Film Clinic and Front Row Filmed Entertainment have announced the start of principal photography for Egyptian director Omar Hilal’s new feature His Weakest Creatures on November 14.

The film will unite two of Egyptian cinema’s biggest stars – Ahmed Helmy and Hend Sabry – on the big screen for the first time.

It marks the first big screen role after three year hiatus for Helmy, who is known for films such as El Nazer (2000), Keda Reda (2007), and X-Large (2011).

Helmy will play a principled zoologist working in Cairo’s historical Giza Zoo, struggling to uphold his values amid dwindling resources and quiet institutional decay, while facing faces mounting financial pressure at home.

When a wealthy visitor offers to “adopt” surplus animals, he is drawn into a wrenching mo

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