Discoveries from Egypt World Cinema

Egyptian comic comedy show, sarcastically Samir Ghanem and Dalal Abdel Azizi, Truhi story brothers brothers brother wants to live the lives of the rich and live the other living poverty and hardship, one of them to the other with the help of Dalal Abdul Aziz and a group of madmen one of the machinations to be replaced places And the other is dominated by money and the life of his brother, interspersed with the play comedy scenes and is considered one of the dramas of Samir Ghanem

Stunning and surreal, this hybrid documentary finds a group of hotel staff reflecting on their life, hopes and dreams in a deserted Egyptian holiday resort.

An international gang steals a piece of diamond called (the Eye of Life) from Paris and transports it to Cairo. The gang works to hide the precious gem inside a store that sells children’s toys, and in a specific game. Mona comes to the toy store to buy a toy for her little brother. He admires one of the toys and, by pure coincidence, finds a hidden diamond inside it.

Souad is in love with the daughter of one of the merchants (Ahmed), who works for her father, but her father forces her to marry the teacher (Sayed), so she marries him, but she suffers a lot in her married life, but as fate would have it, her husband is involved in an accident while he is travelling.

Egyptian filmmaker Yasmina El Kamaly reflects on her family’s matrilineal history by examining her relationship with her mother, as well as the complicated bond between her mother and grandmother. Using journals, home videos and letters, she locates their longing for affection and the dysfunctional ways they go about getting it—offering and rebuffing attention, smothering and straining love—as the root.

A famous singer who abstains from marriage meets a girl at a charity party and they fall in love with each other. He proposes to her and everyone agrees, but the authorities invade their lives and the girl marries the king of the country. Farid collapses and falls ill. Do you think the girl will marry Farid and leave the Emir of the country? Or will Farid fall into the well of loneliness and illness?

The widow, Wafiya, is surprised that she has to pay a sum of money to the bank to pay off her husband's debt. Adham proposes to her daughter Farha in exchange for paying the sum, and she agrees. They agree to keep their marriage a secret. Adham dies and his father, Mahmoud, and Saeed are surprised by his marriage. The lawyer waits until Farha gives birth to determine the division of the inheritance. The brothers agree with the midwife to strangle the newborn in exchange for giving her a sum of money.

In a small Egyptian town, Zeinab, a young girl, strongly believes in myths and superstitions. With the help of Noah, her Christian neighbor, she abducts her mother’s body. During the escape journey, both Zeinab and Noah are confronted with many of the myths and fears they so strongly believed were true.

Hilal tries to steal the wealth of his cousin, the Upper Egyptian girl, but she succeeds in confronting him, so he tries to take revenge on her by killing her to win that wealth, but she escapes his plan, so her cousin plots a crime and convinces her that she is the murderer, and she falls into the clutches of a hypnotist, who exploits her to collect a fortune by making people believe that he is summoning the spirit of a pharaonic princess.

"Wahiba - Queen of the Gypsies" - dancing, music, exoticism and forbidden pleasures.

Ahmed, an archaeologist, and his wife Zahira, a school principal, get preoccupied with their careers that they neglect their children, causing Thoraya to adopt an extremely liberal approach to life, Samira to become weak in character, and Hisham to turn to theft. Can they be saved?

The film takes place in an action frame, where a girl is being chased by an unknown person for hours, so she is confused about the reason that led him to do so.

A woman works as an accountant and is preoccupied with her work rather than the affairs of her home and family. She also neglects her duties towards her husband, which causes the husband to feel humiliated and his status as a man and as a husband shaken. Accordingly, relations develop with the husband who rejects her work, which she strongly clings to. But in a moment she almost loses her husband and home and compares them to work.

A group of friends gathers to celebrate the wedding of two of them, and they suggest spending the night role-playing and doing charades where they represent each others' characters, with their merits and demerits. Can what started as a game end as a trial?

