Movies: Alaa Al Aswany

  • 2006
    The Yacoubian Building

    The Yacoubian Building (2006)

    The Yacoubian Building

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    Cairo: a 70-year-old building of once-luxury flats with tenements on the roof. Zaki, an aging libertine, feuds with his sister. Pious Hajj Azzam takes a second wife, in secret, to satisfy his sexual drive within religious bounds. Bothayna, poor and b...

    The Yacoubian Building
  • 2009
    Neighbors

    Neighbors (2009)

    Neighbors

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    Garden City, a small district of Cairo, is far from being without importance. In the early 19th century, it was the center of international political affairs in the Egyptian capital. The film takes us on a tour of these abandoned villas, huge recepti...

    Neighbors