Discoveries from Egypt World Cinema

The film describes the political and economical corruption in 70s’ Egypt, through the relationship between a powerful man and his wife’s ex-fiance.

Limited by choices and eager for independence, a drummer and a basketball coach simultaneously agree to sign tenancy agreements with fishy terms. They meet by chance and fall in love without knowing they live in the same place.

Khalil abandons his lover, Shukriya, and refuses to marry her, even though she is pregnant. Khalil is killed and Shukriya gives birth to twins. She works as a beggar. She falls into the hands of Abbas, the chief beggar. He falls in love with her and marries her. She discovers that he is a drug dealer. Shukria informs the police and he is sentenced to prison. Shukria takes Abbas's place from prison and becomes the queen of the beggars.

Seif works in a video rental store, and lives with a group of young men aspiring for a better life. Seif tries to prove himself worthy by showcasing his singing talent, to the disappointment of the store's owner who fires him. Seif ends up in jail, where he meets a leftist student and poet, who introduces him to an infamous old composer, and they form a trio and take their art to the streets.

Jasser sneaks into Yassin's house to steal, but he senses a strange movement, as Saadia, the servant Ibrahim's wife, tries to find out who is in the house, so he kills her and Yassin. During that, Ibrahim arrives, and his daughter Naima testifies against him after seeing him holding a knife next to her mother's body, so he is imprisoned, and events escalate.

An English literature doctor and her husband works as a psychology teacher at the university. They have been six years of marriage without having children, and problems abound between them. Some friends advise the doctor to go to Attar to take some medicinal herbs that benefit pregnancy, and at the same time, some friends advise the husband to go to a psychologist, and indeed both are done, and many events occur.

Hassan Ellol is a poor man, making a living out of stealing and smuggling watches and small goods inside the car he drives. His life is turned upside down when he falls in love with Fatima, who turns out to be the daughter of a drug tycoon preparing to run for the parliamentary elections.

The film follows the touching stories of various people in Downtown Cairo as they try to find balance in their lives and deal with its ups and downs.

The heroine of the film is a poor girl who dreamed of wealth and a high position in society. By chance, her dreams come true, but wealth does not bring her happiness. The girl refuses the money and returns to her former friends.

Nadine gets rid of the state of emptiness in which she lives, by meeting a fraudulent young man named Bassem, who offers her the kind of love and attention that she is missing. Nadine Bassem participates in fraud operations through which they get involved in many problems, which puts their love story and other matters at stake.

(Maysa) Delegate to one of the advertising agencies, competes with another agency, the Oscar agency, which works (Salah Fouad), and each of them trying to win advertising campaigns illegally, Salah (Fouad) organizes an advertising campaign for a fake commodity called Fankouche, and requests ( Salah Fouad) from Dr. (Ayoub) to invent any material by this name for marketing, Maysa go to the laboratory of Dr. (Ayoub), and meet (Fouad) as Dr. (Ayoub) and fall in love.

After the son returns from Alexandria to Cairo to live with his father again, the wife is attracted by her husband’s preoccupation into an affection for her husband’s son, which quickly turns into intense lust.

When her stepfather tries to rape her, Amal kills him and flees. She finds refuge in the house of the fine artist Ahmed Khaled who falls for her, but his protégé, the sculptor Sherif, also falls for her and competes with Ahmed to win her favor.

A famous producer agrees to contract with director Imran and author Fathi for a movie, on the condition that they finish writing it within two weeks, so the director and author decide to go to one of the deserted places to write the movie. On their way to Fayoum, they were caught by a hotel called "Locanda Blue Stars", and the director was impressed by the name, and decided that they should stay in it. To find mystery and excitement surrounding the guests, while they find themselves involved in a murder.

Attia (Yehia al-Fakharani) works as a simple employee, after his mother-in-law threatens to break his engagement from her daughter because of his delay in getting an apartment. He travels to his hometown to sell his inheritance. There he falls in love with Kharyia (Leila Alawi) daughter of Kamal Bey (Farid Shawki) who bought his land.

Dunya decides to marry Elmalem, but she soon discovers that he is impotent, so her heart yearns for the honest employee and tries in every way to implant him in her life. Indeed, she succeeds in making him become Elmalem’s agent in his shops, but after a while she is shocked that he is in love with a girl named Ratiba, so events turn upside down.

Ahmed Zaki plays a peasant, Mountasir, who gets involved in a criminal racket run by his friend Midhat. Mountasir is betrayed by Midhat and goes to jail. Upon discovering that his wife was forced into prostitution by Midhat, he swears to extract revenge when he leaves jail.

Ali, an aspiring actor, works in a government-aided butchery and takes part in a cheap play. Defying his father's wishes, he moves to Paris to fulfill his dreams and starts living illegally alongside many other Arabs. Ali has a life-changing experience there that he won't fully remember until he returns to Egypt.

