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Which 1978 film, directed by Mohamed Khan, launched the Egyptian 'neo-realist' movement by shooting entirely on the streets of Cairo with a handheld camera and non-professional actors?

Mohamed Khan's 'Darbet Shams' (1978) abandoned the studio-bound polish of classic Egyptian cinema, using location shooting, available light, and documentary-style camerawork to depict working-class Cairene life — it inaugurated a realist aesthetic that shaped the 1980s generation of filmmakers.

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