Cairo in Frames: 9 Films Portraying the City
Highlighting its joys and tribulations, these films boldly paint an honest portrait of Egypt’s beloved metropolis.
In Welsh, the world ‘hiraeth’ denotes an intense and unyielding feeling of nostalgia towards a home, place, or era that no longer exists, and can no longer be returned to for one reason or another, and while the word has no direct translation in English, perhaps a very similar word in Arabic is ‘haneen.’ And that, ‘haneen’, is perhaps one of the very few universal feelings that all Cairenes experience daily.
Fast-paced and transient, life in Cairo feels perpetually fleeting, and often-times we find ourselves reminiscing about a Cairo whose frame has long played to make path to newer settings. Immortalizing life in Cairo, these films highlight its streets, stories, peoples, and places - the good, the bad, and the beautifully mundane. Following a variety of Cairenes navigating different compelling plots, the movies listed below share one common denominator: an exploration of Cairo, its streets, and its proverbial underbelly.
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