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When We're Born [Plays May 13-23 as part of the MSPIFF40 Film Festival; for more information, log on to mspfilm.org/festivals/mspiff for full schedule.] Tamar Ezzat's engaging, award-winning, well-acted, bittersweet, down-to-Earth, 110-minute, 2019 film that interconnects the lives of three Egyptians in Cairo, including a newlywed personal trainer (Amr Abed), who dreams of owning his own gym and affording an apartment that his hairstylist wife (Ibtihal Elserety) so desperately wants so that they did not have to live with his mother (Omaima El-Sebaie), senile grandfather (Mustafa Darwesh), and unhappy brother (Fares Hadad), compromises his values when a wealthy client (Dana Hamdan) suggests he seduce lonely women for money; an ambitious son (Amir Eid) who goes against the wishes of his widowed, business owner father to pursue his dream of being a professional singer; and a Muslim antiques seller (Mohamed Hatem) who falls in love with a Christian woman (Salma Hasan) who tells her best friend (Passant Shawky) everything and knows her mother (Hanan Soliman) will disapprove of her relationship.
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