Maha's mother
Maha has always been passionate about cinema, and as a set designer she's become an expert at creating imaginary worlds. Under immense pressure at work, she sights another life on the horizon and begins slipping between realities-one resembling the film set she's designed and the other her supposed real life. As she grows ever more entangled in each, the border between reality and imagination becomes blurred, and she must choose for the first time what she truly desires.
TV쇼 호스트 '헤바'. 그녀의 쇼는 정치적 이슈를 주로 다룬다. 그녀의 남편 '카림'은 정부산하로 운영되는 신문사의 편집부 임원이다. 그의 야망은 편집장으로 승진하는 것. 그는 회사에서의 입지를 점점 굳혀가고 있지만, 늘 정부정책의 반대에 선 그의 아내의 쇼가 발목을 잡는다. 그는 자신의 아내에게 당분간만이라도 정치적 이슈가 아닌 소소한 가십거리로 방송을 꾸며가는건 어떻겠냐며 제안한다. 그녀는 남편을 위해 이집트에 살고 있는 여성들의 소소한 이야기로 토크쇼를 진행해가기로 한다. 그런데 시작되는 그녀들의 이야기는 곧 사회적 정치적억압속에 살고 있는 이집트 여성들의 이야기로 엮어져 가는데...
Youssef is a hotshot anesthesiologist who often sleeps in his car for privacy. Laila is the careerist host of a late night radio call-in show. These two members of Cairo's elite, lost souls traveling parallel paths of longing and disconnection, are the principal fish in Yousry Nasrallah's The Aquarium, a meditation on the intellectual capital of the Middle East, now bent under the sway of repression in all its forms.
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.
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.
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.
