An enthralling look at the relationship between America and the Arab World from an Arab perspective. It tells the story of Yehia, a renowned Egyptian filmmaker whose life has been shaped by a pair of disrupted love affairs, one with an American woman named Ginger, the other with America itself.
Direction
Chahine's autobiographical fever dream of cinema and exile.
Writing
Love letters to Hollywood that know they'll never be returned.
Acting
Hemida carries decades of longing in one weary glance.
Director
Youssef Chahine
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Chahine's 'Alexandria' trilogy (1978-2004) traces Egypt's fraught relationship with Western cinema from colonial fascination to post-9/11 disenchantment.
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