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On a film set, one of the workers encounters a dilemma when his daughter is kidnapped and the kidnappers ask him to kill the film's lead actor in order to get his daughter back.

Poor Jaber tries to enroll in law school and support his sick mother who depends on him to provide for her. When he wants to admit her to the hospital, his wealthy uncle refuses to help him, so he decides to kill him.

Al Sowan is an Egyptian play written and directed by French theatre-maker Pascal Rambert and translated by actress, director, and drama critic Menha El Batrawy. This is Rambert’s first Egyptian play, written especially for the local audience at D-CAF – where it is set to make its World Premiere. The play brings together a dazzling cast, starring actors Magdy Atwan, Noha El Kholy, Nanda Mohammad, Mohamed Hatem, Raafat El Bayoumi, Sarrah Abdelrahman, Ahmed Malek, Laila Ghoneim, Marwan El Gabalawy and Yehia Hussein.

Based on the story of the literary writer Youssef Al-Qaid, the events of the film revolve around a group of farmers who discover oil on one of them’s land, and the mayor begins to exploit it to his advantage.

After her father’s death, Nadia goes to stay in the house of her relative, Rushdi Al-Bagouri, to convince her son Adel to take advantage of her father’s wealth by setting up a factory for peasants who are interested in their problems, but she is subject to many harassments from the second son Ramzi, to decide to leave, and events escalate.

The novelist Sami Al-Bagouri finds himself in trouble when he is caught between his jealous wife Zahra and the ghost of his late wife Fekria who discovers that he took another wife.

Sons of Sheikh "Salem" the supervisor of "Mahmoud bek" farm succeeded in high school, So he decided to bring them into Cairo University. Sheikh "Salem" resorted to "Mahmoud bek" to help him, but he opposed the idea of teaching the children of peasants, so the wife of Sheikh "Salem" decided to sell her gold and sent their children "Ibrahim" and "Ali" to the university.

Sameh and Azouz are two friends. The first becomes a famous actor, while the second, who accompanied him during his years of hardship, turns into a mere stand-in for Sameh. Then, Salma, the famous actress, appears and Sameh pursues her, but she takes care of his friend, the stand-in, and events escalate.

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?

A young employee tries to cover for his colleague, whom he loves, after he discovers that she embezzled money from the company they work in. As he gets accused of her crime, he gets involved in her husband's murder and tries to escape.

Awni's father gets him a job giving music lessons to his manager's daughter Nihad. As Awni forms a band with his friends to perform in nightclubs, their attempt to get time off to work in Alexandria leads Samir to suggest that they let themselves be bitten by a dog to take sick leave.

Jalal Abu Al-Majd owns one of the turning workshops, and decides to travel to Germany to buy new machines, to modernize the workshop, and leaves the workshop in the care of his older brother (Sherif), who gets acquainted with (Hassanein) the imposter and his partner (Gina) who delude him to complete a deal of equipment for the workshop for 25 thousand (A pound) Sheriff considers a gain, and upon delivery, (Sherif) discovers that the equipment is nothing but red building bricks. (Sharif) decides to take revenge on (Hassanein) and (Gina) by killing them and recovering his money. (Jalal) returns from Germany and tries with (Sharif) to recover his money.

Abu Zeit al-Hilali works in the sale of beans and falafel, and decides to move to Zamalek, and marries Mervat without the knowledge of her father in his building, but her feelings are still attached to her lover Alaa.

A girl's bad luck puts her in the position of a murderer in a murder committed by a dangerous criminal. The criminal takes advantage of her naivety and makes her believe she is the killer. The girl suffers from his mistreatment of her.

Ahmed inherits a villa from his uncle and moves in with his two friends. As he starts working at a hotel, he meets Nour and falls for her. He throws parties for his manager in the villa, until Dina shows up to tell him that his late uncle keeps the key of a safe filled with jewelry in the villa.

Yassin is a wealthy businessman who started as a drug dealer. As he tries to prevent his son Kamal from following in his footsteps, his son Maged graduates from med school and goes to the US. When he returns, he is shocked when he finds his father married to Dalal, Maged's former sweetheart.

Ghada, a young woman from a wealthy family, falls in love with her university colleague, Abou Zeid. Despite opposition from her influential uncle due to social differences, she chooses to follow her heart. But their marriage soon faces unexpected challenges that put their trust in each other to the test.

Fouad is caught, imprisoned, and when he comes out of prison decides to life with honor, and refuses the temptation of Mansour to return to robbery. Fouad is unfairly accused of stealing a bank, but the police chase him, he escapes with the real culprit and discovers that she is a thief who steals for her daughter's treatment

Abdel Aal forces his daughter Samira to marry a wealthy man. After his death, they discover his will to deprive his entire family of his wealth, except for his widow Samira, on the condition that she remain a widow and not marry after him. Asem, her husband's brother, tries to exploit the situation and force her to marry. She flees to Egypt, meets Magdy, falls in love with him, and is forced to impersonate a maid so that her secret is not revealed.

