Seeking Haven for Mr Rambo: dir Khaled Mansour (2024)

Tensions boil over when 30-year-old Cairo security guard Hassan (Essam Omar) gets into an argument with his bullish landlord Karem (Ahmed Bahaa), Hassan’s beloved dog Rambo steps up to defend his master via a bite to Karem’s privates. Vengeance beckons; Hassan embarks on an urgent mission to find a safe place for his canine companion, and in the process rediscovers self-respect.

The feature debut from Khaled Mansour brings a distinctively gritty flavour to its vision of lives on the fringes of working class Cairo and announces Mansour as a notable talent in Egyptian independent filmmaking; the film, which premiered in Venice’s Horizons Extra strand, screens in the CinemaNA series and is presented by the NYUAD Film and New Media Program.

In Arabic with English subtitles.