Discoveries from Egypt World Cinema

A woman living in downtown Cairo tries to support her family by selling potato chips. Known as "Potatoes lady" she starts cooking from early morning until late at night in the city that never sleeps.

This beautifully photographed, revealing film about Egypt's women captures their separate and subordinate life under the Islamic code. Men and women speak about their traditions, expectations, and patterns of life. We meet articulate women who have had little schooling and whose lives are centered on childbearing and hard physical work. They acknowledge that their choices in life are limited. The Koran dictates behavior at every stage of life. Their husbands are selected by their fathers. Often, at puberty they are taken out of school. They unquestioningly accept circumcision, arranged marriages, huge families and polygamous husbands. Women after marriage are secluded and some may never set eyes on another man. By participating in this film, the women question for the first time some of the assumptions of their lives.

This stage play adaptation is about a female teacher and how she transformed 5 rebellious students into model students.

The first Egyptian short film to discuss the issue of harassment in Egypt

On just another regular day in Cairo, Egypt, 18-year-old Nour gets a call from her brother that he will no longer be able to pick her up. To avoid being late to work, Nour has to take a microbus, not knowing that this trip will forever change her.

After the death of his father, Mahmoud Abu Bakr sets out on a journey to penetrate into diabetes, in which he discovers the most important symptoms and risks facing the patient, in addition to their psychological state.

Set in a jam-manufacturing company in Alexandria, the film presents the lives of a number of employees at a time when they face financial difficulties. As they attempt to find an outlet for their financial problems, they get trapped together. The events unfold in the vein of black comedy.

As the grandfather’s presence in the country becomes increasingly problematic, the mother decides never to touch a camera again. At the same time, the father becomes obsessively convinced of his disappearance. Lost among the absence of images, the film encounters a rare event in 1976, in Montreux: Nina Simone returns to the spotlight.

Two people develop a special connection at a farewell party in post-revolution Cairo.

Documentary by Ateyyat El-Abnoudy

Documentary by Ateyyat El Abnoudy

(Barai), the drug dealer, marries (Bahija), who knows nothing about his suspicious activities. As a result, she falls in love with Jalal, her sister's (Nazik's) husband. She resorts to music to forget him and stay away from him, while (Jalal) watches (Barai) and his gang and tries to arrest them.

In many ways the sister film to 'Horse of Mud', Al-Abnoudy’s graduation film at the Film School in Cairo is a portrait of Cairo’s street performers. The artistry of this community of fire-eaters, acrobats, child contortionists, and musicians is captured through the lens of Al-Abnoudy’s unobtrusive camera, accompanied by the spare and haunting narration provided by poet Abdel Rahman Al-Abnoudy. Playing with the poetry that offers image and cinema, she pays tribute to those underground enterteiners, giving back its letters of nobility to a marginalized and downgraded popular art.

Discovering the high costs of their wedding, Yusuf and Dalia thought about taking advantage of the cost of the wedding and going for their honeymoon.In fact, they chose the Malaysian capital of Kuala Lumpur.When they traveled there, suddenly, Dalia was kidnapped mysteriously.

The lonely millionaire decides to invite an orphaned child from the shelter to spend some time with him. The manager chooses a child who is a rioter, despite the knowledge that he prefers the children. The child moves to his palace and the quarrels start between him and him, but he begins to love her as if he were his daughter.

The story revolves around Raik (Samir Ghanem) and Cihan Nasr (who have a strong love relationship). But the mother of (Warda) is a powerful woman who likes to interfere in everything, and her husband (Noman) can not control her. , Tries to thwart the relationship between (Raik) and (Rose) through some lies, but they overcome them, and succeed in maintaining their relationship.

Egyptian rare comedy play Min laughed at Min Hoda Sultan Sultan Zahra Alaa Najah Al-Moji Gamal Shabal Sahar Rami Mohsen Mohieddin Magdy Imam Samira Sidqi Mohammed Alsaba

(Hamed Bey) is disabled and can not move except through his wheelchair with his three daughters in a very bad condition after their uncle took their father's money and now they are offering their villas for sale after they have been surrounded by debt. They forget that they have asked an office to send someone to work. But they are misunderstood and believe that he is the person who came to buy the villa and talked a lot of ridiculous positions that are located in (Hiran), but they relax and consider him one of them.

The story revolves around (Charnopi) the man who is a poor brother who dies and leave him after five children of orphans to care for them and care and raise them, and despite the excellence of the extreme but the children of his late brother push him to spend and do this act which is contrary to nature.

In the north of Egypt, communities living near the salty lakes of El Borrolos during a treacherous drought.

Procession of the sacred carpet.

Shot on mobile phones over the course of a single day in the streets of Cairo. Blind Ambition is about the emotional condition that seethes beneath the surface of a collective.

