CAIROBSERVER: DOCUMENTING CAIRO ON FILM
from
03 January 2015
UNTIL
31 March 2015
Zawya is pleased to invite you to its first collaboration with Cairobserver for a special film program titled 'Documenting Cairo on Film'. Cairobserver is an on-line platform for conversations about Cairo's architecture and building, urban fabric and city life. This film program brings together a selection of documentary films focused on various aspects of life in Cairo. Each film focuses on a set of characters or particular places shedding light on often overlooked communities, ways of life, urban complexities and social networks. Together these documentaries provide a new map of the city as seen through the eyes of the directors who approach it in a variety of ways. Hosted by Zawya, this film program will for the first time allow Cairo’s residents to come together and view these phenomenal films on a big screen and in conversation with one another.
PROGRAM FILMS
CROP
CROP involves you in a personal story of the Egyptian Revolution in 2011, told from a rare perspect...
CAIRO AS SEEN BY CHAHINE / BOYS AND GIRLS
This film program brings together a selection of documentary films focused on various aspects of lif...
GIRAN (NEIGHBOURS)
Built at the dawn of the 20th century, the neighborhood of Garden City was a small residential area ...
FORBIDDEN
Three months before the January 25th uprising, the director of this film began shooting her first sc...
SCENT OF REVOLUTION
The scent of revolution is bewitching and can be found all over the place, it is intangible and ephe...
GARBAGE DREAMS
Garbage Dreams follows three teenage boys born into the trash trade and growing up in the world's la...
ELECTRO SHAABI
In the slums of Cairo, youth dancing to electro chaabi, new music that blends folk song, electro bea...