Short film · Cairo · 2023
A short film about Downtown Cairo, the city once called the Paris of the Middle East. Shot in sepia at Café Riche, it received the Special Judges Award from the Institut français.
Film by
Paul Brandon, Mohamed Ashraf, Caroline Maher
Production
BICC TV
Language
French, with English subtitles
Length
1:48
The film
Le Paris d’Orient is a short film about Cairo as the Paris of the Middle East. It opens on Downtown Cairo in 1960 and settles at Café Riche, where a group of friends plan their week across the city’s French places.
The story
Over coffee at Café Riche, the friends plan the days ahead: croissants at Paul, pastries at Miette, books at the Institut français, a night at the Sofitel on the Nile. Cairo, they decide, is the Paris of the Middle East.
The look
Café Riche is shot in sepia, the 1960s as a memory. The places they dream of visiting are in colour. The dialogue is in French, with English subtitles throughout.
Services
Direction
Cinematography
Editing
Colour
