Discoveries from Egypt World Cinema

Many characters of different backgrounds with various problems have their lives intertwine, as they come together through the one thing that unites them; their love of Egypt as Egypt wins the African Cup.

As Magdy leaves Upper Egypt for a job, he befriends the playboy Sami who impresses him with his many relationships. After a chance meeting with Hanan, Magdy asks for Sami's help to get close to her, something that Sami is happy to provide and support with previous experiences.

Eight documentary makers decide to go to the location of Elsalam Ship which sunk years ago to make a new documntary where they face unforseen dangers.

Yusef and Alia, former high school sweethearts separated by fate, are brought together years later, forced to confront their past and whether their rekindled love can withstand their changed lives. They must determine if they can navigate the complexities of their new realities to find a second chance at romance.

Two sisters are abruptly separated, the eldest, Hasna, struggles to find her identity and place in the world.

When a technical error annuls the union of all married couples in Egypt, a journalist sets out to investigate rising marital issues— including his own.

A social romance that portrays the lives of 4 married couples who are friends. As they gather to celebrate the birthday of the daughter of one of them, their fundamental differences and their unstable marriages come to the surface as the men decide to leave for Alexandria.

Stuntman Badr the Diesel lives in a poor neighborhood. He meets Donia El- Sayad, a famous movie star, whose assistant, Afaf, is Badr’s Fiancée. When Afaf gets killed, he decides to seek revenge and find those who are responsible for her death

Ahmed Saad is a businessmen who has many affairs, because his wife Fahima neglects herself and takes care of her home only. Ahmed meets artist Suzy and promises to marry. When his son Zaki finds out ,he sacrifices himself and marries her in order to stabilize the house and gives up his fiancee.

Mahmoud son of Jaber abandons the owner of one of the factories for Hind daughter of Juma the chief worker in the factory, after he promised her to marry, Juma is injured work injury, and loses his arm and work, Jaber refuses to compensate him, and orders his son Mahmoud to stay away from Hind, and when Juma tries to claim his right and the right of his fellow workers, Jaber manages a crime to get rid of him.

Harley is a mechanical engineer who returned from the Gulf with his family to complete his university in Egypt, He is known for his speed and extreme intelligence, After graduating, He joins a gang and works as a transporter for them.

Regarded as one of the boldest films of the "liberal" 1970s, this award-winning classic is directed by the great Hussein Kamal and written by the controversial Ihsan Abdel Quoddous and featuring a superb cast. A color saturated melodrama and a profound analysis of seventies society and decadence.

This suspense-thriller looks into the hidden world of online hacking through several methods, such as social media, different forums, and so on. Yusuf, a brilliant engineering student, is behind a lot of the operations that are being talked about.

A wealthy woman who owns a designer cloth factory, goes to a lawyer asking to be divorced from her 3 months husband because he snores.

A young man who works as a singer in a local band led by his musician uncle,meets the girl of his dreams in a wedding and his uncle's wife helps him to marry her.

The events revolve around seven different stories and various characters, but they are linked by a mysterious corpse that moves between them sarcastically, causing them a lot of chaos in their lives in order to get rid of it.

(Abu Al-Layl) is a mysterious person who wears a mask on his face and no one knows who he is. He moves with a dog and completely controls the people of a town, and makes them carry out what he orders them to do whatever it is, because of their intense fear of him and the only one who can communicate with (Abu Al-Layl) whenever she wants She is (Duha) because of an affair between them, and (Ahmed) tries to do everything in his power to find out who (Abu Al-Layl) is and rid the town of its evils.

When a young man on the run crosses paths with a woman escaping her own troubles, the two become unlikely fugitives. Hunted by the law and framed by the media, they must fight to prove their innocence and survive the chase.

Rebel Ibrahim Hamdy assassinates a pro-colonial Prime Minister but is arrested and hides with a fellow university student, who initially refuses but eventually accepts him. Abdul Hamid Khatib meets Samia and her cousin, and Ibrahim uses the situation to hasten Samia’s marriage, which she rejects. Nawal, the youngest daughter, becomes the liaison between Ibrahim and his colleagues, helping him escape. Abdul Hamid tries to inform the political police of Ibrahim’s location, but Samia stops him. The head of the political police suspects them and punishes them to find Ibrahim. Ibrahim refuses to leave the country, returning to fight colonialism and participating in an operation.

While Hamada is in Abu Qir, Awad succeeds in hiding a set of valuable diamonds away from the police in Hamada's camera, and Hamada does not discover this, as he is with his two friends, Galal and Salah, spending some time having fun, but the diamonds turn their time into hell, and a gang begins chasing them in order to obtain those diamonds, led by Awad, who pushes Sonia to bring the diamond from the three friends.

After spending 30 years in prison, a man comes out to find out he has a son. Together with his son and a newly-acquired friend he resumes his criminal life.

Four university friends are perpetually vulgar. When one of them falls in love with her neighbor, her mother who sells pickles disapproves. Her friends try to help her but they get in trouble and always end up at the police station.

