On the homosexuality issue in The Yacoubian Building Film, BBC wrote that “.. director Marwan Hamid brings to the screen controversial figures and great taboos.

The actor Khaled Sawy - who portrays the homosexual writer - says that the producers also were careful of that certain limits could not be exceeded if they wanted to see the film in the screens.”

"Unhappily it is truth that we have censorship. When we are producing a work of art, we know that it has a ceiling that it cannot be exceeded ", says Sawy.

In the case of Yacoubian Building the producers had perceived that to show very explicit scenes of bodies if touching and kisses - mainly between two men - it would exceed in the ceiling, not only of the censorship as also of the sensitivity of the Egyptian public.

"We are showing in this film the complete homosexual love, in a way never before displayed in the Arab cinema. But what we want to show is all the side of the feeling and the love and not necessarily two men in the bed ", Sawy says.

The actor says that the film intends to show new things for a public little accustomed to it.

"We want that the people attend the film and leave there thinking. We do not want that nobody skirt of the cinema in the way it film physically shocked with what it saw ", said.