Eagles of the Republic is the third entry in writer/director Tarik Saleh's 'œCairo Trilogy,' all of which use the thriller genre to comment on political corruption and power in modern Egypt (although Saleh was born and raised in Sweden, his father is Egyptian). The first two films, The Nile Hilton Incident (2017) and Boy From Heaven (2022), put Saleh on the international map, as the former debuted at Sundance and won the World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic, while the latter debuted at Cannes, where it won the Best Screenplay award, as well as the François Chalais Prize. ... Read More