Discoveries from Egypt World Cinema

Fouad is a disabled man who turns to literature to cope with his isolation. He falls for a beautiful girl named Widad, but she only feels sorry for him. Instead, she falls for his brother Gamil, a handsome young man who's also reckless.

Circles is a psychological journey about repetition, identity, and the quiet moment when a hero begins to question himself. Trapped in patterns of choices and consequences, the protagonist slowly realizes that time doesn’t always change who we are it reveals who we’ve been becoming all along. As the line between right and wrong blurs, the film explores how intentions decay, how denial grows, and how one can unknowingly cross from resistance into responsibility. Circles asks a simple but unsettling question: at what point do we stop fighting the cycle and become part of it?

Fitna receives a limited education and lives with her father in a popular neighborhood in Alexandria. Her friend Naima, a girl who lives a frivolous life, tempts her to go out with her. As she works as a singer in a bar, Fitna gets arrested, and the warden sympathizes with Fitna, finds her an honest job, and falls in love with her.

The heart of Governor Qaraqosh (Zaki Rustom) is tied to the heart of the girl (Nour Al-Huda), a girl from the common people, so he decided to appoint her father (Siraj Munir) as prime minister so that he could marry her. (Siraj Munir) takes advantage of his ministerial position and the people’s love for him to redress grievances. And tyranny against people, and at the same time (Nour Al-Huda) relates to the love of one of the young men who decides to revolution.

Opening Aswan Film Festival

A mother and her daughter explore together the trajectory of four generations of women from their family, an Egyptian family from the Levant where life and cinema have been intimately linked and still are. A cross look between family archives where the real and the fiction and the autobiographical films of Youssef Chahine mingle. From Alexandria to Cairo, passing through Paris and Havana, an intimate and visceral narrative where mother and daughter cross space and time to trace destinies and question their emotions

Mady, an older woman lost in the haze of dementia and convinced her daughters have abandoned her, resists the quiet devotion of a middle-aged caregiver carrying an unspoken grief.

A conflicted young man and his overexcited girlfriend wander around the city of Cairo looking for a romantic spot to kiss. They unwittingly set off a squad to hunt them down to prevent this act of indecency.

Laila is a young woman suffering from paralysis who lives with her stepfather after her mother died when she was two years old. She loves writing poetry. She sends her poems to the singer Mamdouh, who uses them in his songs, but Laila hides her true identity from him because she loves him and does not want him to see her disability, so that Mamdouh can reach her and be frank with her. With his love, a surprise happens that changes the course of events.

Biography of the artist Soad Hosni

Tired of being the punching bag of Alexandria's worst boxers, A young boxer decides to confront a money collector that works in the corrupted betting business in the underground boxing championships.

The story is from the heart of life, and revolves around the world of dance and the dancers who wage war against the ruin of full homes, so they steal husbands from their wives with various means of temptation and camouflage.

The Afandina film carries different stories about the influence of money-holders, and Shaaban Abdel-Rahim embodies the character of a mechanic in the film, and Ahmed Azmi embodies the role of a poor young man who is exposed to crises.

Nubia Train, takes its passengers on a train trip originally designated for transporting the Nuba residents living in Cairo to Aswan. This journey is repeated once every Hijri year, specifically on the day before Eid Al-Adha, a journey that has become one of the Nubian traditions of the feast. This journey is the meeting point between music and games that take place over a 16-hour night trip.

An actor is late for his film shoot. Since he woke up oneiric visions have been plaguing his day. African drums set the rhythm to his frenzied race against the clock.

A couple with contradictory personalities, the wife is a serious cardiologist, and the husband is a frivolous person who loves a life of debauchery and debauchery. Their differences escalate and lead to divorce, even though they have a baby girl, whom the father leaves to live without restrictions. The girl grows up, studies music, meets a young man and falls in love with him. She asks for his help in finding her father and reuniting the family.

Mohammed, the son of a simple worker, lives in the city of Alexandria with his father and dreams of moving to Cairo to become a filmmaker. In Cairo, Mohammed meets Salma and Bassam and is impressed by their self-confidence. When he discovers that Salma and Bassam’s parents were left-wing activists from the 1970s, he looks for a similar sense of purpose in his own father’s life. As he compares lives, Mohammed the filmmaker discovers answers. More importantly, he is led to new questions that connect the past with the present.

