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.