Aquarium / Genenet Al Asmak

• Release Date: 2008
• Type: Featured
• Run time: 107 Minutes
• Directed by: Yousry Nasrallah
• Produced by: Gabriel Khoury
• Screenplay: Nasser Abdel Rahman, Yousry Nasrallah
• Cast: Hend Sabry, Amr Waked, Gameel Rateb, Ahmed El Fishawy, Bassem Samra, Tamim Abdo, Dorra Zarrouk, Menha El Batrawy, Salwa Mohamed Aly, Tarek Mandour, Asser Yassin, Samah Anwar
• Cinematography: Samir Bahzan
• Art direction: Adel El Maghraby
• Editing: Mona Rabee
• Costume design: Nahed Nasrallah
• Music: Tamer Karawan
• Sound: Ibrahim Desouky
• Subtitles: English, French

Synopsis:

Youssef is a hotshot anesthesiologist who often sleeps in his car for privacy. Laila (Hend Sabri) is the careerist host of a late night radio call-in show. These two members of Cairo's elite, lost souls traveling parallel paths of longing and disconnection, are the principal fish in Yousry Nasrallah's The Aquarium, a meditation on the intellectual capital of the Middle East, now bent under the sway of repression in all its forms.