Islam Chipsy from Egypt and Aïsha Devi from Switzerland are two musicians whose main strength lies in their live performances, informed by a non-repetitive unique style that YouTube or SoundCloud will never be able to reproduce. One Plus One Makes a Pharaoh's Chocolate Cake documents the process of a week of meetings between Aïsha and Chipsy in Cairo, Egypt where they were asked to produce a collaborative music track.

The Sheikh of one of the tribes loves the Bedouin girl Salma, who's engaged to her cousin. The Sheikh kidnaps her and forces her to marry him. As she gives birth to a child, the servant Suleiman helps her escape, only for his malicious intentions to be revealed when he tries to attack her.

The story of two criminal teenagers in Giza, Egypt. They try to escape with a stolen money safe from an abandon house in thier neighborhood. And everything goes wrong.

Nadia has to choose between looking after her suicidal depressed mother, and attending a job interview which could change her life and provide for her family.

When a couple has their own time in a cafe, a waiter could ruin everything.

Doria is a student in a boarding school. She falls in love with an arrogant young man who decides to follow the straight path out of his love for her. However, they discover that her mother works in a nightclub, and their fates separate them.

Salwa, in Cairo to finish some paperwork, decides to visit her younger brother Hassan. After their late parents’ divorce, they were brought up apart, she by her mother. She spends a day with Hassan in the old family home where he still lives. Despite their initial coldness, they finally discover one another.

Most of the Egyptians keep a lot of old stuff in the corners of their balconies, and inside the houses there are many invisible corners cluttered with such unused stuff. This phenomenon is so common in all the Egyptians houses to the extent that it became a part of the nature and features of the Egyptian house. The film offers an exciting experience by letting us have a closer look inside the houses of a number of Egyptian families. The Director's lens traces the places where the Egyptians stack their old stuff or as they call it "karakib", trying to figure out "Why do Egyptians keep their old stuff."

A comedy about famous artist Zico, who's forced to marry (Bossy), as their grandfather stipulated in his will that they have to get married to have an inheritance of five million pounds , and as events develop their relation turns into true love.

Gharib recalls his life’s journey, which intersects with what the city of Suez experienced over two centuries through the Triple aggression and the Defeat of 1967. Gharib meets Mahmoud, who had been with his father in the people's resistance and they work together in resistance activities.

In a post revolution Cairo, after numerous failed trials to escape the status quo of her generation’s depression, Nour, a 29 young woman, secretly arranges fleeing her homeland. Hours before her departure, She embarks on a journey of struggle with a patriarchal society and a fight within to keep her hidden secret.

Amin Pasha is a wealthy villager who lives lavishly, while his son Hamdy fools around in the city. As for Hassanein, he works for them to raise his daughter Fatima. Amin's wife escapes to the city and her husband chases her but the two die in an accident. Fatima tries to persuade Hamdy to return home.

Three people, each facing a problem in their field that makes them feel humiliated, decide to do something illegal to prove their abilities.

After fleeing from Cairo to Berlin to escape police prosecution, photojournalist Alaa meets Lia at a party. A mutual attraction ignites, except Alaa doesn't know who Lia really is.

A man suffering from financial crises tries throughout the film to find a buyer for his kidney after an unexpected accident with his personal physician, but he discovers an unexpected truth about his health condition.

A series of events unfold over the course of one single day in Cairo creating a chain reaction that begins with the oldest and most dominant character and ends with the weakest link of the chain.

After Jaber travels from Upper Egypt to Cairo because of revenge, fate throws him in the path of Mohra, the struggling woman who is raising her two brothers, and a love story arises between them.

The father stands between his only daughter Fayda and the young man who is chasing her. This young man tried to seduce her by making her believe that he loves her. This young man continues to chase the girl while she turns away from him. He pursues her with phone calls, and when he feels that there is no point in trying to entice her, he reveals her mother’s history, behavior, and bad reputation.

An exploration of the trials and tribulations that the Coptic Christian community went through during the swine flu epidemic in Egypt. Salem is a pig farmer in Cairo whose livelihood is threatened when the swine flu virus appears abroad and psychosis takes hold of Cairo, putting him and his community to the test.

When 24-year-old Hend Nafea is arrested and tortured for demonstrating peacefully in Cairo's Tahrir Square, her pursuit of justice reflects post-revolution Egypt at an uncertain crossroads.

Mohsen and Dalia, a married couple, move into a new apartment after living in a series of furnished rentals. They’re happily married and nothing seems to disturb their peace. They then invite the other residents in the building to change their stressful, unhappy lives into happier ones. The wives welcome the idea, but the husbands refused such invitation, they turn it down.