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Cairo Time
Festival Film
Narrative Feature, 2009, 88 min
Directed by: Ruba Nadda
Interests: *Feature Length Films, Female Director, Romance

A throwback to classic films with the restrained emotional tension of the work of Jane Austen, Cairo Time is a love letter to a city intertwined with a love story. Juliette (Patricia Clarkson), a magazine editor, travels to Cairo to meet her husband, Mark, a United Nations official working in Gaza, for a three week vacation. Mark is delayed and sends his friend and former security officer, Tareq (Alexander Siddig), to escort Juliette around the beautiful and exotic city. Read More

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I Met the Walrus
Short in front of Feature
Short Documentary, 2007, 5 min
Directed by: Josh Raskin
Precedes: Nowhere Boy
Interests: *Short Films, Animation, Arts & Artists

In 1969, a 14-year-old Beatles fanatic named Jerry Levitan snuck into John Lennon’s hotel room in Toronto and convinced him to do an interview. This film combines that original recording with pen and digital illustrations. Read More

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Last Train Home
Festival Film
Documentary Feature, 2009, 87 min
Directed by: Lixin Fan
Interests: *Feature Length Films, World Cinema

Emotionally engaging and visually beautiful, Last Train Home portrays the fractured lives of the members of a family participating in the desperate annual migration that takes place every Chinese New Year, when millions of migrant factory workers attempt to return home by train. Read More