Moselhi is an account clerk in a company, watching what's happening around him from embezzlement carelessly, but some corrupt employees suspect that he's hiding behind his idiotic appearance. They send employee Laila who pretends that she loves him, to find out what he knows.

Tensions rise in the house of Suleiman Al-Nagy, the defender of the weak, because his son's wife, Radwana, fell in love with his other son Khider. When Radwana's husband Bark finds out, he accuses his brother of betraying him and tries to kill him but Khider denies the accusation and escapes.

While passing by one of the streets, Fathi witnesses a heinous murder, and the perpetrators escape with their crime. While watching TV, he discovers that one of the perpetrators involved in this crime is a powerful official named Al-Adwy. Al-Adwy's men try to take revenge on Fathi after he breaks his silence, and he cooperates with one of his friends to hide with him, disguising himself as a woman named Fathia.

The events of this film revolve around Hamdi (Farid Shawqi), who works as an officer in a prison. Hamdi is married and has a child suffering from paralysis, whose treatment requires a large sum of money.

In a representation of the housing problem in Egypt, a group of friends reunited by their search for an apartment encounter different problems as Kamal is looking for a place to turn into an art studio and Sherif is trying to find a place where he and his wife can live.

Amira is helping her family during its financial stringency but it starts getting troublesome for her so she goes to her father who has married another woman asking for help and money, they have a fight and after she comes back he's dead and now she's accused of the murder.

Musk and his friend are two young men who love two of their cousins. Musk disguises himself as a woman to convince the uncle of the girl he loves and the girl's father that the aunt has returned from abroad. The uncle falls in love with the woman and covets her wealth. He agrees for the two girls to marry Musk and Amber. Amber's uncle comes to compete with the uncle, and the American aunt herself comes from the United States.

Laila marries Ali but she suffers from his rigidity. They move to a secluded house in Alexandria. But Laila lives in boredom as her husband frequently travel to Cairo. She then gets attacked by three men who sexually assault her.

Samir is the head of a small family and a bank employee and stable in his work, but separated after the decision to reduce the employment and then surprise that his bank balance zero and after days find a box with a mobile phone to meet a call changed his life by recruiting him to spy on people through an organization called The Originals.

Dr. Radwan marries Karima, the daughter of a large conservative family. After years of successful marriage, Amjad,who is Karima's former love, appears. He tries to exploit her financially by making her believe that he still loves her. He invades her life in a fast pace to force her to surrender to him..

Ihsan arrives from Lebanon to Cairo, and works with his friend Marzouk in a nightclub. Massoud Bey asks them to perform at his daughter's birthday party. Then he learns that his brother died and Mabrouka, his niece arrives from the countryside, and he tries to kill her because she's the sole heir to his brother.

Gaber Abdel Ghaffar lives on stealing merchandise in Alexandria port, and one day he gets arrested and deported to the army to perform military service. He escapes from the army to Italy illegally, where he suffers from harsh living conditions, so he goes to an employment agency belonging to the Mossad and decides to work with them, offering his services in espionage.

University professor Ramsey returns from London after obtaining a PhD in English literature. He collides with students and cannot reason with them, including the three friends who discover the murder of their old beggar neighbor and are arrested for being in the same place.

A wrongfully convicted man falls in love with his fellow inmate. They decide to get married after their release and seek revenge on a corrupt businessman.

A Businessman's car breaks down near the house Rahmi, who decides to host him until his car is repaired. Rahmi and his friends play a game about a mock trial of the businessman for a crime he may have committed unintentionally, and the game turns into a tragedy that no one could ever imagined.

As a mentally unstable man goes to the house of a female official of ill repute, she asks him to hide, after which she gets murdered. The investigators continue to look for the murderer, and many become suspects during the course of the investigation.

Mustafa mattress in a textile company, is suffering badly from director Morsi. He is married to a man from the woman who loves money so much, buy Mustafa lantern magic in the month of Ramadan, and when he returns it to the House out of it Elf Afrckoh who tells him that under his command, is asked to Mustafa to become a manager rather than Morsi, Mustafa, Director becomes, and feels that he has become Huda employee in stature he loves. Morsi treated in the same cruelty, trying to Anchorage to understand the secret of wealth and prestige, which landed on the opponent, especially that of senior management to accept the establishment of Morsi.

A police officer from Upper Egypt is transferred to Marina, where he runs into some problems. As he tries to prove himself to his boss, he starts to fall for a girl who is his exact opposite in everything.

