The Citizen, a 2012 production by 3K Pictures, Why Me Film, will feature in the San Francisco Arab Film Festival (10-23 October, 2014), Egyptian movie star Khaled Al-Nabawy said on his facebook page.
Nabawy said The Citizen, his first protagonist appearance in a foreign movie, had participated in 12 international festivals in the US, Europe and the Arab region, noting that its upcoming San Francisco screening will be on the Opera Plaza theater.
Written by Jazmen Darnell Brown and Sam Kadi, the film talks about an Arab immigrant who wins the American green card lottery and arrives in New York City on September 10, 2001, one day before the attack on the World Trade Center, which the US blamed on Islamist Al-Qaeda elements, stoking Western animosity for Arab and Islamic nations and setting on the US-led global war against terrorism.
Nabawy had participated in a number of previous foreign productions such as the Kingdom of Heaven (2005) by Ridley Scott and Doug Liman’s Fair Game (2010).
He won the award for best actor for his role in Youssef Shahin's Al-Muhajer (The Emigrant) in the 1995 South Africa festival. He also received a number of awards in Egyptian cinema festivals.
Edited translation from Al-Masry Al-Youm
