Egypt

Two men team up to fight against British occupation in Egypt during the 1919 revolution.Read More »

Plot:A few days before she travels to Mecca to perform Hajj, Ghada faces an emergency which forces her to reach out to people from her tainted past with whom she had cut off contact in order to collect a large sum of money. So, as she collects the money, will she manage to go to Mecca, or get tangled up in the past’s webs?Read More »

A corrupt mayor, who rules the village’s people with power and injustice, forces another poor man’s wife secretly to marry him in order to have a child.Read More »

Youssef Chahine directed this drama about lovers struggling to find happiness in Egypt during the chaos of World War II. Yehia (Mohsen Mohiedine) is a teenage boy who is fascinated with the glamour of Hollywood movies, and he escapes into a rich fantasy world to free himself from the horror around him. But as he learns more about the horrors of the Nazi occupation of Europe, it becomes harder for him to ignore life’s grim realities, especially after he falls in love with a local girl. Meanwhile, a Jewish woman living nearby becomes involved with a man who is Muslim, and a gay soldier from England has an affair with a wealthy Arab. Iskanderija … Lih? was followed by two sequels, Hadota Misreya and Iskindiriah Kaman Oue Kaman.Read More »

Plot:Shousha El-Sakka, fears death because it took his wife. He meets with Shehata, and later knows that he is an undertaker assistant and he becomes pessimistic of him ,but when Shehata dies, Shousha is saddened by his passing.Read More »

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Magdy, an engineer who gets traumatized after witnessing a worker fall to his death from a building . He decides to visit Alexandria to recover, and there he meets Soad, who suffers from a pale relationship with her husband.Read More »

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An invitation to probe into one of Egypt’s least exposed areas: the world of psychiatry and “madness”. The daily detention of those who have gone to the other side of society. The film is a foray into this world of outcast and recluses.Read More »

Ali is in love with a goat. Ibrahim is being driven mad by sounds that no one else can hear. After visiting a local healer who decides they are both cursed, they decide to journey across Egypt in an attempt to lift the curses that torment them. Ali, forced by his mother, and Ibrahim forced by desperation form an unlikely friendship in this uplifting tale of self-acceptance.Read More »

Filmed in the Palestinian refugee camps of Sabra and Shatila, Lebanon, shortly before the infamous massacre of 1982, this Syrian documentary’s principle reference is dreams, and not lived reality. It plays in this way on a double register, whereby women, children, the elderly, and combatants each recall the reality of their everyday, transposed eerily into their dreams, nightmares and premonitions.Read More »