Freed after spending years in prison, an activist's homecoming turns into a dark affair as his disillusion clashes with his family's expectations. Demonstrating Chahine’s eclecticism, this is an elegant melodrama, exuberant musical, layered allegory, and profound portrait of personal and political disillusionment.

Set in the 14th century. Under their leader Timur, the Tartar hordes invade the Middle East and take over areas as widespread as Persia, Azerbaijan, Egypt, and Syria. A lowly woman from a harem (Lubna Aziz) rises to lead the Egyptians against the invaders.

College student Amina (Leila Alawi) and lawyer Ibrahim (Mahmoud Hamida) are in love but many social and economic reasons prevent them from getting married. They decide to marry customarily in the presence of friends as witnesses on the contract paper.

Based on the novel by Latifa al-Zayyat, which explores a middle-class Egyptian girl's coming of age against the background of the growing Egyptian nationalist movement before the 1952 Egypt revolution.

A seemingly traditional journey of a young sheikh in a governmental mosque who moves from leading prayers to becoming a TV celebrity issuing "fatwas" that are accepted by millions who have become fans of his as a result of his courage and his attempts to deviate from the usual religious rhetoric in a society heavily influenced by fundamentalism. From Behind the scenes that exposes religion and authority struggle - Mawlana is a movie that defy boundaries.

Omar and Alia are in love and decide to get married , but Omar discovers that her sister Fatima is infamous who works in a bar so he walks away from her, and marries Kismat , while Alia marries her childhood neighbor, but they do not find happiness and events escalate.

A child named Amr, the school's headmaster summons his guardian because of the problems he causes, but on the other hand his father Ragheb suffers from problems with his mother Sarah, who asked him to retrieve the memories of their love by grouping their high school students.

A rich man hires another man to marry his ex-wife.

In a comedic form, a love story is shared between the widowed engineer Hilmi Abdelkader (Rushdi Abaza), who works in the field of oil and has eight children from his late wife, the young widow Samia Ahmed and the mother of six children. After a long time they hide, get married and begin to put in place a system of life at home to make things go smoothly.

Ibrahim suddenly returns from abroad, to find his wife Safaa married to Ezzat. The couple seize his apartment and savings. Ezzat accuses Ibrahim of insanity in order to lock him up in a mental hospital where he's subjected to all kinds of physical and psychological abuse.

Adel is a journalist for a major newspaper, divorced and single, he was married before and has a daughter. One night, in the bar he always visits, he meets Nash'at al Kashef, the son of a the famous businessman Fahmy Al Kashef. Nash'at kills the bartender and he injures the belly dancer Nadia when she refuses to go back to his house with him. Adel calls the police, but Fahmy uses his power to get the accusation off his son. Adel succeeds in reaching Nadia, the only witness, and makes her confess what she saw to the police, who catch Nash'at and send him to court. Adel falls in love with Mosheera, daughter of Fahmy Al Kashef. The court finds Nash'at not guilty, so Adel decides to set justice to the case by his own hands.

Football player Kamal Naguib nicknamed (Congo) became the most prominent football player in Egypt, but when he runs over a police officer by mistake, he's sentenced to 3 years , he decides to form professional football team of fellow inmates in prison.

A sequel to The Treasure (Part 1) - Reality & Fantasy (2017) The movie resumes with the stories of Hatsheput in the Pharaonic era, Ali al-Zaibaq during the Ottoman era and Beshr al-Katatini, head of State Security Investigations Service, who faces new challenges in work and love, whilst pointing his son, Hassan, towards a treasure through his recorded will.

A poor medical student, falls in love with her wealthy colleague who does not feel her at the beginning. He falls in love with her after he sees the sincerity of her feelings towards him, and asks her to marry him, but there are those who want to keep this marriage from happening

Fatma had a crush on Dr. Hosny, a womanizer dentist she met, so she decided to convince him to hire her as his nurse. On the other side, Hosny is in the middle of a love story with Dalia, a Flower Shop owner who hates liars more than anything else.

The epic tale of three people who wake up from their long sleep after three centuries, to find themselves in a different time other than the one in which they lived before, as they struggle to deal with this unrecognizable world.

Dr. Mamdouh suffers from his wife's jealousy, although he is faithful,while his brother, Massoud has a wife who is always busy with the children. Ezzat, their cousin, advises them to follow his approach with his wife Saneya: he cheats on her, and at the same time showers her with love and respect.

The doctor (Medhat) returns from abroad after obtaining the doctorate, works at the hospital of Dr. (Adham), and progresses for the sermon (Nadia), the daughter of Dr. (Adham); causing (Ilham) the nurse; who loves him madly, to collapse.

The role of story in the comic film about a young playboy and loves stardom and fame, meet by chance with the actress Nelly Karim and falls in love and happen paradoxes comedy and evolving events

The events take place in a comedic context, where a businesswoman named (Magda) is exposed to many harassments, but she survives her enemies’ attempts to harm her, and is able to obtain her full rights from them.

