The festival in Toronto begins at the beginning of September – where Saleh's film is selected in the Centerpiece section. The film previously competed this year for the Golden Palm at the festival in Cannes.
"Eagles of the republic" is a political thriller and completes what has been called the "Cairo trilogy". The film was preceded by "The Nile Hilton incident" and "Boy from heaven", all with Fares Fares in the lead role.
In the new film, Fares plays a popular actor in Egypt who falls out of favor with the authorities and is drawn into a complicated political game.
In addition to Fares Fares, actors such as French Lyna Khoudri and French-Moroccan Zineb Triki appear in "Eagles of the republic".
The film is a Swedish, French, Danish, Finnish and German co-production and will have its Swedish cinema premiere on November 14.
