Discoveries from Egypt World Cinema

The Square looks at the hard realities faced day-to-day by people working to build Egypt’s new democracy. Cairo’s Tahrir Square is the heart and soul of the film, which follows several young activists. Armed with values, determination, music, humor, an abundance of social media, and sheer obstinacy, they know that the thorny path to democracy only began with Hosni Mubarak’s fall. The life-and-death struggle between the people and the power of the state is still playing out.

Ragab, a poor sailor, returns home to Alexandria after three years of absence, during which he tried to save money to marry his one true love, Hamedah. But there's trouble on the harbor, and with an old friend.

Aziza lives with her late stepmother Fahima and her husband Atris. Salem is working to save the amount of money to buy a dear land where his hometown Awad aspires. Fahima manages the price of the land and gives it to Salem to accelerate his marriage to Aziz, who is rivaled by students in her love. Students try to kill him and in his attempt to defend himself, Salem kills him. Awwad kills Radwan for revenge between the two families. As his brother Chases students to Salem, Atrees dies and Salem is injured in his arm.

The movie revolves around two friends, Mamdouh and Salah, who get to know Amina and Hanan as they travel by boat. They also meet Yusuf, who is carrying a coffin for one of the deceased to be buried abroad, but in fact there is a jewelry in the coffin that he is trying to smuggle.

Jannah, the little daughter of a belly dancer, roams excised from her mother’s body, in search for a medical lab.

Two brothers who are looking for a job, find themselves in many comedic situations during their search journey and when they work in professions they know nothing about.

The story deals with the story of the widow (Huda), who suffers from problems with her husband's brother who wants to take over her inheritance and her children, and the problems between them come to court, while trying to help a young student carrying a colleague from her, Upside down .

Said the officer in Vice Squad is shocked by the decision of his boss to stop the investigation into the case of Alia Hanim because of her connections with officials and turns into a rigid person. When Said has information that some women visit a flat and practice fornication , he tries to prove the charge against them even by falsification.

A film highlighting the issue of street children and the marginalized social class living under the pressure of economic conditions in a shanty district. Nahid escapes from her stepfather’s harassment only to become a victim of a horrible rape incident. She then becomes a dancer.

A young man is shunned by his friends after he starts an affair with a dancer.

Samia (school teacher) and Murad (movie writer) met in alexendria by accident . After they date for sometime ,they get married. their new life together came with consequences they have to deal with.

Amer shares with Saif in counterfeiting dollars, Amer leaves the money bag in his car. The young Hussein steals the car and is sentenced to three years in prison for failing to prove that he does not own the bag. Amer cedes his apartment to Saif, who demands him for the value of the bag, and writes him a check for the rest of the amount. Hussein is released and tries to convince Amer to confess the truth.

The biblical tale of Joseph is told from an Egyptian perspective in this interesting character study. In this film, Joseph is called Ram. Ram, tired of his family's backward superstitious life, and tired of being picked on by his brothers, wants to go to Egypt to study agriculture. His brothers travel with him across Sinai, but then suddenly sell him to Ozir, an Egyptian who works for a Theban military leader, Amihar. Amihar is impressed by Ram's drive and personal charm and so grants Ram some desolate land outside the capital. Ram soon finds himself a pawn in the political and sexual games between Amihar and his wife Simihit, a high priestess of the Cult of Amun.

The play tells the story of four siblings trying to stop their father from leaving his family for another woman after one of them accidentally finds a love letter from an unknown woman to their father.

When a young businessman goes through a crisis, he finds that his only hope is a holy woman who starts to help him.

The film is an adaptation of a novel by Ismåeel Walieddin. The main character, Ahmad, leaves rural eastern Egypt for the city hoping to become economically self-sufficient, gets an apartment for his parents, and obtains a law degree. He and his family are refugees from a town occupied by the Israeli army, Ismaåilia. Ali, the owner of the Malatily Bathhouse, offers to let him stay there for free. Ahmad encounters several characters there, including Naåeema, a prostitute who he becomes obsessed with, and Raouf, a homosexual man.

Osama becomes impotent after a car accident. When he grows distant with his fiancée Salwa, she gets close to the poor singer, Nader, whom she lies to and pretends to be just as poor. As they team up for work, she meets Osama at a party and tries to use Nader to make him jealous.

When Siham passed away, Namir didn’t realize that she was gone forever. In a child’s mind, mothers are immortal… To keep her memory alive, Namir delves into his family history across Egypt and France. With the cinema of Youssef Chahine as his companion, a story of exile — and above all, of love — begins to unfold.

Salwa's new life as the wife of a prominent college professor is jeopardized when the past comes calling in the form of the director of the General Intelligence Directorate who wants her to take up her old task of seducing important figures. When she refuses, he threatens to reveal her past.

