Cairo Time

Cairo Time is a film by Ruba Nadda, a Canadian director of Arabic origin, from the year 2009. The film won an award at the 2009 Toronto International Film Festival. The film was shot at various locations in Egypt.

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Juliette, a journalist for the women's magazine VOUS, has come to Cairo to spend three weeks vacation with her husband Mark, who works for the UN in Gaza. But Mark can not pick up from the airport: Unrest in the refugee camp keep him on. Instead, he sends his former colleague and friend Tareq. Tareq brings Juliette from, bring them to the hotel, and Juliette begins to explore Cairo on your own - always in the expectation of Mark's speedy arrival. However, the delayed addition,. And so met Juliette in the Islamic country as a woman traveling alone and unaware of the cultural codes soon reach their limits. Finally, she turns back to Tareq and starts in his company to explore the foreign land. Suddenly until one day Mark is in the hotel and wants to keep his promise to leave Juliette - Between the two a fierce, crackling tension builds up.

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