
The City / Al Madina
- Release Date: 2000
- Type: Featured
- Run time: 110 Minutes
- Directed by: Yousry Nasrallah
- Produced by: Gabriel Khoury, Humbert Balsan
- Screenplay: Yousry Nasrallah, Nasser Abdel Rahman, Claire Denis
- Cast: Yousra, Bassem Samra, Roshdy Zeim, Amr Selim, Mohamed Nagaty, Enas El Dimoudrous, Atiya Ouwes, Seif Abdel Rahman, Zaky Fateen Abdel Wahab
- Cinematography: Samir Bahzan
- Art direction: Alain Georges Ferrero, Salah Marel
- Editing: Tamer Ezzat
- Costume design: Nahed Nasrallah, Soraya Baghdady
- Music: Tamer Karawan
- Sound: Gasser Khorshed
- Subtitles: English, French
Synopsis:
Frustrated with life as a butcher's assistant and under his father's thumb, Ali heads for Paris, only to discover that the only work he can get as an illegal immigrant is as a boxer in rigged fights. Nasrallah uses melodrama to depict life in Cairo, and Neorealist grit for Paris — his mix of genres makes for a film as amiable as its hero.