Discoveries from Egypt World Cinema

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Fathallah, the businessman, seeks to make a deal with Jaafar, who suffers from not having children, which causes him to deal with anyone who has a wife or pregnant.

The story follows the poor girl Wafaa who works in a beauty center, and has an affair with the husband of the center's owner. When she gets pregnant by him, she decides to commit suicide, but the delivery guy Mohsen saves her life, and they spend an exciting night together.

The myth of returning the body of the king (Set Nakht) the god of evil to the ancient Egyptians for life, and returning him to rule for the sake of controlling mankind, the focus of interest of evil groups for thousands of years until now ... Much of the blood of the bodies of innocent people asked sacrifices waiting for the hour of the return of the god (six) So is the time approaching? Will journalist (Salma) reveal the secret of the legend?

In a society that knows nothing but passing judgment on others, this pattern is clearly reflected in the life of someone striving to create something different , professionally and beyond societal norms.

The events revolve around "Aisha" a veiled girl who accompanied by a friend, goes to a shopping center to buy some items for her friend who is waiting for her baby, Aisha dicovers that there is something more than her body and face hiding behind her veil.

The film follows a master of ceremonies who introduces singers and dance numbers on stage in local weddings, and who aspires of gaining wealth to escape his poor town and marry the girl he loves, but on his way he faces a lot of difficulties.

A playful, reckless young girl makes a random nuisance call to a stranger telling him that she knew about him murdering his wife. Coincidentally, she was speaking to a man who did murder his wife. When he tries to buy her silence, she starts blackmailing him, so he plans to kill her too. This is when a journalist, Faten, is called in to the rescue of her cousin, the nuisance caller.

When a corrupt employee is fired in the wake of the Egyptian revolution of 1952, he tries to restore the wealth and position he lost by marrying his daughter, Lola, to a rich guy, but Lola is in love with a doctor. Can she resist her father's wishes?

While performing Shawish "Abu Dguen" his work in organizing the password if chauffeured car shocking a dog to one of the ladies Weaver driver, Sergeant leaves his place and riding a bike after its owner oblivious to catch chauffeured car. Unable to arrest him, he met with village girl with them and help the driver to escape. However, it can find it, confused traffic is transferred to Hammamet point, the girls participate in the shower separated from the service, choose a career an interpreter fails, finally fails in an attempt to commit suicide after the despair of life, meet with the driver after he became rich it presents it to work educator for children .

A cup of coffee entangles the workers of Cairo Tea Factory in a series of high-stakes investigations, led by Ezz Hassan Jr.—the factory's heir and the youngest CEO in the history of the Second Industrial Zone.

in the documentary "Architect Abdelwahed El-Wakil," the architect discusses the relationship between architecture and identity, emphasizing the importance of preserving cultural heritage and embracing unique building styles. El-Wakil shares his personal experiences growing up in Egypt during political change and his quest to create authentic Egyptian architecture. He also introduces Islamic architecture philosophy to students, facing opposition, and advocates for reintroducing aesthetics into modern architecture. El-Wakil's discovery of Nubian architecture and his shift towards environmentally-friendly building methods are also highlighted, along with his fascination with the significance of the courtyard and symbolism in architecture.

The Text Allows No Interpretation is a personal essay documentary displaying the director’s conversation with his trauma in a stream of consciousness. The moments in photographs and videos are set in temporal disarray, meeting the superimposed phone calls speaking to and around the trauma from the past. The ever-present noise of repetition is created through jumps between memories of fear and death during the decade-old Arab Spring to insomnia and anxiety emerging through the footage of NATO military exercises on the borders of Russia.

The great Egyptian documentarian El Abnoudy skillfully and subtly undermines the tendency towards nostalgia regarding the subject of manual labor in her work by showing that this job is now almost exclusively carried out by women and older men, while the young men strive for better professions or abroad.

Tarek loves his cousin Zubaida and travels to Spain to work in bullfighting under a pseudonym. Zubaida comes to Spain in search of her lover, but despite his pleas for her to return to Morocco, she continues to follow him.

