Discoveries from Egypt World Cinema

After Dr. Maged successfully treats Yasmine, she starts to fall for him. When his fiancée Maysa finds out, she tells Yasmine that she and Maged are engaged which causes Yasmine to relapse.

Kamal Fahmy is fired from his job in the police force due to his excessive cruelty. At the same time, Abbas, who is accused of killing Officer Kamal's brother, escapes. Nadia plays a role in Kamal Fahmy's life due to her friendship with him. At the same time, she is the sister of the fugitive Abbas. Kamal uses Nadia as bait to hunt down Abbas, but Kamal learns that Zaki Bey has prepared a huge reward for anyone who finds Abbas and brings him to him, dead or alive.

A man's life goes haywire when he discovers that he needs endless mobile apps and costly subscriptions to navigate an increasingly digital world.

A girl runs away from her strict father's house and is found by a traveling clown who works with the circus. She works with him to collect money from the spectators. She quickly grows up with him and works with him in all of his shows.

A wealthy girl falls in love with a famous actor, but her father refuses to complete the relationship out of respect for family traditions. The actor withdraws from her life out of respect for her family, and pretends to be in a relationship with a dancer. She leaves him and marries her cousin. The actor becomes addicted to alcohol, his condition deteriorates, and he leaves his job.

Set in a mythical small Upper-Egyptian village where people live off planting dates and making of Date Wine, a stranger arrives and calls on people to travel to the abroad for job opportunities, all of the village's grown-up men leave, except for the disabled grandfather and his grandson Ahmed, upon which trouble begins to spread in the village in the absence of men along with his lover Salma. Exploring themes of Rebellion, Desire, Masculinity, Patriarchy, Spirituality and the Ancient Egyptian Mystique.

A teacher loves Usta Hassan, the driver of a transport vehicle, and she tries to seduce him in various ways and fails because his heart is occupied with the love of his fiancée. The teacher, the head of a gang, becomes jealous of Usta Hassan because he has the teacher’s love, so he clashes with him, but Usta Hassan overpowers him, and when Hassan refuses to respond to the teacher’s desires, she tries to destroy him. .

Fatima learns from Dr. Wahid Farid that her husband left her a letter before his death, informing her that he intends to commit suicide. When he goes to Khorshid Bey's house, he is surprised that he is not dead and threatens him with a gun. Wahid pulls out his gun and kills his lover's husband. In front of the police, he tells the story, that he has known Fatima for a long time when she almost committed suicide, but Dr. Wahid gave her hope and asked her to marry him.

In the palace of a Pasha, the maid Shalabya and the driver Ali fall in love, but the Pasha fires them when he finds out. Shalabya starts working at a nightclub and grows famous. When she falls for Omar and decides to quit dancing for him, Ali tries to sabotage their relationship.

After Naguib marries Nawara, he deports her to Port Said, to get tight until Naguib is the head of the house, and she agrees with her friend (Safia) to lure her husband, Najib, so that she can threaten him and control the house, so that she can even give birth to that. With trade, she becomes a famous businesswoman. To escalate events.

Three friends, Mustafa, Magdy, and Ahmed, decide to work during their summer vacation. While they wait for the results, they rent a buffet to sell sweets, iced drinks, and sandwiches. Each of them has his dreams and ambitions. Magdy loves his colleague Nashwa and wants to marry her. Magdy does not know that his other friend Ahmed loves her the same way. While Ahmed loves music and aspires to become a famous singer, one of the dancers tries to cast her net on Ahmed.

Mohamed El-Asyouty lives with his wife Karima and their three adult daughters but he feels disappointed because he doesn't have a son to bear his last name and run the family business. When his two older daughters get married, they bring their husbands to live in the family home. However, the new son-in-laws prove to be a burden on the entire household.

Following the events of the first part, Mansour Al-Hefni escapes from prison and reunites with his son Ali and brother to return to the island to recover what they have lost. Mansour must stand against his old love Karima while the leader of the travelers tribe Sheikh Jaafar enters the conflict for rulership

A weekly magazine called Crime News announces a story competition. A group of young men submits a well-crafted story, but Ahmed, the magazine's editor, rejects it. The young men decide to take revenge on him. Ahmed takes his fiancée to the train station, and while he is returning, a girl named Hoda falls in front of his car and steals his car, and events escalate.

Youssef is a hotshot anesthesiologist who often sleeps in his car for privacy. Laila is the careerist host of a late night radio call-in show. These two members of Cairo's elite, lost souls traveling parallel paths of longing and disconnection, are the principal fish in Yousry Nasrallah's The Aquarium, a meditation on the intellectual capital of the Middle East, now bent under the sway of repression in all its forms.

