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- DirectorSally El HosainiStarsJames Krishna FloydElarica JohnsonFady ElsayedTwo teenage brothers must face their own prejudices head on if they are to survive the perils of being Egyptians growing up on the streets of gangland London.
- DirectorMarwan HamedStarsAdel EmamNour El-SherifYoussraMeditations on corruption, fundamentalism, prostitution, homosexuality, and drugs in central Cairo.
- DirectorTamer El SaidStarsKhalid AbdallaLaila SamyHanan YoussefA documentary filmmaker in Cairo is having difficulty finishing his film, so his friends send him footage from the cities they live in: Baghdad, Beirut, and Berlin.
- DirectorKawthar YounisStarsKawthar YounisMokhtar YounisMokhtar, a filmmaking professor, receives an unexpected gift on his 75th birthday from his daughter Kawthar, a filmmaker in her early twenties. With two plane tickets to Rome, they set out in search of his long lost love - Patrizia - the woman he promised to return to thirty-three years ago. Being filmed unknowingly throughout the trip, Mokhtar's raw emotions are captured by his daughter's hidden camera. As voyeurs to this quest for love, we are immersed in the lives of the father and daughter, and the triumphs and tribulations they experience during their trip.
- DirectorMohamed DiabStarsNilli KarimHany AdelMuhammad El-SebaiSet entirely in an 8m police truck, a number of detainees from different political and social backgrounds are brought together by fate, during the turmoil that followed the ousting of former president Morsi from power.
- DirectorHala KhalilStarsMenna ShalabiAmeer Salah EldinAhmed RatebEvery day Nawara goes to work along a path that takes her between the alleys of the poor neighborhood and the roads that lead to the villas within a luxury compound. Every day, on her way to work, she carries the worries of the people in her neighborhood and their simple dreams. Little does she know that the spring of 2011 will bring her something unexpected.
- DirectorMohammed HammadStarsHeba AliAsmaa FawziJohn Ekram HannaA defining week in Iman's life goes by as she attempts to convince any of her uncles to attend her younger sister's engagement in her deceased father's place, as is tradition. However, a shocking discovery prompts her to do away with all these withered traditions that she once clung to.
- DirectorAhmad AbdallaStarsKal NagaYousra El LozyHanan Motawie8 characters skew lifelines that never really intersect in the suburb of Heliopolis in Cairo within a frame of time of 24 hours all in a very stagnant state and never achieving goals.
- DirectorMahmoud KamelStarsAhmad El-FishawiMohamed FaroukShereen RedaA hustler and drug addict finds a crime video of a widow from his neighbourhood killing a child. He blackmails her to pay-off his debt only to get tangled in a twisted and altered relationship in which they fall into addiction until the murder is unexpectedly unraveled.
- DirectorHala ElkoussyStarsSalma SamyMenha BatraouiMarwan AlazabIn a hot and politically challenged Cairo actress Aida and her neighbor, the aging diva Samiha, are thrown out on the streets. Together with the street smart Yassin, they try to find a place to live, forcing them to confront with their past.
- DirectorHadi El BagouryStarsAmr YoussefAhmed MalekAhmed DawoodDr. Shukri Mokhtar is a renowned social psychology specialist, best known for his ability to answer the simplest questions. He decides to give one last lecture on the very simple question: "How do we love?"
- DirectorIman KamelThe lost diary of a Bedouin girl inspires a filmmaker's journey back home.
- DirectorMohamed HishamJareedy is a film that was shot in Nouba in Egypt.. It highlights the story of a boy named Konnaf who faces his life long fear & overcomes it after a lot of inner debate & challenge with the self.. His fear was to reach a rock in the middle of the Nile through a traditional boat (Jareedy) since he doesn't know how to swim & that's unusual for people who live on the shores of the Nile.. Throughout the journey Konnaf was guided & mentored by Abraz, who's an old boat craftsman.. Abraz lived the displacement from Nouba in 1964 & helped Konnaf reach his dream by inspiring him with stories from the past..
- DirectorAhmed MagdyStarsAmr SaadDorra ZarroukAhmed MagdyA seemingly traditional journey of a young sheikh in a governmental mosque who moves from leading prayers to becoming a TV celebrity issuing "fatwas" that are accepted by millions who have become fans of his as a result of his courage and his attempts to deviate from the usual religious rhetoric in a society heavily influenced by fundamentalism. The TV spotlight only shows his eloquent yet sarcastic answers he gives to the callers in a preset scenario, while in the dark and cloudy space around him, bloody struggles for power are raging, struggles he had always tried to avoid. But as Hatem continues his rise, the more he finds temptations and the less he has chances of salvation. Sheikh Hatem finds himself caught in a complex network of conflict, between the partial loss of a son being treated abroad and a wife whose love has grown cold, and security institutions trying to control him and-using his vulnerabilities-exploiting him to serve their interests. Meanwhile, a sovereign entity entangles him in solving a problem for the president, whose son causes the family an embarrassment of such a fragile society can't handle. "I cannot tell the entire truth, but I do my very best to speak nothing else." This is what Sheikh Hatem tries to do. Will he be able to create even a small fracture in a thick wall of hypocrisy and fear?...
- DirectorMahmood SolimanAn Egyptian woman is trying to look after her four children, especially in the lead-up to and aftermath of her divorce from their father. However, over time, the circumstances around her gradually change on all levels.