A Vision on Landmines Still Present in Egypt – Through a Satirical Attack on the Government and Its Perception of Human Life

Mahmoud, who suffers from a lot of financial difficulties, is now thinking of committing suicide

January 2011 – downtown Cairo – a close-knit group of activist friends struggle to stay alive and stick together as waves of protests escalate around them in their neighborhood near Tahrir Square during the first chaotic days of the Egyptian revolution. Armed with cameras and focused determination, directors Omar Shargawi and Karim El Hakim take to the streets to capture historic events out of view of the world’s media. What emerges is an astonishing cry for unity. As the violence and uncertainty build, Karim and his young family’s apartment becomes ground zero. Friends and neighbors flock together, fighting to survive the counterpunches thrown by police and the armed gangs of thugs swarming the streets below their balcony.

Marwan a superstitious OCD patient knows that his grades will be out in an hour and tries to fight his obsessive thoughts.

On a ship traveling to Egypt, Burhan kills Amina Hanem to steal her jewelry that the jeweler Cohen had offered her. However, the girl Nahid, who looks like Amina, sees him and orders him to return what he stole to Cohen. She wears Amina's clothes to impersonate her, in exchange for not exposing his crime. In Egypt, Nahid meets Amina's husband, pretending to be his wife. Amina's husband discovers the truth and fights with Burhan. In the fight, Enayat, Amina's husband's lover, is injured. He kills Burhan to make it look like Burhan killed Enayat and then committed suicide. Amina's husband lives with Nahed pretending to be his wife.

The film's events revolve around Magda, a beautiful girl who is forced to marry a rich man, but she does not love him, so she decides to run away from him on the wedding night, and he decides to take revenge on her and her family.

A happy family and a loving father who lavishes his daughter with love. Suddenly, the world changes. The man loses his money after speculating in the stock market. The father dies, but the misfortune that befell her father caused him to lose his fortune after one of the husband's friends set up a plot between him and His wife led to separation and the husband abandoned his wife.

After Fathi finishes his scholarship, he buys the required machinery for his factory, while he has an affair with the wife of the factory manager ,Alyia.

In 2016, four mummies of the National Archaeological Museum of Madrid left their showcases headed to a well-known hospital in the capital of Spain. The objective: to study them with the most advanced radiological technology in the world. However, no one could imagine that, under the bandages of the so-called Golden Mummy, there would be a secret with more than two thousand years old. A hieroglyphic enigma that hid the identity of one of the best preserved Egyptian mummies in the world.

Mofida's lives her life yielding to her mother's decisions. When her mother urges her to marry Mahmoud, the latter leaves for Paris for education. In Mahmoud's absence, Mofida meets archaeologist Ali, but as luck would have it, Mahmoud returns and sets a date for their marriage.

In a fading seaside city, a forgotten notebook becomes the unlikely thread connecting two lives. One, burdened by the weight of their memories, fills its pages with raw emotions about lost time and fractured dreams before discarding it. The other, driven by curiosity, discovers the notebook and sets out on a journey to trace the stories it holds. Through its pages, a haunting reminder echoes: “If the whole world forget, never forget. If the whole world forgive, never forgive. Gone, but never forgotten.” As their paths unknowingly cross in shared spaces, both must confront whether to remain anchored in their histories or let go and move forward. A poetic exploration of memory, loss, and renewal, “If We Ever Forgot” asks: can we ever truly leave the past behind?

Beefore Dr. Laila leaves her clinic she receives her mother-in -law as usual on the week ends . Farah who has been newly married for several days , comes with her husband and his mother . Laila and Farah share oppression but in different forms

In Beirut, a naive college student falls for an Egyptian girl who is studying in Lebanon. As he asks his friends for advice, his friends prank him and take photos of him with the girl, which they then send to her father. The girl's father grows angry and goes to Beirut to bring his daughter back.

