Saif Abdel Rahman

A retired Egyptian officer working at the Egyptian embassy in Tel Aviv decides to plot revenge against Israel for freezing his bank accounts when he objected to its monstrous conduct in Palestine. In Egypt, he recruits five of his former students to rob Israel’s largest bank.

Hatem is a corrupt police officer, who loves his neighbor Nour, who in turn loves the prosecutor, Sherif and Hatem tries to win Nour’s attention even if by force.

Playboy Amr (Ahmed Eid) studies at the Faculty of Medicine, he lives a careless life between the use of drugs and neglect of study, and then falls in love with fellow religious veiled Farah (Bushra), and tries to woo her by pretending to be religious and then she discovers the truth.

When Surgeon Hamza commits a mistake that leads to the death of a child, he's sentenced to jail and prevented from practicing his profession. The widow Rawia enters his isolated life after meeting her in an auction and then he meets three young teenagers who find refuge in him.

During the Gulf War, Fatma works as a maid for a wealthy man, and her son Mohammed is suffering from oppression by his teacher Mansour, who's having an affair with Fatima, taking advantage of her difficult circumstances. Mohammad gets drawn to extremist religious world led by Sheikh Khalid.

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.

This film is an exploration of what happens to places in general, and people in particular, once the menfolk abandon an Egyptian village to investigate the greener-grass on the proverbial 'other side'. The womenfolk, those too old and those too young are left behind... and as the years pass, only letters return, telling tales of loneliness and hard-times. A young man, Ahmed, grows-up under these surroundings and has to deal with being the de-facto man-in-charge; when several of the migrant workers return one day, everyone has to come to terms with things being forever changed.

Directed by Asmaa El-Bakry.

이 영화는 아랍이 안달루시아를 지배했던 12세기를 배경으로 스페인의 코르도바에 살았던 모슬림 철학자인 아베로에스의 실화를 다룬다. 아베로에스는 아리스토텔레스의 추종자로서 당대 아리스토텔레스 철학에 대한 권위 있는 주석들을 내놓았는데, 이슬람 근본주의자들은 인간적이며 합리적인 철학을 전파하려는 그의 활동을 자신들의 종교적 교리에 반하는 행위로 간주한다. 근본주의자들의 억압으로 인해 결국 그의 모든 책들이 소각 당하게 되지만, 그의 학생들에 의해 복사된 아리스토텔레스 철학에 대한 주석들은 이집트로 몰래 보내져 현대 서양철학의 초석을 다지는데 중요한 역할을 하게 된다.

While the great businessman Noman El-Prince is at sea on a yacht outing, he hits a fisherman's boat and kills both the fisherman and his son. Prosecutor Hamdi handles the investigation, and some fishermen testify against Noman, who is imprisoned pending the case. But his lawyer succeeds in proving his innocence by fabricating defense witnesses. He incites one of his aides to kill Hamdi.

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.

Nubi spent a period of his life in a mental hospital after his father deposited him unjustly. He is not crazy, but his father donated all he had to the Communist Party, which was adhering to its principles. The government then placed the family property under guard. Nubian lives with his mother Rose and discover amazing facts, including that his father, who bears his name is not his real father, but his mother gave birth to her brown friend, and then discovered that his brother missed the family and no one knows his place but joined the extremist group.

(Ghraib) recounts the entire march of his life, which intersects with the fortunes of the city of Suez over two centuries through the tripartite aggression and the defeat of 1967, where he remembers the circumstances in which his parents met and the death of his father when he was a member of the popular resistance at the time of the triple aggression To study and work at the printing press with Al-Asi (Salah), the owner of the house where Gharib lives with his mother, and a stranger to Mahmoud, whose father is in the Popular Resistance.

Set in 1987 against the backdrop of a hunger strike by the Egyptian film industry, Chahine himself steps in to play Yehia, the famed Egyptian director whose life is chronicled in "Alexandria, Why?" and "An Egyptian Story". Obsessed with Amr, the handsome actor he discovered and cast as his alter-ego in parts one and two of The Alexandria Trilogy, Yehia pressures Amr to star in various film projects that change even as Yehia's perception of the young actor begins to change. He first casts Amr as Hamlet, which the actor deems too demanding for his talents, then as the lead in a musical biopic of demigod Alexander the Great, who founded the city of Alexandria in 332 B.C.