Marco is a gangster who arrives in Egypt to look for a person who can decipher the symbols engraved on a pharaonic treasure. Monir comes from Lebanon to track down Marco and he joins forces with Salah as they try to catch Marco and his gang.

Sabir Ali Tmana (Mohamed Ragab) a technology geek, who everyone calls him (Saber Google), his proficiency in a world of suspicious and illegal, which leads him to escape to a European country after one of those conflicts, but the risk continues.

The story of Khalid Ibn Al-Walid (592-642) the greatest military leader in the dawn of Islam during the life of prophet Muhammad and his caliphs Abu Bakr and Omar.

The story revolves around the quarrels that occur between (Rajab) and his friends on the one hand, and between (Tolba) and his friends on the other hand. (Sami) falls in love with (Amal), Rajab’s sister, even though he is a follower of Tolba. (Nawal), her brother's fiancée, warns her of this relationship. Sami separates from Tolba and goes to Rajab to ask his sister, Amal, to marry him.

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.

Three young guys Ismail, Refaat and Hamada rob the safe of an antique store. After that, they part, and each of them goes his own way. And when they have new financial difficulties, they meet again and agree to rob a bank together.

Ahmed opens a law office in one of the local neighborhoods, he gets involved with the wealthy neighbor, Awatif, who frames him in an embezzlement case after she knows that he got engaged. He gets suspended from practicing law and works in a tannery owned by Awatif.

Hamada, Salah and Hassan are three young men who are united by friendship and neighborhood, trying to stop some of the boss’s men who work in contraband. One day, these young men steal Harun’s car and run away with it until the police confront them, while Haroun is afraid of the car loaded with drugs.Only Haroun rescues them, who fears that the drugs will be exposed. The three friends go to conscription and join the Navy.

The film revolves around the family of Mr. Ahmed Abdel-Gawad through his second and third generations, which consists of Yassin and Kamal the younger son, and the sons of Aisha / Khadija, in the age of young people and political and social transformations and their impact on their maturity and life paths.

Ibraham the industrious student fall in love with his colleague Khayriyah and she also fall in love with him, but the rich student Hani admire her. Ibrahim is trying to hide his social level because he is afraid to lose Khayriyah, and telling everybody that he is from a wealthy family, will Khayriyah find the truth someday ?.

Ahmed likes Fatima, and feelings of love grow between the two, imagining that they are from noble families. A love story develops, and Ahmed asks Fatima to marry him. After the wedding, they have a son named Samir. One day, Fatima goes to visit Suad at her home, but the police raid the place because it is suspicious. Fatima is arrested, and her life is turned upside down.

Ammar (Amr Saad) is young artist, who falls in love with wealthy girl Nadine (Dorra), but her rich uncle Mahdy disapproves . They decide to get married without his knowledge. But Mahdy's men kidnap Nadine, severely beat Ammar and put him in prison after which his life completely changes.

An adaptation of the novel The Land of Zikola, about its hero, a young man from the village of Al-Baho ​​Frick, who finds himself one day in a land that does not deal with money like other people, and instead uses units of intelligence. Every work for money in our land is equivalent to a certain value of units of intelligence.

Hoda, a student in a boarding school, is neglected by her father at the behest of his wife. On her vacation, she spends time with her father. Her stepmother and her daughter, Sanaa, treat her badly. When Sanaa's fiancé Farid sees Hoda, he falls for her, as he feels that Sanaa is a reckless girl.

Zeinab's father dreams to have a decent Funeral like the ones of important society figures. will zeinab be able to achieve her father's wish?.

Ismail Yassin is in desperate need for money. He borrows from the wrong people, get framed for murder and goes to prison.

Sami is a young doctor who decides to return to his village again to work and open a clinic. He is impressed by the daughter of Mahmud al-Rashidi, one of the richest men in the village. He does not know that he is a drug dealer and has in the past killed his father.

Essam takes a loan from a contractor to buy a house, but the contractor starts blackmailing and threatening him to pay his debt.

A former minister decides to leave the bustling city and its problems and isolate himself on the northern coast to enjoy the tranquility, but the opposite of what he expected happens.

When Lamiaa goes to the police to find her brother's killer, officer Essam goes undercover to infiltrate the gang and tries to uncover the identity of the gang's leader and Lamiaa's brother's killer.

Abdullah, a car driver, is accused in the murder of the thug Magdy and a friend of the Ghanaian Nawal. This criminal escapes after he tried to defend himself, but the events follow and he is also accused of killing the Ghanaian Nawal, he lands in one of the villas where Murad and his wife live with their young son, and Abdullah takes from the house residents Hostages so he can escape

A historic drama that chronicles the story of Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt, and Mark Antony, the Roman commander who fell in love with her, and the war that Octavian ​​led to eliminate them, as the fate of the three intertwines in this conflict.