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Marwan Moussa premieres his new track “Wathaeqy” (وثائقي) in a special cinematic experience presented on the big screen for the first time. The screening consists of three parts: 1. “Al Wathaeqy” documentary 2. The premiere of the “Wathaeqy” music video 3. Behind-the-scenes footage from the making of the video clip

Short documentary about the Egyptian painter mohamed hasan elkabany

Emad, a 10-year-old boy, loves ice cream despite his father's strict ban. Forced to eat it in secret to avoid punishment, he imagines his father has eyes everywhere watching him. One day, noticing his father is unwell, Emad chooses to ignore the tension and finally eats his ice cream in front of him with a sense of liberated joy.

Sent to capture Medhat, Yassin Eltohamy realizes the mission is linked to a past operation that was never truly finished

A gritty, atmospheric psychological drama following a tense showdown in a dusty wood workshop between Yasser, a bruised, soulful craftsman, and Dr. Nader, a pretentious contemporary artist. Stripped of his artistic ownership by a financial buyout, the craftsman subtly alters his masterpiece before it’s carted away. As the true creator vanishes into the fog, the artist is left stranded with a compromised sculpture, forcing a final, desperate twist of truth into illusion

Omar wakes up to find that his family is not in the apartment, so he goes to look for them and finds that there is no one in the street or anywhere , will he find anyone after looking more in the streets or will it be just a failed attempt ?

Hossam, a misguided teenager lost in a life of parties and bad influence, suddenly while he was walking he starts hearing some voices telling him to get out , how will he react ?

After another death khaled has to dive deep into his sunken memories trying to resolve the farewells he never resolved

A short film from the point of view of a set of keys.

In a quiet village, the escape of a donkey owned by two wealthy farmers sparks chaos. The search for the animal exposes buried grudges, social inequalities, and the absurdity of local economics.

A sequel to Sleepless Nights (2003) with new characters.

"The Night Of Cairo" is a short documentary that reveals the beauty of nighttime in Cairo the way Cairenes see it through their own eyes, instead of the stereotypical way that the media often portrays it. So it is Cairo, from my eyes, to yours.

A documentary about the Egyptian Mummy Research Program from the National Archaeological Museum. CT scans transform each exhibit into a narrator that brings to light rituals, fears, hopes, and stories that transcend time.

A dedicated nanny is loyal to her employers that she sacrifices herself to keep the family together. She gets accused of having an affair with the family's son, after he is caught with his sister-in-law, only for the nanny to take the fall.

A quiet afternoon unfolds around a mother caught between routine and waiting. As time passes, the film gently explores absence, expectation, and the small comforts found in solitude.

Behind her husband’s back, a housewife goes live on TikTok to sell hyper-feminine bridal products. When he enters mid-stream, the bubbly performance begins to crack, and what feels like harmless online commerce slowly reveals a chilling reality of control and offscreen violence.

It's about a wanderer guy at the sea see who seeks for answers to his dreams

Following a normal day in a life of a mother and her son it seems like it's not what we think it is

Some people can't accept the truth of things that happen to them, Instead, they live in the delusion of their minds.

a coincidence that made 2 old friends meet but in different situations

it's about a guy who is 17 years old trying to make a movie by himself and show us what will happen to him ups and downs till he reach his dreamز

A psychological thriller following Samaan, a young security guard who, like many of his generation, is struggling with trauma. His parents were murdered in the religious and ethnic violence that has been unfolding in the Arab region for decades.

Mona Ibrahim, who lives in Alexandria, talks about her relationship with Alexandria and with her mother during Alzheimer's disease, and their relationship with Alexandria, the "mother".

Crushed by expectations and haunted by failure, a young woman turns to drugs in search of escape. What starts as a coping mechanism quickly consumes her, leading to reckless choices and growing isolation. As her addiction takes hold, she harms those around her and loses sight of herself. Caught in a destructive cycle, she's forced to reckon with the damage done, and whether she has the strength to break free before it's too late.

A teacher in his mid-seventies discovers a link between music and physics after 40 years of trying and uses his "Time-Piano" to mend the relationship with the love of his life.

In the near future, a set of absurd laws have been put in place. The penalty for those who violate the laws, is to be recycled and replaced by another person known as The Surrogate.

Zein’s longing for the joy of his younger days leads him down a path where the past feels more real than the present.

During the quarantine lockdown, a 16-year-old’s ordinary days fracture into a defining journey of resilience, rebellion, and growth that redefines who he is.

An Experimental short film. A complete fictional story with some realistic elements to it.The second part of the diaries five part shorts. This part discusses the narrator's relationship with his home town while recalling some of his coloured themed memories of a picture of a black cat.

A young man meets an artsy girl who decides he should be her muse, pulling him into a strange and playful relationship that slowly slips out of his control.

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