Film fans find calm in fading cinema

Aden's Hurricane theater offers just one screening a day, but a devoted band of Yemeni film lovers has kept the British colonial-era cinema going through communism, civil war and al-Qaida.

A handful of aging cinema buffs files quietly into the fading yellow building in Aden's Crater district at the same time six days a week, just as the sun slips behind the volcanic hills encircling the city.

This routine - every evening except Saturday - has withstood years of upheaval in violence-wracked Yemen, and most recently weathered the political crisis that saw the president flee his residence to a sanctuary in Aden.