- DirectorKhaled El HagarStarsSalwa Mohamed AliNahed El SebaïMahmoud El-BizzawyWhen misuse of power , passion and poverty destroy human values during a revolution
- DirectorJed RothsteinStarsSherine AmrGameela IsmailAyman NourIn 2008, we travel to Egypt to tell the story of heavy metal in a conservative Muslim country. We meet the kids in Cairo's tight knit underground music scene who are the film's main characters, including the sons of the country's foremost political dissidents and the Muslim World's first all-female metal band. Living under an oppressive regime, they're denied the basic right to free expression, and risk arrest just for playing their music... Then halfway through our story, a revolution begins, casting them, and us, into the unknown, opening new horizons, and presenting our main characters with a new set of life changing dilemmas.
- DirectorMohamed SiamA young Egyptian filmmaker recounts his interaction with a group of plainclothes policemen while grappling with issues of guilt and morality.
- DirectorSherif NakhlaStarsSobhy BedeirOmar KhairatEzzat Abu OufNamed after the legendary band Les Petits Chats of the cherished era of the 60s and 70s. The six members, who are now major celebrities and musicians, are reunited to perform one last time in a night to remember in spring 2010.
- DirectorPhilippe DibWael OmarTracks the Egyptian historian Mahmoud Sabit who inherited a palace that dates back to the royal family, as he unveils the story behind 'Oil and Sand', an 8 mm film shot by his parents and members of the royal court only a few weeks before the royal Egyptian family was overthrown in a coup d'état in 1952. Sabit assembles the last surviving copy of the film, reconstructing the story behind it, members of the royal family who appeared there, and the political circumstances surrounding the film.
- DirectorMai MasriStarsMaisa Abd ElhadiNadira OmranRakeen SaadA young Palestinian schoolteacher gives birth to her son in an Israeli prison where she fights to protect him, survive and maintain hope.
- DirectorHany Abu-AssadStarsTawfeek BarhomQais AttaallahHiba AttalahMohammed Assaf, an aspiring musician living in Gaza, sets a seemingly impossible goal: to compete on the program "Arab Idol."
- DirectorFarid EslamStarsZeid HamdanShadi ZaqtanMaii Waleed YassinYALLAH! follows today's most important and progressive underground artists from Egypt, Lebanon, Palestine, Jordan and Israel through years of rapid change from 2009 to 2014.
- DirectorMohamed FaroukKhaled MareiStarsAhmed HelmyDonia Samir GhanemSabreenNoor and Leila must to assume the role of the couple who spending their honeymoon in "Sharm el-Sheikh" because of Accommodation they decided to exploit.
- DirectorAhmad Nader GalalStarsAhmed HelmyLaila Ezz El ArabMahmood El-FishawiA guy lives the same day over and over and deals with the same events each time which changes the way he looks to his life.
- DirectorMohamed DiabStarsNilli KarimBushraMaged El-KidwaniUnfolds the poignant story of three women and their search for justice from the daily plight of sexual harassment in Egypt.
- DirectorMohamed SamyStarsTamer HosnyGhadah AdelIntesarDr. Sherif (Tamer Hosny) who works as a plastic surgeon, gets to know a young lady whom he falls in love with. But when he is introduced to her single mum (Ghada Adel) he falls in love with her instead. Trying his best ways to get her attention.
- DirectorHany Abu-AssadStarsAdam BakriLeem LubanyEyad HouraniA young Palestinian freedom fighter agrees to work as an informant after he's tricked into an admission of guilt by association in the wake of an Israeli soldier's killing.
- DirectorAnnemarie JacirStarsSuheir HammadSaleh BakriRiyad IdeisA romantic drama about a working-class woman and her experiences traveling back home.
- DirectorNaji Abu NowarStarsJacir Eid Al-HwietatHussein Salameh Al-SweilhiyeenHassan Mutlag Al-MaraiyehIn the Ottoman province of Hijaz during World War I, a young Bedouin boy experiences a greatly hastened coming-of-age as he embarks on a perilous desert journey to guide a British officer to his secret destination.
- DirectorNadine LabakiStarsClaude Baz MoussawbaaNadine LabakiYvonne MaaloufA group of Lebanese women try to ease religious tensions between Christians and Muslims in their village.
- DirectorHany Abu-AssadStefan ArsenijevicAida BegicStarsAli SulimanHiam AbbassEsin AlpoganAn aged mother with her middle aged daughter travels from Palestine to Istanbul, Turkey, to meet some relatives. This and other short stories give us a clue about the city of Istanbul.
- DirectorHany Abu-AssadStarsClara KhouryKhalifa NatourIsmael DabbagAbout a Palestinian girl of 17 who wants to get married to the man of her own choosing. Rana wakes up one morning to an ultimatum delivered by her father: she must either choose a husband from a preselected list of men, or she must leave Palestine for Egypt with her father by 4:00 that afternoon. With ten hours to find her boyfriend in occupied Jerusalem, she sneaks out of her father's house at daybreak to find her forbidden love Khalil (Natour).
- DirectorHany Abu-AssadStarsKais NashifAli SulimanLubna AzabalTwo childhood friends are recruited for a suicide bombing in Tel Aviv.