In the Last Days of the City (Akher ayam el madina)
Synopsis
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2016 - Debate Strand
Details
- Year
- 2016
- Type of film
- Features
- Running time
- 118 mins
- Director
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Tamer El Said 1st Feature
- Producer
- Tamer El Said, Khalid Abdalla, Hana Al Bayaty, Michel Balagué, Marcin Malaszczak, and Cat Villiers
- Editor
- Mohamed Abdel Gawad, Vartan Avakian, Barbara Bossuet
- Screenwriter
- Tamer El Said, Rasha Salti
- Director of Photography
- Bassem Fayad
- Production Designer
- Salah Marei
- Sound
- Sound Designer, Sound Recordist: Victor Bresse; Sound Mixer: Mikaël Barre
- Composer
- Amélie Legrand, Victor Moïse
- Principal cast
- Khalid Abdalla, Laila Samy, Hanan Youssef, Maryam Saleh, Hayder Helo, Basim Hajar, Bassem Fayad
- Funding
- Made with the financial support of The World Cinema Fund, SANAD - The Development and Post-Production Fund of twofour54 Abu Dhabi, AFAC - The Arab Fund for Arts and Culture, Cinereach, The Ford Foundation, The Global Film Initiative, The Cultural Resource, Fonds Francophone Audiovisuelle du Sud, Cultural Department of the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Cairo, Goethe-Insitut Cairo. The film is also a recipient of the 2015 Torino Film Lab World Distribution Award, the 2010 Carthage CNC Prize for Work In Progress, and the 2014 Takmil JCC Post-Production award (Journées Cinématographiques de Carthage).
Genre
Categories
Production Status
Production Company
Egypt, UK, Germany, United Arab Emirates coproduction
Zero Production (Egypt), Sunnyland Film (Egypt), Autonomous (UK), Mengamuk Films (Germany)
Autonomous
Cat Villiers10 Orange Street
London
WC2H 7DQ
Sales Company
Still Moving
Pierre Menahem6 rue Boissonade
75014 Paris
France
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