In a journey of a racing mind on guilt and death; Zakaria is prohibited from eating chicken by the doctor’s orders, driven by his fear of the consequences of breaking the rules and giving in to his desires he abstains completely from chicken even to the afterlife. Zakaria is an adaptation and a tribute to the Nobel Prize winner Naguib Mahfouz's novel "Dreams".

The film revolves around a young writer who meets many people and listens to their problems and dreams. Through the stories of these individuals, the film explores the social issues plaguing society. The topics addressed include the commercialization of medicine, neighborhood issues related to maintenance, and the phenomenon of begging as a profession. The film shows that the dreams and problems of these characters reflect those of the viewers themselves

Mustafa and Amal are engaged and preparing to get married, but Amal's mother dies and Amal is unjustly imprisoned by a businessman named Mahmoud. Her fiancé seeks to prove her innocence of what was attributed to her.

Hamed is a young man whose mother wants him to marry a village girl, but he falls in love with a Roma girl named Khaleda who works as a singer

The film presents the story of the gallant thug Abdo Al Muhar, who controls Ezbet Abu Hashish and is exposed to many exciting events.

Adam takes on a job as a night watchman at his old school and dives into a parallel world made of his most poignant memories. As reality and imagination collide, Adam is forced to reset his own boundaries and take command of his life.

Marwan directed this film while he was a student at Victoria College. It expresses his dream as a director and his relationship with the school. This film is the second film directed by a student at the school, after Youssef Chahine's Victoria College graduate film "As Students".

The play revolves around Abdo (Mohammad Najm), who works at Amani (Vivian) in a strange job, to prevent her from interviewing Shaukat (Mahmoud al-Qal'awi) her ex-husband who tries to exploit her and grab her money but does not know how to get away from him even though she knows well his bad intentions . (Abdu) agrees to a physical reward of half a million pounds to prevent her from making mistakes. Abdu tries to prevent her husband from stealing her money because of his strange job.

A musician at the beginning of his artistic career, and his neighbor is a dancer. The musician and the dancer are neighbors. The dancer knows one of the men that the musician is her husband, but in reality he is her lover, and that the man is able to help him with his company. In the company, he meets this man’s daughter. A love relationship develops and they agree to Marriage, but her father does not approve of this marriage.

Lawyer Adel Abdel Aziz faces a terrible event that turns his life upside down as a result of his honor and dignity. Accordingly, he decides to adopt a surrogate plan, taking matters into his own hands and avenging himself.

Love may control hearts, but if it controls minds, this is the disaster that Nadia falls into, who is madly in love with her cousin Ahmed, despite his relationship with his colleague Marwa. Nadia tries to attract her cousin’s attention, and amidst these matters, comedic pranks and paradoxes occur.

When the revolution in Syria turned into war, Nidal Al Dibs and his family fled to Cairo. There, he started filming his Egyptian friends as they attempt to reopen a long-closed cinema in their impoverished neighborhood. As this endeavor proves to be more and more difficult, Nidal turns to managing renovations of his house back in his troubled homeland.

A wealthy man, Luke, lives happily with his wife, a refugee from the Caucasus, and their daughter. When a cousin, accompanied by a charming woman, visits them, the family man will fall into the trap and give up his wife. She will leave their daughter together, and she will become a singer. Luke, having suffered the extortion of his cousin and given him a large sum of money, will seek his wife and ask her to forgive him.

A friendship relationship develops between the child Mamdouh, the son of a wealthy family, and Fathia, who is from a poor family. Days go by and the two children, Mamdouh and Fathia, separate. Mamdouh becomes an officer in the army, while Fathia, after losing her family, works in a cabaret. Mamdouh and Fathia meet after all these years and return to the memory of the past. So he decides to marry Fathia.

Artist Friday "the Animal" escapes after 7 years imprisonment. While US CIA agent Aretha Steel and lieutenant Hossam Hagag, interrogate Zaher Block, Friday's closest prison mate, Friday is wrecking havoc making mock-"snuff" cinematic parodies to avenge himself. Friday's core trauma had been during his experience of cinema, not of prison. The line between reality and fiction may be blurry; their perennial violence is one.

