Director Tamer El Said and actor Khalid Abdalla discuss their film 'In the Last Days of the City' following its North American Premiere at New Directors/New Films 2016, co-presented by the Film Society of Lincoln Center and the Museum of Modern Art.

This feature film is a slapstick comedy set in a working-class neighbourhood in the wake of the 25 January 2011 revolution. The film revolves around ‘Tika’ (Mohamed Sa’ad), an unlikely hero, who sells fireworks for a living. Tika finds himself…