This feature film (censored in Egypt) is an ode to Cairo, seen through the eyes of a film director in personal crisis. Followed by Q&A with actor and filmmaker Khalid Abdalla.

In the Last Days of the City 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, United 93, Green Zone, Tigers, 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.

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Khalid Abdalla is an actor who works in different film related roles, as a producer and filmmaker but also in cultural production and alternative media. His work balances between his creative life and political beliefs, aware that infrastructural shifts are as necessary as ideological ones. His acting credits include In the Last Days of the City, The Narrow Frame of Midnight, United 93, Green Zone  and The Kite Runner, among others. He appears as himself in The Square. He is also a founding member of three Cairo based initiatives: Cimatheque, Zero Production and Mosireen. Brought up in the UK to Egyptian parents, Cairo and London are his two cities.