In the Last Days of the City Trailer (2018)

Trailer for In the Last Days of the City, starring Khalid Abdalla, Laila Samy, Hanan Youssef, Mariam Saleh Saad and Hayder Helo.

Film is the debut feature of filmmaker Tamer El Said. 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 film’s multi-layered stories are a visually rich exploration of friendship, loneliness, loss and life in cities shaped by the shadows of war and adversity.