Amshir works as a bodyguard in the cabaret owned by his Medhat al-Shamshiri, and a court sentences Medhat to a month in prison after he burned the mustache of a wealthy Upper Egyptian named al-Najawi. Amshir goes to prison instead of Medhat for money. in meanwhile Medhat relation with Azhar (al-Najawi girl) is revealed to Sohair (Medhat Fiance).

In the slums of Cairo, youth dancing to electro chaabi, new music that blends folk song, electro beats and freestyles chanted in the style of rap. The idea is to merge the sounds and styles so chaotic. One slogan mangling! Victim of corruption and social segregation, youth in neighborhoods exorcise partying. Release of body and a speech repressed transgression religious taboos: more than just a musical phenomenon, Electro Chaabi is a healthy outlet for youth oppressed by the prohibitions imposed.

Hatim is a businessman working in the field of contracting and building housing. He finds himself accused in a public opinion case, which is the collapse of the buildings he built. He discovers that his men who help him did this without him noticing. A confrontation occurs with his brother, and he kills his brother.

A year ago (December 7, 2024), history was being written Marwan Pablo, performing alongside a full symphony orchestra (The Cairo Celebration Choir Orchestra, conducted by Maestro Nayer Nagui), in the second edition of Red Bull Symphonic in Egypt.

A Mamluk Sultan wants to wed his niece, Princess Najma, to his heir Antar, but the princess refuses so the Sultan forces her to marry the young prisoner, Hilal. When a terrorist plot to kill Prince Antar fails, the terrorists decide to use Hilal to get to Antar.

A man suffering from delirium because of the secrets he hides.

Police officer Adel claims that he resigned from his job in order to expose a criminal gang in a company where his father works. Adel's sister Souad falls in love with Mahmoud, who cannot find work despite obtaining a doctorate, and becomes pregnant from him. Adel manages to arrest the gang and prove his father's innocence, and Mahmoud marries Souad.

The film deals with the story of the life of the four caliphs, Abu Bakr al-Siddiq, Omar ibn al-Khattab, Othman ibn Affan, Ali ibn Abi Talib, the form of society at the time, and the events and personalities that influenced the history of Islam.

The events revolve around the young engineer, Hussein, who suffers from the mad jealousy of his wife and is accused of a murder he had nothing to do with, which destroys his family life.

On New Year's Eve, everyone is worried about himself... except for the Batal... who took it upon himself

Shehata works as an accountant in a store that sells birds, arrives to him a letter bearing the news of his acceptance to a new job as an accountant in endowment properties, it happens that a dancer claims that she has a child from the son of the endowment overseer and leaves him for him and everyone knows that there is a child called Helmous, and they don’t know him either a mother or father. The daughter of the head of the endowment takes advantage of this event and claims to be the mother of the child from Shehata.

A girl loves singing and is looking forward to meeting a famous singer to fulfill her dream. At the same time, the owner of a gas station loves composing and seeks to fulfill his dream of meeting the same singer. The three meet at the gas station and many paradoxes occur between them.

Ali is an artist, a poet, and a sailor who loves life, with a gypsy demeanor. He carries his lover Layali on the wings of his madness. They live moments of pleasure that combine all the rituals of love, and they decide to get married. But one of Ali's friends puts a sleeping pill in her and rapes her. She punishes herself by working as a dancer in a modest nightclub.

Al-Qarnafli (Hussein Al-Sherbini) leads a gang that specializes in stealing safes in the shops. He already succeeds in carrying out many operations, until the police puts a plan to catch him.

Four female friends from Egypt with opposing religious, social, and political views listen to one another's perspectives and argue openly, without ever breaking the bond that unites them.

Sami Al-Gohary works with an international drug-dealing gang that operates in Egypt. When he gets arrested, the gang manages to break him out, and the police tirelessly try to re-catch him.

CATS, SEA, FISHERMEN AND SUNSET. The sequel to the original Love Poems. A short documentary Film capturing beautiful shots in the City of Alexandria followed by a Poem written for the city by Salma Torrez.