Yemenis filed into a makeshift cinema for the first time since fighting broke out in their city of Aden more than three years ago — and watch some of their own story reflected back at them on the projector screen.

The film they have come to see is "Ten Days Before the Wedding" — a gripping drama about a young couple from the southern port city whose marriage plans are nearly derailed by the country's civil war and other troubles.

It is the first film publicly screened there since the conflict erupted, and the first local Yemeni production in years.