Salah Marei

In the fading grandeur of downtown Cairo, Khalid, a 35-year-old filmmaker is struggling to make a film that captures the pulse of his city at a moment when all around him dreams as much as buildings are disintegrating. With the help of his friends who send him footage from their lives in Beirut, Baghdad and Berlin, he finds the strength to keep going through the difficulty and beauty of living IN THE LAST DAYS OF THE CITY.

Mahmoud Shuaib is a very wealthy man with two sons. He has Alzheimer's disease, which is starting to affect the way he spends his wealth. His two sons are worried that they may end up with nothing to inherit if their father keep this up, and attempt to take control of his estate through the court.

Youssef, a student at the Faculty of Fine Arts, responds to the call of talent and love of drawing against his family's wishes.

The film revolves around a young man, who lives with his uncle after the death of his father. He is a reckless young man who relies on the money of his billionaire uncle, until his uncle decides to leave him to rely on himself, causing him problems in many comedy situations

Ali, an aspiring actor, works in a government-aided butchery, and takes a part in a cheap play, while his father wants him to start working in fruit trade. Ali pursues his long-lived dream of traveling abroad and flies to France with an acting troupe, where he starts living illegally alongside many other Arabs, and starts a life-changing experience that he won't remember fully until he returns to Egypt.

A raucous and amazingly irreverent look at contemporary Cairo, THE ASPHALT KING centers on Sayed, a swaggering cabdriver and (to his mind) born womanizer. Embroiled in a torrid affair with a buxom neighbor, Sayed pays his best friend Ringo to keep the neighbor's barber husband busy -- but the husband, as well as Ringo, Sayed's mother, father, sister and grandfather, have their own amorous intrigues brewing. Director Oussama Fawzi has been hailed as the brightest young director to have recently emerged in Egyptian cinema.

Based on one of the major literary texts survived from the Middle Kingdom, the classical period of Egyptian literature, The Eloquent Peasant is a combination of a morality/folk tale and a poem. The events are set between 2160 and 2025 BC. When the peasant Khun-anup and his donkey stumble upon the lands of the noble Rensi, the peasant’s goods are confiscated and he’s unjustly accused of theft. The peasant petitions Rensi who is so taken by the peasant’s eloquence that he report his astonishing discovery to the king. The king realises the peasant has been wronged but delays judgement so as to he can hear more of his eloquence. The peasant makes a total of nine petitions until finally, his goods are returned.

La momia está basada en hechos reales. En 1881 aparecen en el mercado una serie de objetos procedentes de la dinastía Tanita. Se descubre que la tribu de los Horabat había saqueado en secreto las tumbas de los faraones de Tebas (hoy Luxor). La Escuela de Arqueología de El Cairo encontró las tumbas en un lugar recóndito del Valle de los Reyes. A través de esta película, el realizador Shadi Abd al-Salam plantea importantes cuestiones acerca de la relación entre pasado y presente, las creencias y la profanación, la muerte.