Bittersweet

Bittersweet (عسل أسود, 2010) is an Egyptian comedy-drama directed by Khaled Marei that you can watch online on iFILM. An Egyptian-American man boards a flight back to Cairo after twenty years in the United States, full of warmth for the country he left behind. What he finds is a place that no longer quite fits him — and a version of himself that no longer quite fits either.

Ahmed Helmy, Egypt's most beloved comedy actor, plays the returning protagonist with enough charm to keep the premise from tipping into sentiment. The film doesn't settle the argument: the homeland isn't bad, the life abroad wasn't wrong, the man is just caught between two clocks running at different speeds. Watch Bittersweet (2010) online on iFILM.