Egypt

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After an 82-day separation, Adam travels a rough road to be reunited with the one he loves, whatever it takes.Read More »

SYNOPSIS
1947 Cairo. Washerwoman Lavandiere dreams of escaping reality through movies. A charming organ grinder offers excitement, but a cholera outbreak threatens her son. Desperate, she fights to save him.Read More »

Plot:A new swimming pool opens in a Cairo district, with the announcement that Sundays will be only for females. This causes ripples throughout the local community, while three women – Shamiya, Azza, and Lula – assess their varying lives.Read More »

Atris grows up to take after his tyrannical and cruel grandfather. As he forces his control on the people of the Dahashna village, his childhood sweetheart, Fo’ada refuses to marry him due to his growing brutality. Despite her rejection, Atris asks her father for her hand in marriage.Read More »

Plot:Abdul Tawab, a well-known trader travels to Alexandria to agree on a drug deal in which he pays his fortune.
Upon his return he’s killed. The eldest son Kamal admits the truth behind the family’s wealth and everyone is faced with a difficult choice either completing the deal and getting the money, or rejecting it and losing the inheritance.Read More »

Leila Mourad one of the Orient’s Divas stars in this classic musical romance as a poor girl who marries a wealthy young man while others try to break them apart.Read More »

Plot: The mayor of a small village invents a fictional character called ‘Rajeh’ which he claims he fights on the outskirts of the village. But some people question the mayor’s stories and call him a bluffer. He admits to his niece, Rima, the truth. He made it all up. Fadlou and Eed carry on a number of crimes and blame Rajeh for it. It’s the time for the annual singles festival where males and females still unmarried get engaged, and it’s when Rajeh appears. People start getting scared forming community watches looking for Rajeh.Read More »

Bint El-Harass (Arabic: بنت الحارس) AKA The Guard Daughter is a Lebanese musical-drama directed by the Egyptian director Henry Barakat (known for Doa al karawan AKA The Nightingale’s Prayer) story, dialog and musical score by the Rahbani brothers Assi & Mansour and starring the greatest voice ever lived Fairuz.
This is the third and maybe the last film starring Fairuz after Biya el-Khawatim AKA The Ring Seller and Safar Barlek and the second collaboration between the director and the Rahbani brothers and Fairuz.Read More »

A documentary filmmaker in Cairo is having difficulty finishing his film, so his friends send him footage from the cities they live in: Baghdad, Beirut, and Berlin.

Berlinale’s description
Downtown Cairo is an organism that still seems alive back in winter 2009/10, but is becoming increasingly alien even to those born there. Khalid is looking for a flat. He’s a filmmaker. He looks at his images over and over again, as if he were waiting from them to produce some sort of meaning. The stories of his protagonists seem to come from somewhere inside him, he seeks points of reference in the outside world. The more he looks for them, the more they seem to disappear; not abruptly though, but in lengthy moments full of tenderness, such as when he bids farewell to his girlfriend who is leaving him, to his ill mother, to friends who have come to the city to premiere their films.Read More »