Koka The Butcher
Award-Winning Films
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37m
Koka, a pillar of Cairo’s pigeon-fighting community, devotes his life to training hundreds of birds from his wooden tower. But under growing pressure from his conservative community to abandon his passion, he faces a harsh reality: his cherished way of life may be ending.
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