Egyptian cinema is one of the oldest and most prolific in the Arab world, with Cairo long nicknamed the Hollywood of the East. Youssef Chahine's Cairo Station remains one of its most celebrated works, a raw, melodramatic masterpiece that put Egyptian film on the international map. See what Macca made of it and more below.
Rating: 3.5★
Forget Indiana Jones. Forget every Hollywood adventure where an ancient Egyptian tomb exists purely as a puzzle box for some square-jawed foreigner to crack open. If you want to understand the real human story behind those extraordinary discoveries, the guilt, the compromise, the impossible weight of deciding who a
Rating: 4.0★
What does it do to a person, being told before you can even speak that your death is already written? That question sits at the heart of Amjad Abu Alala's Sudanese debut, and it never lets go. From the moment a Sufi sheikh delivers his prophecy over a
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Where do you even begin? That's the question I kept asking myself as the credits rolled on All That's Left of You, and I still don't have a clean answer. What I do have is the feeling of something sitting heavy in my chest,
Genre Crime
★★½ — Cairo Station (1958)
Genre Drama
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