Helmi is a rich man who lost all of his money and started looking for a job; and the only one he found is requiring him to get married first.

The story revolves around a combat nurse, her daughter's fiancé Nadia dies in an accident, and then she discovers that her daughter is pregnant, and when Nadia gives birth to her child Fathiya, the mother replaces her with a dead child.

When a young man looking for a good driving instructor for his mother receives a recommendation by an employee in one of the specialized driving schools to hire Hend (Ayten Amer), he soon starts falling in love with her.

A plastic artist suffers from extreme poverty. His friend convinces him to fake suicide so that he can become famous as a genius artist and sell his paintings. It turns out that this friend is trying to seize his paintings and his lover. The artist discovers his friend's betrayal and plots to expose him to everyone.

Abdul Qader lives a quiet and peaceful life with his family. His daughter Madiha marries Adel, who travels to work in an Arab country. His son Shukri falls in love with Rawya, but he opposes the marriage and pressures him to marry his cousin. Rawya decides to take revenge on Shukri and his father, for the former's failure and the latter's opposition, by trapping the father in her net.

Hassan has been haunted by feelings of guilt ever since his mother and sister died. He faces a challenging situation with his new job as the driver and bodyguard of a teenage girl, which may possibly help him redeem himself.

Sohair returns from abroad after her husband's death and meets her mother-in-law Fatima, who gives her a cold welcome. Sohair gives birth to her child, and Fatima makes her believe that the child has died, as she wants to seize her son's inheritance with the help of the mute girl Alfat, who decides to guide Sohair to her son's location. She discovers that the woman with her in the house is not her mother-in-law Fatima, but a woman impersonating her. When she decides to reveal the matter, she finds herself locked in the house, so Alaa, her husband's cousin, tries to help her.

While drunk Ahmed agrees with Wahid that he kills his stepfather, in return for Ahmed killing Wahid's wife Salwa in order to have her insurance policy. Wahid carries out the agreement, while Ahmed meets Salwa and confess to her the plan.

A girl searches for happiness, so she resorts to marrying a rich man to fulfill her ambitions, and leaves her poor lover. She discovers that he is an employee of her husband and that he is trusted, so she tries to restore her love.

Omar returns to Egypt after 28 years to take back his father's building which was seized by those who rented its apartments. When he fails to convince the owners of the bank that occupies the ground floor to leave, he decides to rob the bank.

The film revolves around Magda, who lives under extremely difficult social conditions and tries in vain to obtain an honest source of livelihood. She ends up pickpocketing on public transportation, and from there she picks up the lawyer Alaa with his knowledge. He searches for her everywhere out of his extreme love for her and his sympathy for her condition and case, with the help of his brother who works in the prosecution service.

A girl falls in sin and becomes pregnant ,and fled from her family for fear of scandal. She gives birth and leaves the baby and her brother Hamdan kills her. Two young men Mukhtar and Mustafa find the child and decide to raise him. While Hamdan searches for the man who seduced his sister.

A capable customs officer is being recruited by a gang to facilitate their smuggling operation. But as he seemingly works for them, he secretly plots with the police to foil their plans.

When it gets dark each evening a virtuous young lady transforms into a notorious flirt but remembers none of it the next day. She is treated by a psychiatrist who tries his best to find the root of her problems and cure her once and for all

Murad discovers that his stepmother Bahira, is betraying his father, but he kicks him out . Murad stays with his friend Mossad. Murad's stepmother plans to sell her husband's property. When the father dies, her lover kills her and steals the bag of money but Mossad surprises him and escapes with the bag.

A wealthy man, Aziz, marries a young wife but when they return to his estate, the wife struggles with her sexually impotent husband. Meanwhile, she notices a handsome young man working in the stable. Will she throw herself unto his arms to escape a wretched marriage?

A budding singer falls in love with his colleague in the dance troupe and they agree to get married. A famous dancer joins the troupe and falls in love with the singer, but he rejects her. The dancer decides to take revenge and create a quarrel between him and his lover.

Magdy is an engineer at the High Dam. He travels to Cairo to take some time off with his family. But his wife Dr.Laila, is too busy with her work, which drives him to spend time with his neighbor Elham, taking advantage of her husband's absence, and things develop rapidly

Hassan and Aziza find it very difficult to convert the story of their love for marriage ... so they decide to recite the characters of Romeo and Juliet, as their story is similar to that of Shakespeare. They change their name to Julio and Romett, dressed close to the novel, and then flee to Alexandria to spend their last night before committing suicide by poison.

The film revolves around a romantic comedy about Sherif, who has many female relationships, and his cousin Mohsen, who comes from the countryside and always gets into trouble because of his many romantic adventures, while in the end he falls in love with Nora, the simple girl.

