Mahatah – Side Stories from Main Stations

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Swiss director Sandra Gysi and her Egyptian colleague Ahmed Abdel Mohsen have made a documentary film together about the main train stations of Zurich and Cairo. The comparative filming highlights similarities and differences: here the heat and the calmness of the passengers in Cairo, here the air conditioning and the timetable of Zurich, where people get upset about a delay of three minutes. In episodes, the film condenses into a collective poem about passages and passers-by and the global magic of the great main stations.