The Aquarium

Youssef is a hotshot anesthesiologist who often sleeps in his car for privacy. Laila 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.

Director: Yousry Nasrallah

Cast: Hend Sabry, Amr Waked, Gamil Ratib, Samah Anwar, Bassem Samra, Dorra Zarrouk, Ahmed Al Fishawy, Asser Yassin

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