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 "id": "screen/madinat-al-hayat-2009",
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 "slug": "madinat-al-hayat-2009",
 "label": {
  "en": "City of Life",
  "ar": "مدينة الحياة"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "أول فيلم روائي طويل إماراتي لعلي مصطفى عن ثلاث قصص متقاطعة في دبي؛ ميلاد السينما الإماراتية.",
  "en": "City of Life."
 },
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 "wings": [],
 "regions": [],
 "periods": [],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [
  "cities",
  "refugees-migrants-diaspora",
  "humour-and-everyday-life"
 ],
 "data": {
  "format": "film",
  "relevance": "substantial",
  "titles": [
   {
    "lang": "en",
    "value": "City of Life",
    "kind": "release"
   }
  ],
  "released": {
   "edtf": "2009",
   "calendar": "gregorian",
   "precision": "year"
  },
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   "ae"
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  "languages": {
   "original": [
    "ar",
    "en"
   ]
  },
  "depiction": {
   "prophet": "not-applicable",
   "companions": "not-applicable",
   "imams": "not-applicable"
  },
  "approach": "drama-of-muslim-life",
  "external_ids": {
   "wikidata": "Q5123755",
   "imdb": "tt1159926"
  },
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   "source/imdb"
  ],
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 2,
   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 High), screen-index lane; existence, year and identifiers verified against Wikidata and IMDb, 2026-10-16"
  },
  "reception": []
 },
 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "أول فيلم روائي طويل إماراتي لعلي مصطفى عن ثلاث قصص متقاطعة في دبي؛ ميلاد السينما الإماراتية. {cite:wikidata} {cite:imdb}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "screen/madinat-al-hayat-2009",
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    "translators": []
   }
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Overview",
     "markdown": "The first long Emirati feature film by Ali Mostafa, about three intersecting stories in Dubai; the birth of Emirati cinema. {cite:wikidata} {cite:imdb}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "screen/madinat-al-hayat-2009",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
   }
  },
  "ur": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "خلاصہ",
     "markdown": "علی مصطفیٰ کی پہلی اماراتی طویل فیچر فلم جو دبئی میں تین آپس میں جڑی کہانیوں کے بارے میں ہے؛ اماراتی سینما کی پیدائش۔ {cite:wikidata} {cite:imdb}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "screen/madinat-al-hayat-2009",
    "lang": "ur",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
   }
  }
 },
 "degree": 0,
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 "related": [
  "screen/almanya-2011",
  "screen/bab-al-hara-2006",
  "screen/east-is-east-1999",
  "screen/la-bud-min-al-sama-2019",
  "screen/umar-qatlatu-1976",
  "concept/arab-peoples-before-islam",
  "concept/jahili-virtues",
  "concept/judaism-in-arabia"
 ],
 "license": {
  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
}