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Summer open-air cinemas

Screenings on rooftops and in gardens, from June to September.

€ Budget

In summer, several Cairo cultural centres, hotels and gardens set up an outdoor screen: classic Egyptian cinema, recent films, sometimes a concert first. It is the hot-season outing, when indoor rooms are unbearable.

The extra bit

Screenings of 1950s–60s Egyptian films draw the most locals: that is where to go.

Know before you go

Programming is announced weekly and depends on the weather: nothing is fixed far ahead.

Directions

Various venues, Cairo and the north coast

Directions

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