A father returns to his three children again after years. He believes that they have become a place in society. He dreamed of becoming the first doctor and the second engineer and the third lawyer, but he was surprised by the reality they reached, and during the events the three brothers are involved in a terrorist operation, and with the help of a group of girls they succeed in Abort the operation.

Saqr falls in love with fashion designer Kanarya, but their love story becomes complicated due to complex family issues involving her sister and brother-in-law.

Iman is the daughter of the businessman Gasser, both Ashraf and Sami are in love with her. Her father agrees to her engagement from Sami. A month before the wedding, she loses her virginity with Sami, and he dies in a car accident. Iman falls apart and Ashraf proposes to her.

Mamdouh meets with Hanan on a ship heading to Greece, and a romance starts between them, so Mamdouh proposes to Hanan. To his surprise, Hanan returns suddenly to Egypt and asks him not to try to find her again. Mamdouh returns to Egypt to find that she is married to Ezzat Beik, a very powerful man, and a war ensues between Mamdouh and Ezzat.

Al-Qarmouty owns a coffee shop in Nazlet El-Semman. When he sends his son, Wahid, to Baghdad to deliver a mango shipment to his friend Abu Adnan, he gets arrested for criticizing Saddam Hussein. As the US forces prepare to attack Iraq, Al-Qarmouty has to go to Iraq to find his son.

Set in 1881, a year before the start of British colonial rule, it is based on the true story of the Abd el-Rasuls, an Upper-Egyptian clan that had been robbing a cache of mummies they have discovered at tomb DB320 near the village of Kurna, and selling the artifacts on the black market. After a conflict within the clan, one of its members made a crucial decision when the Antiquities Service arrived.

Haidy is a criminal who gets three young and poor men involved in illegal activities and exploits them. Will she manage to deceive them till the end? Are they going to believe Haidy?

Haniyeh has not seen her father since childhood and therefore does not know how it looks and forced her father's friend Esmat Al-Darmali to lie to her and tell her that he is her father Esmat Al-Damanhouri instead of her real father, and therefore Haniyeh continues to treat Esmat Al-Darmali as his father.

Conman (Mayo) schemes people with his small gang,but decides to quit when he learns a tough lesson after becoming the victim to his own doings. He is then offered a job by a mob boss to steal money from a safe in a hotel room.

Based on the life and legend of Antarah ibn Shaddad, a 6th century poet and hero whose poetic works are considered among the greatest in the Arab language.

Wahid young painter. He is on his way to participate in his new painting exhibition, shocked by a car and insisting on a drawing by Madiha Yousri, the woman fighting for women's rights and equal to the man instead of the old painting. And here talked a lot of comic paradoxes until the marriage between them.

Follows the escape journey of 4 complete strangers who were accused of a murder they did not commit.

Master Boltia is facing investors trying to control a private beach in the Max area in Alexandria, where she lives with her daughter, leading to a fierce confrontation between her and the investors.

Sayed, a street vendor, enlists the help of the lawyer Azza to prove his and his siblings' ownership of the house they reside in. As Azza looks the ownership documents over, she discovers that the siblings actually own the plot of land on which the Cairo Airport is built.

The twins (Nadia and Mona) live in peace in Cairo with their father, a university professor, and their French mother. While Nadia is shy, Mona is bold and free. Nadia is exposed to a fire accident, and the father dies, so the family is forced to travel to France, where Mona also dies, but after... Nadia writes to Dr. Medhat with a picture of Mona, and he is about to come to France to see her, so Nadia falls into trouble for fear of discovering her true nature.

The film revolves around Mohsen (Mahmoud Zulfikar), who secretly marries Qamar (Camelia) without his aristocratic family knowing about his marriage. One day, his father asks him to come home because he has chosen the daughter of a fish merchant to be his wife to save the family from bankruptcy. For Mohsen and Qamar's marriage not to be exposed, Qamar is forced to travel as a nanny to work for Mohsen's father. From the moment she is appointed, all the men in the house begin to pursue her to express their admiration for her.

Poor young man Mahmoud Fathi electrician and loves music and composing, live in the same House orphan girl Delilah who loves him and trading love, in its composition towards renewal and which does not correspond to respond, he discovers that his girlfriend is sick with TB and to cure her needs a large amount so he agrees to sing Method does not satisfy him to provide, the girl decides to sacrifice herself, committing suicide to free him from this situation and to live his art. Captured by a wealthy Lady insists, intellectual Hanim resume career.

(Al-Darmali) asks for a gift from (Safwat) to give it to his fiancee, so he involves (Safwat) in dealing with (Badawi) the dealer of stolen goods, then the events escalate to (Al-Darmali) be involved in events in which he did not expect to be involved.