While radio presenter Mourad follows social media stories, he comes across the stories of Dr. Alia, sued after being accused of having an affair with an assistant professor, and Mariam and Ibrahim who are separated by religion, among others. These stories draw Mourad’s attention to the full moon, rumored to destroy love.

Madiha, a student at the acting institute, is forced to disguise herself as a young man named Ismat to work in the music band formed by her three brothers. Hoda, the daughter of the club owner, falls in love with this young man, and her father announces her engagement to him. Things become complicated when the club owner asks Madiha, while she is in her true personality, to... She helps him make his wife jealous by acting as his new wife to discipline his condescending wife, and Madiha is forced to agree in order to ensure that her brothers continue working in the club.

This compelling tale of love and betrayal, set in the upper Egyptian countryside, follows the story of Amna as she plots her revenge on the engineer who destroyed her family's honor.

The events deal with the idea of ​​religious extremism and atheism affecting young people and its impact on society.

Alawi is a theater director, who lives an unstable family life, as his wife does not understand the nature of his profession, and seems very jealous over him, as it does not lead him to the requirements of the home as he likes, which causes Alawi to spend most of his time outside the home, while during his discharge he plays one of the plays invading Dosa, Which finds her innocence something different from his wife, and feelings of love grow between the two, the wife knows about the relationship, so she requests a divorce, and the women crowd with him after separating from his wife.

During WWII, a retired teacher decides to find a job. When he accepts a position in a private school in a small Upper Egyptian town, he moves there with his family, only to discover that the town is afflicted by an ongoing blood feud between two families.

The story revolves around Mursi (Adel Imam), a poor history teacher, married and suffering from an ambitious financial crisis in life, who gets involved with an old colleague at the university (Salwa), who runs her house for prostitution and hides him. Salwa uses the naiveté of Morsi to convince him that he attacked her He is drunk to press him to marry her pregnant.

Nadia is jealous of her husband in a satisfactory way, she discovers that he is in a relationship with a dancer and she falls into a psychological crisis that goes after her to a psychiatrist, finds her suffering from a double personality, exploits this medical analysis and recoils another personality and claims that she is related to another person, and in fact she relates to her previous fiancé and meets him and ignores her husband .

Mohamed is a soldier who finds himself in Gaza after the defeat in the 1967 War. He returns to his native village feeling broken and depressed after witnessing the deaths of his fellow soldiers. He still loves Fatima but her father wants her to marry Abbas who exploits the farmers and eventually rapes her.

Zeina wakes up from a faint to find herself blind and unable to remember anything. She ends up with Ahmed on his boat, who enters into a frantic chase with Rashid. After sitting alone in one of the boat's rooms, she tries to recall everything that happened to her through its recordings, including the details of the love triangle in which she herself was one of the sides.

Qarmouti builds a graveyard for his ancestors, and makes it a paid tourists attraction; this causes him lots of problems with the government. Meantime, a journalist videos an antiquities smuggling operation and the tape ends up with Qarmouti who finds himself chased by the smugglers.

A social comedy that tells the life of the street in Cairo in 2007 and 2008 through a taxi driver. We see daily dilemmas for the taxi driver through the taxi customers from all segments of the society in comical paradoxical paradoxes that reflect the spirit and rhythm of the Egyptian street in all its manifestations to see the state of a society full of shyness and surprise. .

Khairat, a sociology professor, meets the dancer Nunu and invites her to move in with him in order to conduct an experiment on her. When Nunu, who has fallen for Khairat, discovers the truth, she leaves the house and returns to the cabaret. Khairat discovers that he has fallen in love with her.

The porter (Arafa) suffers from sexual deprivation. He marries the infamous widow (Warda) but his work efficiency is reduced due to frequent sleep with his wife. Morsi arrives in the town and meets Arafa and his friend, the railway worker, Dasouki, to ask them about the bully Asran. They know that Morsi was commissioned by the wealthy Kilani to hire Asran To kill the contractor Fuad Minawi. Arafa claims that he is Asran and receives 2,000 pounds as a down payment to complete the process. Morsi discovers the trick and a battle between Arafa and Asran breaks out. Asran gets killed, but the medical report confirms that Asran died of a heart attack. Kilani asks Arafa to complete the crime, but Arafa refuses, and one of Kelani's agents kills Dasouki and fails to kill Arafa. Arafa decides to take revenge for killing Desouki.

A hooker decides to repent after she gets married and gives birth, but when she discovers that her husband is an addict, she convinces two of her friends to steal some jewelry, but things do not go well after the apartment owner and her child were killed during the robbery. Making her accused of a crime she didn't commit.

The film revolves around Saeed AL-Masri (Adel Imam), one of the pilots of the October War who lost his eye-sight after his plane crashed during the war. Saeed AL-Masri is forced to live in a home for disabled people that is managed by a very bureaucratic managers which they turn it into a prison.

The story of the two conjoined brothers, whom are exposed to funny situations, along with their cousin who got involved in their problems.

Three women seek justice due to the difficult daily situation which sexual harassment causes in the streets of Cairo, Egypt.