Zawya

Cinema karim

Cinema ADDRESS

Cinema Karim
15 Emad El Deen St, Downtown
Cairo - Egypt

(+2) 01014331779

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Located at 15 Emad El Deen Street, Downtown, Cinema Karim is Zawya’s new home as of September 2018. Originally named Cinema Femina, founded during the 1940’s, then later Cinema Capitol in the 1960’s, and finally Karim. For a brief period during the 1980’s it was managed by Misr International Films in partnership with producer Hussein El Qalla.

“The famous cinemas of the thirties were on Emad El Dine Street, there was the imperial next to Empire, in front of cinéma Gaumont [Palace], which became Fémina, I particularly remember it because the hall was underground” — Berto Farhi

At the time, Youssef Chahine looked over the renovations dividing the theatre into two screens, in order to dedicate Karim 2’s programming to more arthouse and less mainstream films.

Finally, Zawya has taken over another series of renovations before its move to Karim in 2018, now with 2 screens (314 seats and 73 seats) and currently offers the latest digital projection technology.

“We danced rumba, foxtrot slow and tango during the entracte at Roxy, an open air cinema in a garden with tables and chairs, like a café. The Fémina on Emad El Din street was famous for showing French and English films. There, I watched Sous le ciel de Paris” — Spectator circa 1937

“Each cinema hall had its particularities. Usually the audience was given a countermark ticket during the entract, but at Cinema Fémina that wasn’t the case. So we would wait for the entract to enter with a cake in hand, as if we had been there since the start.” — Salah Abou Seif

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