Ra'ouf is an elderly writer who is known for his stance against women, giving him the title "Woman's Enemy". But everything changes when he falls for Faten and starts to write to her. As he proposes to her, he sends her a photo of his handsome friend Salah, pretending that he is the man in the photo.

Desperate for intimacy, Ali follows his girlfriend's suggestion that puts their relationship to the test. The plan unfolds unexpectedly when gender roles become blurred.

Taking place in the world of acting workshops, the story follows a young man who is looking for an opportunity to break into the world of acting with his fiancée, so the couple decide to set up their own theater and present many shows to reach fame.

An aristocratic girl volunteers with the Red Crescent, where she meets a young doctor. They fall in love and agree to marry, but cruelty of fate forces the girl to marry a rich sheikh. Life becomes difficult for her, so she agrees to commit suicide. But her mother pushes her back when she reveals to her the dangerous secret that the young doctor is not... Except for her brother.

Naima, a mute girl, loses her mother when she is young. Her father marries an unjust woman who hates her and curses her for any reason. Atris, the village elder, also hates her, while his son stalks her and flirts with her whenever he sees her. Hussein, the doctor whose father had a severe disagreement with Atris, arrives in the village. He meets Naima, takes pity on her, and takes her to work for him as a nurse. Then the villagers are surprised that she is pregnant. The doctor accuses her, and her family chases her, so Hussein tries to save her.

Sheikh Imam Mohammad Ahmad Eissa, born 1918, is famous throughout the Arab world for his folk songs indicting the ruling classes. Considered the voice of the oppressed, he is banned from state television and radio, and has been imprisoned numerous times, including in 1974 for the occasion of President Nixon’s visit. With scenes of Egyptian street life set to his often caustic musical criticisms of his native Egypt’s upper classes, the Sheikh’s message is that “If a beautiful thing is suppressed today, it will rise tomorrow.”

Two women waiting for a man… their man.

The film builds itself as a noir narrative heavy with doubt, shadows, and suspicion making everything feel larger than it is. Parody slips in quietly. Beneath the metaphors and hard-boiled dialogue lies an absurd truth: it’s all about a missing office remote. Every line, every “pressure” and “control,” is just wordplay masking something trivial. At its core, the film is a satirical portrait of paranoia, control, and inflated self-importance—where nothing means much, yet everything feels fatal.

Akl Pasha intends to get married after the death of his wife. His young son tries to dissuade him from this idea, but he fails. So the father contracts the marriage with a beautiful young girl. The girl tries to persuade him to appoint her father to the position of an engineer, while her father does not know how to read and write. He tries to evade the request. Strangely enough, but the girl insists, so he has no choice but to present the request to the Board of Directors. Who mocks him and ridicules the request, which drives (Aqal) Pasha into depression and retirement in the estate.

Notifications is Egyptian Short Film

A horny teenager tries to get some time with his Japanese porn magazine, while his family keeps getting in his way.

Keizer is a street artist educating the masses about the latest corruption. He fears self-censorship is yet to be undone as "people have created their own prisons." Elsewhere in Cairo, street art is burgeoning in a joyful expression of freedom. "It's the first time that I walk past things like these that express happiness and contentment", an old man explains, smiling. Karima Mansour is a choreographer whose dance expresses the complexities of a society in which there are veiled women, "but we also have women like me. I am a dancer working with the body." She now wants access to state-run theatres, something forbidden to independent artists under the old regime.

Marwan Pablo, 23, is a trap artist and one of the most important voices of the new generation in Egypt’s hip-hop scene. His first rap concert in Alexandria began on a bright morning, with a decent crowd in attendance. But just before he took the stage, it suddenly started to rain. The stage equipment wasn’t prepared for the weather, forcing the show to stop. Frustrated, Marwan stepped away, thinking of a way to continue the concert. The film follows Marwan between Alexandria and Cairo, capturing the birth of the new wave of hip-hop in Egypt.

Hassan is a courageous journalist who writes about the British colonization. Escaping arrest, he meets a gypsy singer in a remote village and love ignites when she helps him. A romance drama that educates the viewer on patriotism and resistance as well.