SPLA : Portal to cultural diversity
RDC-Cultures

Cairo As Seen by Chahine

  • Caire vu par Chahine (Le) | Al-Qahira menauwwara bi ahlaha
Genre : Social
Type : Documentary
Original title : Cairo Seen By Youssef Chahine
Principal country concerned : Column : Cinema/tv
Year of production : 1991
Format : Short
Running time : 22 (in minutes)

A portrait of a city by a filmmaker passionately engaged with its past, present, and future.


Chahine mixes documentary and fiction to create a portrait of Egypt's bustling capital and a major center of the Arab world. The view of Cairo that emerges is a chaotic jumble of poverty, overcrowding, opulence and surging religious intolerance that results in a kaleidoscopic image recalling silent-era "city symphonies" and Fellini's "Roma".

Directed by Youssef Chahine.

Egypt 1991, 35mm, color, 22 min. Arabic with English subtitles


Source : http://hcl.harvard.edu/hfa/films/2009janfeb/chahine.html


FESTIVALS / AWARDS

2009 | African Film Festival - BAM-PAF (University of California, Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive) | BERKELEY, Ca, United States | January 25, 2009 - February 22, 2009 | www.bampfa.berkeley.edu
* Selected [In Memory of Youssef Chahine (January 25, 1926-July 27, 2008)]

2009 | Harvard Film Archive | January 16-19, 2009 | http://hcl.harvard.edu/hfa/films/2009janfeb/chahine.html
* Selected - Youssef Chahine, the Cosmopolite of Egyptian Cinema

Articles

2 files

Partners

  • Arterial network
  • RDC : Groupe TACCEMS

With the support of