Antar
After studying literature at Cairo University, Dunia, 23 years old, wants to become a professional dancer. She attends audition for an oriental dance contest where she recites Arabian poetry without any body movement. She explain to the perplexed jury that a woman can't move her body or evoke act of love when society ask women to hide their femininity. She is selected and meet Beshir, an intellectual and activist who will supervise her thesis on ecstasy in Sufi love poetry. Their attraction is mutual. This could be liberation for Dunia but the constraints on women in Egyptian society goes deeper than she suspects.
Hammaam lives with his big family in a crowded Egyptian alley. As he is jobless, he loses his girl to a rich suitor. He then decides to leave for Amsterdam where his uncle has immigrated long ago. As soon as he arrives he loses his money and passport and gets assaulted in an inn. Adriano the young Egyptian emigrant saves his neck and helps him find his uncle who dumps him. Hence, Hammaam stays with a group of young Arabs. After his tiring journey between failure and success he falls in love with a young lady who helps him fulfill his dream of buying a certain famous restaurant. As his business flourishes, he returns home to visit his family proud of his success.
성서의 요셉 이야기를 이집트적인 관점에서 각색해 하나의 기발한 캐릭터 드라마로 완성했다. 이 영화에서 요셉은 램으로 불린다. 미신에 빠져있는 가족들과 형제들의 학대에 못이긴 램은 이집트로 가서 농업을 공부하려고 한다. 곧 그는 형제들과 사나이 반도를 가로질러 여행을 떠나는데, 그의 악독한 형제들은 갑자기 그를 테베의 지도자 아미하르의 부하인 이집트인 오지르에게 팔아넘긴다. 아미하르는 램의 인간미에 매료되어 그에게 시 외곽에 있는 미경작지를 하사한다. 하지만 램은 자신이 아미하르와 아문 신의 사제인 그의 아내 시미히트 사이에서 벌어지는 다툼에 볼모가 되어있음을 깨닫게 된다.
