Cairo Time

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Movie
Original title Cairo Time
Country of production Canada
Ireland
Egypt
original language English
Arabic
Publishing year 2009
length 90 minutes
Rod
Director Ruba Nadda
script Ruba Nadda
music Niall Byrne
camera Luc Montpellier
cut Teresa Hannigan
occupation

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

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Juliette, a journalist for the women's magazine VOUS, has come to Cairo to take a three-week vacation with her husband Mark, who works for the UN in Gaza. But Mark cannot pick her up from the airport: unrest in the refugee camp is holding him up. Instead he sends his former colleague and friend Tareq. Tareq picks Juliette up and takes her to the hotel, and Juliette begins to explore Cairo on her own - always in anticipation of Mark's early arrival. But she hesitates. And so Juliette soon reached her limits in the Islamic country as a woman traveling alone and in ignorance of the cultural codes. Finally she turns back to Tareq and begins to explore the foreign country with him. A violent, crackling tension builds up between the two - until one day Mark suddenly stands in the hotel and wants to keep his holiday promise to Juliette.

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