Still from Cairo Conspiracy
Cairo Conspiracy
classified 12A S
Film
Please note: This was screened in April 2023
"Egypt’s religious and secular institutions both breed mistrust in Tarik Saleh’s superbly realised paranoid nightmare." The Guardian
Cairo Conspiracy is the critically-acclaimed new thriller from Tarik Saleh (The Nile Hilton Incident).
Adam, the son of a fisherman, is given the chance to study at a prestigious university in Cairo. Shortly after his arrival, the institution’s Grand Imam suddenly dies, rendering him a pawn in the power struggle between Egypt’s religious and political elite.
Saleh’s Cairo Conspiracy is boldly anti-clerical, lifting the uncomfortably thin veil between religion and politics to reveal a hidden underbelly of corruption and hypocrisy.