wael and they are in a friend's apartment after an argument. Hazem is a young drug dealer who on his way from Alexandria to Cairo picks up an old man with Alzheimer's. The characters are all in a situation where they have to take important decisions in their lives and although they do not seem to have anything in common, fate brings them together. Cairo Time is a multifaceted film portrait brought out through pitch-perfect performances by Egyptian cinema's legends, as well as new acclaimed film talents.

CASTCREDITS-01
Director: Amir Ramses
Script: Amir Ramses
Producer: Sameh Alagamy
Cast: Nour Al Sherif, Mervat Amin, Samir Sabry, Sherif Ramzy, Aten Amer, Karim Kassem
DOP: Mohammed Abdelraouf
Composer: Khaled Hammad
Production: Image Media Production

2015 | Malmö Arab Film Festival - MAFF 2015
* Feature Film Competition
http://maffswe.com/feature-film-competition-cairo-time/

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