On a visit to a suburb of Cairo, Zahraa's daughter has a tragic accident, and the mother tries to help the daughter overcome the adversity and continue her education.
Shahira
Apaixonada por cinema, a cenógrafa Maha se especializou em criar mundos imaginários. Sob imensa pressão no trabalho, ela começa a transitar por dois universos: um deles se parece com o cenário que inventou; o outro, com sua suposta vida real. Conforme a fronteira entre imaginação e realidade fica cada vez menos clara, Maha precisa decidir —pela primeira vez— o que realmente deseja.
In one of the most extraordinary nights in the history of Egypt, the prisons were suddenly opened, leaving thousands of prisoners wandering the desert. Among them was one man trying to find his way in a city that is rapidly changing for good.
Based on the Ayyat train accident that killed 361 in 2002, this ensemble drama delves into the intense human stories of the passengers in a third-class coach car during the hour and a half before the crash.
Amina
Fayza, Seba e Nelly. Três mulheres egípcias com vidas completamente diferentes se unem para combater o machismo que impera no Egito contemporâneo e que está em todos os lugares: nas ruas da cidade do Cairo, no trabalho e dentro de suas próprias casas. Determinadas, elas se unem e iniciam uma série de ataques contra os homens que ousam molestá-las. Quem são essas misteriosas mulheres que tem a coragem de enfrentar uma sociedade baseada na superioridade masculina?
The story of a group of young intellectuals living in Egypt as friends, having a lot of ambition and joy, but with the beginning of the Iraq war , it casts a harsh shadow on the group, preventing one of them to travel abroad to continue studying.
ايناس
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.
Mansour El-Hefny’s wealthy family rule an Upper Egyptian island. Some police officers facilite their arms dealing in exchange for information, and corrupt parliament members use their immunity to par-take in their drug trade.
It's somehow a radical egyptian movie
Yara
Mahmoud is a professor of acting, who lives an isolated life, a shift in his personality occurs when he discovers the betrayal of his wife with a young man, and meets a young actress who tries to make him live a different life.