Ahmed falls in love with an American girl called Kristy whom he takes to Cairo for a family visit, causing many paradoxes due to the difference in customs and traditions. Kristy is surprised to learn that Ahmed wants to marry her and stay in Egypt, which she has not taken into account.

A group of prisoners breaks out of prison using an underground tunnel that leads them into a school. When they discover where they are, they decide to remain in the school until further notice, but Ms. Tam Tam pushes back against them.

When Khaled and Ahmed are unable to find a job, they decide to run a scam on elderly female tourists to get their money in Hurghada. But when they meet two girls who capture their hearts, they turn their lives around and participate in a tourist project.

Set in the suburbs of Cairo in the late 1930s, the story follows a middle-class Egyptian family grappling with the hardships of life after the death of their father, their sole breadwinner. The mother and her four children—three brothers and their sister, Nefisah—struggle to avoid slipping into poverty. They all go in different directions which aren't exactly good.

Omar marries Nesma despite her father's objection. After the wedding ceremony, they're attacked by unknown men. During her escape, Nesma is injured. Awakening from a coma, she refuses to see Omar because she doesn't feel safe with him. He goes to a psychiatrist to help him solve the problem.

Abboud lives a reckless life with his two friends. He knows that he will not enter the army because he's an only child. But when his father marries another woman who gives birth to a boy, Abboud is forced to join the army in spite of being unfit, working at the border with his friends.

Ali is a young man in his twenties who hunts doves. His relationships and vision of life develop, and he reaches the age of forty, which changes his outlook on everything he experiences in life, starting from his marital relationship to all his other human relationships.

Hamada is so desperate to get rich that he participates in all TV competitions hoping to win one day. Fate smiles on him and he indeed wins a sum of 1 million dollars. But life is not a wish-granting factory, is it?

When Khalil and Zahia discover a deep dark secret about their newly married parents, they find themselves on a rollercoaster of unexpected events.

After the US invasion of Iraq, an Egyptian headmaster sponsors a young inventor to create a deterring weapon out of fear his country will be next.

10 filmmakers provide 10 separate stories focusing on the 18 days of the 2011 Egyptian revolution. Ten stories they have experienced, heard, or imagined.

Heema finds out that he has a brother. He accepts him in his life because he needs him to paint an exact copy of an expensive painting , that he plans to steal and smuggle to Thailand.

University graduate works as a school bus driver after failing to find a proper job, where he unexpectedly falls in love with a school teacher, who is the love interest of an evil businessman. Of course you don’t already know that she will be loving the "King of Generation", after all, who wouldn’t?

After a terrorist church bombing in Tanta, the body of an employee at Al Pasha Women's Beauty Centre, Nadia, is discovered. The center owner, Nour Al Pasha, and female workers are in trouble about the need to cover up the incident, which is mostly a suicide, in order to preserve the center's reputation amidst intense competition. While Al Pasha tries to obtain a burial permit unofficially and illegally, the workers get involved in trying to find a way to wash Nadia for burial secretly. Nevertheless, they face multiple successive difficulties. Hence, each one of them recalls her relationship with Nadia. They confront their realities and actions, as well as what Al Pasha represents in their extremely harsh and unpredictable lives.

Taymour and Shafika have grown up together as next door neighbours and are deeply in love. However, their love is put to the test when he is assigned to protect her as her personal body guard when she is promoted to the level of Minister.

Sara and Ali have been close friends since childhood, and together, they face many different situations and problems with their friends and families, but some changes suddenly occur in their relationship.

A doctor finds herself criminally involved in a baseless crime after a minor accident causes unbelievable mischief and trouble. She spends her days in police stations, security services and hospitals waiting for her lawyer to prove her innocence.

Heba is a TV presenter interested in broadcasting stories that touch on the everyday secret lives of women and the social injustices they face. Her frank style in broadcasting puts her husband's job and consequently her marriage in jeopardy.

In a cotton-farming village in Sudan, teenage Nafisa is raised on heroic tales of battling British colonizers told by her grandmother, the village matriarch Al-Sit. But when a young businessman arrives from abroad with a new development plan and genetically engineered cotton, Nafisa becomes the center of a power play to determine the future of the village. Awakening to her own strength, Nafisa sets out to save the cotton fields – and herself. Neither she nor her community will ever be the same again.

The trader Sayyed Qeshta, is married to an infertile woman. One day, a playful girl starts approaching Qeshta after his money, and manages to make him fall for her, despite her relationship with a poor man. Eventually Qeshta divorces his wife and starts a new life with the girl in hope of having a child.

A love story begins between Isabel, the daughter of the French governor of Rosetta, and the Egyptian Selim, so her father sends her to France, where she resorts to a Moroccan sorcerer to bring her Selim. The sorcerer gives her a box of drugs and asks her to send it to Selim so that he can use it to come to France, but Selim is arrested. Time passes, and someone finds the box in the modern era.