Dr. (Saber) returns from abroad after completing his studies, accompanied by his wife, Dr. (Laila). He agrees with her to hide their marriage from his family. He agrees with his uncle (Khader) to marry his daughter (Sobhiya). Dr. (Jalal), Laila’s uncle, sympathizes with (Saber). He advises him to marry Subhiya out of fear for his uncle's health, and events escalate.

Wezah and Hamdi succeed in recruiting Iman to work with them in drug smuggling, Iman travels to Tunisia on a mission for both Hamdi and Waze. Eman's material condition improves and she decides to stop this job and cancel her travel.

Manar marries a wealthy man while she is in a relationship with Medhat. He sends her letters in the name of Nabila, her brother Sharaf's wife, but divorces her when he gets his hands on one of them. He suspects his paternity of Mervat and hands her over to a teacher who runs a pickpocket den.

Ahmed who work as a teacher rent an apartment in Abbas the vicious butcher Building in Al-Hussein district in Cairo who lives with his pregnant wife and beautiful sister, soon Ahmed falls in love with Aziza, so he asked Aziza's brother For Her Hand In Marriage but he refused & accused he is only interested in her money.

Based on the novel by Egyptian writer Tawfiq al-Hakim, 1937, Diary of A Country Prosecutor records the daily activities and tribulations of a public official appointed to act as a village justice in the countryside.

Wael is a psychiatry student by day and nightclub worker,he gets acquainted with Salwa in the hospital where he trains and falls in love with her. He feels that there's a big story behind her admission to the hospital and tries to help her despite all the obstacles she faces.

Yearning to get back with Ehab, Salma finds her loveless marriage, his devastating secret, and society’s opinions stand in their way.

In one of the rural areas of Upper Egypt, the "Najawi" works on a ferry owned by the people to transport the people between the two banks of the river with symbolic reward, to get love and respect for everyone despite his poverty and satisfaction with the little he earns, and exchange love with the beautiful village "Saadia" So Saadia's family objected to the marriage of their daughter Najawi to his poverty

Shaaban, a magazine photographer, is hired to secretly photograph a heist between two rival gangs. When he tries to keep part of the money, he becomes a target for both sides.

When a woman is accused of a high-profile murder, a young lawyer takes on her defense, only to uncover a web of secrets, deceit, and hidden motives. As he digs deeper, the case becomes more personal—and far more dangerous than he ever expected.

Said and Nabil are friends. Said can't have children, and Dr. Nabil decides to help him by transplanting part of the brain of poor man Abdul Qawi to him, who suffers from severe fatigue after the operation, while Said is unable to have children despite the success of the operation.

When Hamdy's father is arrested for dealing drugs, Hamdy loses everything including his fiancée Amany who gets engaged to his old classmate Ramzy. Amany pressures Ramzy to accept a bribe from a contractor to hide his construction violations.

On a fishing trip, Adel takes his three friends, and while fishing they find a heavy bag. The three rush to pick it up, and find a shipment of drugs inside. Three gang members watch the situation from a distance, and when the friends reach the bag, the gang members intervene to seize the bag. At this point, police officer Lotfy appears and tries to arrest them.

After the assassination of a scientist who invented a way to change salt water to energy, a record of his invention is found by three flight attendants who are dragged into the chase of their lives.

Five guys wake up in an abandoned place not knowing how and why they are there, also not remembering their identities, and consequently embarking on a long journey to find out how this happened.

Hatem is a corrupt police officer, who loves his neighbor Nour, who in turn loves the prosecutor, Sherif. Hatem tries to win Nour’s attention even if by force.

Two men, a husband and a father-in-law, complain about their wives' preoccupation with their careers that they grow negligent of their husbands. In an attempt to grab the women's attention, the two men plot with Camelia, their neighbor, to claim that they trade in drugs.

Khaled Al-Sawy is a businessman who suffers from a mental disorder, which makes him prone to any nervous breakdown. He returns to Egypt from abroad to start over but faces many challenges that change the course of his life.

A girl is married to a doctor and they are living a love story. She was the target of all the relatives who tried to ruin this marriage and they actually succeeded in doing so. The wife was jealous of her husband because of her friend who asked her friend's husband, the doctor, to get rid of the fetus she had conceived from her lover, but the doctor refused, so the family collapsed because of the wife's suspicions.

Over the course of 48 hours, Daye travels across Egypt's governorates to fulfill his dream. He is accompanied by his captivating voice, his broken family, and his music teacher. He journeys without money, a car, or any means of communication, and most importantly, he is unsure of his ability to reach his goal.

The plastic surgeon Makram Abu Al-Makarim works with the Mafia and assisted by his nurse, Sahar is pursued by a reporter who is making a field research on the dangers of plastic surgeries and their harmful applications.