The film displays the life of legendary singer(Abd Alhalim Hafez) in various stages. Depicting many sides of his artistic and personal life since his early childhood.

A beautiful girl falls in love with a simple employee and surrenders herself to him, only to discover that he doesn't love her as he forsakes her. When her brother finds out what happened, he decides to take revenge on him and chases him everywhere.

Set in old Cairo, Hassouna (Hamdy Gheith) is a mean thug who collects money from people for protection. He prosecutes Ashour El Nagy's (Ezzat El Alaily) family, who transform from wealth to poverty. Hassouna forces Ashour to divorce his wife and leave the neighborhood, and then tries to marry her.

Three female police officers: Sanaa, Samah and Samia, are assigned by their boss to follow up on three cases of kidnapping girls who were walking in the street, a case of kidnapping children from hospitals after their birth, and white slave gangs that help girls in the field of prostitution, including the Balabel gang. The three female officers deal with these cases with cunning and deceit.

A Basha is furious when he learns that his son Zaki had an affair with his cousin Hosnia, he also knows that she's pregnant. He makes her marry Ibrahim, one of the peasants working in his land, who rejoices at first but after the sixth month of his marriage, he finds Hosnia giving birth to a child.

Murad Salem is a rich man who is used to getting what he wants whenever he wants it. When he meets a beautiful woman in Alexandria, he wants her as wife number thirteen. He buys himself into the heart of the woman, until a well-meaning, former fiancée of her husband tells her just how many times he has been divorced. The new bride launches into a series of ploys that keep her away from the marriage bed.

Mahmoud is in a relationship with his cousin whose father, his rich uncle, appointed him as his company's manager. When Mahmoud starts an affair with a girl, she tries to get him to wed her. Fearing a scandal that would cost him everything, he kills her.

A girl faces trouble with her family, as she loves acting and wishes to become an actress, but her mother stands in the way of this hobby. A playwright discovers her, is convinced of her talent, and promises to allow her to work in the play instead of her mother. The girl memorizes the role and discovers that her mother has memorized the role as well, as the mother dreams of the years of glory.

Na'ma is a beautiful girl who lives in a local neighborhood. As some of her dangerous neighbors start to pursue her, her brother is forced to step in to protect her from their harassment. Meanwhile, Na'ma falls into a lot of suspicious relationships.

Magdi examines the body of a woman and tells her that her death is the result of a nuclear radiation. The search leads him to the company of businessman Said, where the dead man was working

The daughter of two Bedouins who married against the will of the two warring tribes, and were killed by their respective families. The girl found herself in danger, so she took refuge in the city and worked in the circus. After she learns her origin, she returns to her tribe, but the tribe rejects her. She falls in love with the son of the tribe’s sheikh. There is a raid on the tribe’s members. The girl tries to participate and wears the clothes of a knight.

A young man, who has little experience in life and looks at everything around him from one perspective, goes through a one-day journey that makes him question all his notions.

Naeel is on the edge to lose his job, as a creative director he must come up with a campaign on drugs. He will do whatever it takes to execute the drugs campaign.

The events of the playhole story in Istanbul 1995 revolve around Bahloul, a young man who always fails to study. His neighbor, who lives with him, loves him as the dancer (jewel). The owner of the property loves him.

Egyptian farmer Abdo and his wife Saniya are desperate for a child, which leads them on a daunting journey to New York City for infertility treatment. The treatment itself is intimidating but the couple faces an additional hurdle: they don't speak the language and are unfamiliar with the American way of life.

Follows the young man Saber, who works in a horror house in an amusement park, as he achieves his dream of designing a marionette doll called Shalaby, he soon goes through exciting events with his friends and neighbors in their pursuit of fame as they prepare a puppet show.

The events revolve around a talented young man named Zaki, who seeks to become a famous singer and actor. While striving to achieve his dream, he goes through many exciting comedic situations.

In Post-War Lebanon, after Taif Accord in 1989, and the Syrians withdrawal from Lebanon,seemingly disconnected at first, the stories reveal an interconnection, particularly with an Egyptian director seeking societal freedom in Beirut falls victim to its repression.

Noha and Ahmed are in love but face a series of complications before getting married due to their traditional parents

A high school teacher volunteers to transform five notorious misfits into model students and has unintended results.

Zaatar is a thief who works for Zaghloul the owner of an import and export company. Zaghloul exploits Zaatar and makes him smuggle goods from customs. Zaatar gets to know Siham,the sister of officer Mohammed, and they fall in love and he starts working on his own and competes with Zaghloul.

Officer Hussein dies in a terrorist operation, and his friend, broadcaster Sameh, takes care of raising his son Tamer, who saw his parents killed in front of him, until a family member takes him in.