At the Arts Picturehouse
CAIRO STATION + Q&A
Time: 6.00 – 8.15 PM
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Starring: Farid Shawqi, Hend Rostom, Youssef Chahine
Country of origin: Egypt
Release date: 1958
Length: 77 min
Language: Arabic with English subtitles
Genre: crime, drama
Synopsis: Kinawi, a physically challenged peddler who makes his living selling newspapers in the central Cairo train station, is obsessed with Hannouma, an attractive young woman who sells drinks. While she treats Kinawi in a sympathetic way and jokes with him about a possible relationship, she is actually in love with Abu Sri, a strong and respected porter at the station who is struggling to unionise his fellow workers to combat their boss’s exploitative and abusive treatment.
This film is part of a love-themed African film series called ‘From Africa, with Love’, in a collaboration between the five African film festivals in the UK: Africa in Motion (AiM) Film Festival in Scotland, Film Africa in London, Afrika Eye in Bristol, Watch-Africa in Wales, and the Cambridge African Film Festival (CAFF), in association with the BFI UK Audience Network’s LOVE Blockbuster Season.
The film will be followed by a discussion with Egyptian scholar Dr Maha Abdelrahman (POLIS, University of Cambridge) in conversation with Estrella Sendra.