Reda, a young salesperson meets Malak in the railway station who asks him to play the role of her husband before her rich parents who live in Upper Egypt.

Fahmi Abdul Hadi .. A distinguished student of law school .. His dreams are simple and his actions are ideal and pure .. Fahmi collides with the bitter reality of life when losing his mother because he cannot afford the price of her treatment. At a time, He watches his colleagues around him spend money like water and making fun of his poverty and even refuse to help him to treat his mother. Fahmi decides to abandon the idealism and take revenge of all who failed him.

A prince of the former royal family finds himself without a meaningful role in post-revolutionary Egyptian society. Based on the play by Tawfiq el-Hakim.

A young boy who comes from a broken home, grows up to be a ruthless criminal, then destiny leads him to fall in love with a beautiful girl, and he tries to get money to start a new life with her by doing one last crime.

Based on the best-selling novel of the same title. Dr. Shukri Mokhtar is a renowned social psychology specialist, best known for his ability to answer the simplest questions, who decides to give one last lecture about the very simple question: "how do we love?" He gives a full description of the different stages of love by recounting four different love stories going through curves and various crises.

Dr. Amal decides to move from Cairo to Saloum in an attempt to escape the memories of her fiancé's death in a car accident. She meets the playboy teacher Hani, who was transferred to Saloum as punishment for his disrespect and misconduct. They develop feelings for each other that turn into love.

Madbouly works at Al-Basha mansion with his wife and two sons. Al-Basha has a playboy son named Mohsen who commits a murder and asks his father to find someone to take the fall instead of him. He negotiates with Madbouly to go to prison instead of Mohsen in exchange for money . Madbouly agrees and events escalate.

The play deals with the life of a young Saidi called (Fares), who was sent by his father to complete his education in Cairo, but returned without completing his studies, then (Fares) falls in love with a girl who works with him in the Mawlid.

University law professor Dr. Soliman meets the hooker Ibtisam, and goes to spend the night with her in her home but clashes with her lover Tawfik and kills him in self defense. While Soliman is taking the body to his car , a friend of Tawfik sees him and begins to blackmail him.

Adam is the son of a wealthy Egyptian-American family who is studying at UCLA and returns home for a brief vacation. Upon his arrival he meets beautiful reporter Hanane, with whom he begins an intense love affair, and eventually they marry. Trouble arises when Hanane' s journalistic interests lead her to the corrupt business affairs of Adam's parents, who are interested in building an American tourist compound that would allow Americans further control of Egypt's tourist industry, and make them a whole lot richer.

A gay Egyptian couple return from America for a family emergency. In this homophobic environment, their secret threatens to unravel under anxiety, unease, and suspicion that someone is using witchcraft to send them back.

Hazem is a spoilt young man and a womaniser who takes advantage of his father's wealth to know more and more girls and stays away of commitment. When his father discovers what Hazem is doing, he starts to look for an appropriate wife for his son. Salma, is the lucky candidate who is desperately trying to change her husband's behaviour.

Saber Effendi works as a tailor for men, but his major problem is that he suffers from a great depression because of his lack of fashion and refuses to develop his ideas about fashion until his wife, Huda, who works in a Syrian magazine interested in fashion, suggests that he change his activity to become a tailor for women rather than men. Implementation plan.

Three stories written by Ihsan Abdul Quddus about three thieves, their circumstances differed, and their motives for theft differed.The first steals from a traitorous wife believing that this is his right, and the second steals a public bus in order to quickly reach his sick wife, the third steals his old aunt to be able to get married.

Inspired by the 1950s cinema screenings in Cairo's sha'abi quarters, this double feature includes a space odyssey and a farm animal protector.

Follows a plastic surgeon, Dr. Nabil, who owns a beauty clinic through which he is exposed to many comic situations along with his colleague.

Ahmed decides to return to Egypt to settle down after years of exile, but his plans are quickly disrupted when his uncle Ahmed is injured in a mysterious accident and loses his memory. He discovers his uncle's shocking secret about his leadership of a dangerous criminal empire.

After we last see him in "Alexandria, Why?" Egyptian filmmaker Yehia Mourad is in his thirties, and successful in his work, he has grown distant from his wife and children and suffers a symbolic blockage of the heart while shooting the final scenes of his latest film. After being flown to England for evaluation, it's determined that Yehia must undergo emergency surgery. Fact and fiction blend seamlessly—with healthy doses of cleverly absurdist fantasy—as the film explores the various personalities and forces that have made Yehia (and Youssef Chahine) the man he has become.

Kamal is a university student who is in love with Nora the daughter of a ruthless businessman who rejects him because he is poor and thus plots to keep him away from her. With the help of his friends they try to solve his problem especially after Kamal's father has been unjustly arrested for a crime he did not commit.

As an ambitious teacher goes to work at Al Safa High School for Girls, he is exposed to many funny situations, and his life is intertwined with different people.