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. Quickly, Juliette realizes that acts that are simple everyday events in Canada, such as walking across the street, are a test of wills in Cairo, where women, particularly foreigners, do not easily move about in public alone. Juliette finds herself turning to Tareq, who shows her first Cairo and then herself. With a West-meets-East quality, this film describes the unexpected, unrequited love between an Arab man and a North American woman.

Ruba Nadda is a critically and internationally acclaimed Canadian filmmaker. Her films include Sabah and 13 shorts that have been shown over 500 times in film festivals around the world, including over 30 retrospectives of her work. She is currently working on her next feature films, An October Gale and Abu Muna.

Ruba Nadda is a critically and internationally acclaimed Canadian filmmaker. Her films include Sabah and 13 shorts that have been shown over 500 times in film festivals around the world, including over 30 retrospectives of her work. She is currently working on her next feature films, An October Gale and Abu Muna.