Set in 1987 against the backdrop of a hunger strike by the Egyptian film industry, Chahine himself steps in to play Yehia, the famed Egyptian director whose life is chronicled in "Alexandria, Why?" and "An Egyptian Story". Obsessed with Amr, the handsome actor he discovered and cast as his alter-ego in parts one and two of The Alexandria Trilogy, Yehia pressures Amr to star in various film projects that change even as Yehia's perception of the young actor begins to change. He first casts Amr as Hamlet, which the actor deems too demanding for his talents, then as the lead in a musical biopic of demigod Alexander the Great, who founded the city of Alexandria in 332 B.C.

Set in the summer of 1961 during Nasser's land reforms, ‘’Summer Thefts’’ is the story of a childhood friendship between Yasser, the son of a bourgeois landowner, and Leil, the son of an Egyptian peasant.

Egypt, 1947: in the midst of a cholera outbreak. A washerwoman tries to take care of her family, while at the same time resisting the advances of a charming suitor who's half her age.

This big-budget historical epic from acclaimed Egyptian director Youssef Chahine features a crazed turn by Patrice Chereau as Napoleon Bonaparte. The film, an Egyptian-French co-production, deals with Napoleon's occupation of Alexandria and its effect on a typical Egyptian family. Michel Piccoli leads the cast as a general in Napoleon's army who tentatively befriends a local poet.

After we last see him in "Alexandria, Why?" Egyptian filmmaker Yehia Mourad is in his thirties, and successful in his work, he has grown distant from his wife and children and suffers a symbolic blockage of the heart while shooting the final scenes of his latest film. After being flown to England for evaluation, it's determined that Yehia must undergo emergency surgery. Fact and fiction blend seamlessly—with healthy doses of cleverly absurdist fantasy—as the film explores the various personalities and forces that have made Yehia (and Youssef Chahine) the man he has become.

After we last see him in "Alexandria, Why?" Egyptian filmmaker Yehia Mourad is in his thirties, and successful in his work, he has grown distant from his wife and children and suffers a symbolic blockage of the heart while shooting the final scenes of his latest film. After being flown to England for evaluation, it's determined that Yehia must undergo emergency surgery. Fact and fiction blend seamlessly—with healthy doses of cleverly absurdist fantasy—as the film explores the various personalities and forces that have made Yehia (and Youssef Chahine) the man he has become.

할리우드 영화의 화려함에 매혹되어 있는 십대 소년 예히아는 주변을 가득 메우고 있는 공포 분위기에서 벗어나 상상의 세계로 도피한다. 하지만 그는 유럽을 점령한 나치의 잔학상에 대해 하나 둘씩 알아가면서 실제 삶의 참혹한 현실을 외면하기 어려워진다. 특히 지방출신의 소녀와 사랑에 빠진 후에는...

알리는 10년이 넘도록 정치범으로 수감돼 있으며, 가족들은 그의 귀환을 손꼽아 기다리고 있다. 그들은 이 정의로운 남자가 언젠가는 그의 포악한 형에 맞설 것이라고 믿는다. 성대한 파티가 열리던 날, 홀연히 나타난 알리를 아무도 알아보지 못한다. 오랜 감옥 생활은 알리의 젊음과 이상을 철저하게 망가뜨려 다른 사람으로 만들어 버린 것이다.

An Egyptian man falls in love with a Polish woman and gets a scholarship to be with her. Meanwhile, an American student decides to seduce him for revenge.

The construction of the Aswan dam as seen by those who took part in it: engineers, workers, Egyptians, and Soviets.

Set shortly before and during the Six Day War in June of 1967, The Sparrow follows a young police officer stationed in a small village in Upper Egypt whose inhabitants suffer from the harassment of a corrupt businessman.

한 경찰관이 우연히 정체 불명의 시체를 발견하면서 시작된다. 사건을 조사하던 두 형사는 단순한 살인사건이 아니라, 이와 연관된 또 다른 사건이 있음을 알게 되는데…

Renegotiating the representational paradigm of nationhood the film draws a heterogeneous picture of Egyptian society as well as Soviet workers as they embarked on the momentous dam enterprise. The films presents a vision of a nation deep rooted in unity as well as diversity. The films projection of a renewed imagining of the nation inadvertently acknowledges a new and nuanced understanding of its goals, political objectives, and how these impact the personal within it. (KHOURI)

Abbas, a resident of Cairo, is appointed by the government to hold the office of supervisor in a post office in a small village in Upper Egypt.

The story of a 40-year-old married woman who has fallen into idleness and does not know how to approach the revolutionary events in her country. She finds a new meaning in life when she falls in love with an aspiring young student. “I shot FAGR YOM GUEDID in 1964. I count it among my best films and still stand by it completely. It is about the class whose assets were nationalized after the 1952 revolution. I explored the question of whether this class still had a place in Egyptian society.”