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Martin Scorsese’s World Cinema Project No. 5
Chronicle of the Years of Fire: Chronicle of a Nation in Revolt
A singular achievement in Arab film history, Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina’s sweeping political epic is a memorial to the lives lost in the struggle for Algerian independence.
Cairo Station: Of Time and the City
This remarkably sensitive yet jarringly violent romance epitomizes director Youssef Chahine’s late-fifties hybrid style, which combined elements of Hollywood entertainment with an unmistakably Egyptian spirit.