A group of youngsters establishes a private university after failing to get high grades in high school. They reveal through this university a lot of errors and constraints in the educational system in Egypt, which affect even their personal lives.
Youssef, a student at the Faculty of Fine Arts, responds to the call of talent and love of drawing against his family's wishes.
A photojournalist bears witness to a murder and takes photos of the incident, only to find himself involved in the crime. When he becomes a suspect, it's up to him to prove his innocence.
Over the course of one night, the journalist Omar embarks on a risky adventure in order to save himself and his friends.
In Egypt, an iconic archaeological painting by an Italian artist is stolen, and the abbots deliberately conceal the crime to avoid scandal. This incident reignites an old conflict between Father Maurice and Father Francis, stemming from their differing views on life.
Hisham and Hadia, who work at the same advertising agency, an invitation to spend a vacation in Marsa Alam, in a resort owned by Sherihan. Hisham takes his wife, Aida, and Hadia takes her husband, Adel, and the four of them go on a vacation that will put their marriages to the test.
Four brothers committing crimes with a promise among them to stop someday. When a deal goes south, the older brother says it's enough, but the other three disagree and recklessly do business with a wanted crime lord.
After killing an orphan boy called (Karim) with her car, (Mona) suffers a psychological shock that made her imagine that Karim lived and grew up. She writes a novel about him and imagined herself to be (Nour) the heroine of the novel,who loved (Karim) and wished to live with him.
Commissioned to mark the 60th anniversary of the Cannes Film Festival, "To Each His Own Cinema" brought together 33 of the world's pre-eminent filmmakers to produce short pieces exploring the multifarious facets of cinema and their perspective on the state of their chosen artform in the early 21st century.
When a day in the life of a beleaguered Egyptian filmmaker goes sideways, he witnesses anew issues like class and gender relations.
Three years after the events of the first film, the four brothers are trying in various ways to preserve the covenant they made to themselves to stay away from a life of theft and crime, but one event in their lives changes all that, and introduces them to new worlds for them, and puts them in very dangerous confrontations with A number of professional criminals.
Years have passed since the brothers have separated in their different ways of life. But one day, a ghost from the past returns to cast a shadow over the sons of Rizk, forcing them to return to a life of crime and theft once again in order to save themselves, in a fateful operation that is the largest, most dangerous, and most important in the history of the sons of Rizk.
On his way to a DJ Championship in Brussels, a young Egyptian is mistaken for an illegal immigrant and detained in a country he's never heard of before.
A group of youngsters; a rich, a poor, a liberal, and a religious, all of them live a life full of turmoil and indecisiveness. The film depicts their lives, their love stories, and their dreams, and how their own hesitation impedes the fulfillment of their aspirations.
Wael El-Magic is an ambitious young man who wants to have a better life at any cost. He leads a group of friends as they form a swindling gang, which gets them into a lot of trouble.
Three stories take place over the course of a single day in Cairo. Lila, a retired actress, is looking for Sameh, her last co-star. Salma, is dating Wael and is in Wael's friend's apartment, after their marriage breaks down. Hazem is a young drug dealer on the run from Alexandria to Cairo and picks up an old man with Alzheimer's disease. The six characters find themselves at decisive points of their lives, which although disparate, are brought together by destiny, and are brought out through pitch-perfect performances by Egyptian cinema's legends.
During President Nasser's reign, Cairo was a place of quirky chaos, suspicion and mistrust, full of sharp jokes and overpriced dreams. The post office only delivers recruitment and scholarship letters. Surprisingly, Elizabeth from the capital of classical music sends a letter to Ahmed, a stubborn pianist. His family loves football. Nobody wants a pianist or a writer in the family.
In Egypt, an iconic archaeological painting by an Italian artist is stolen, and the abbots deliberately conceal the crime to avoid scandal. This incident reignites an old conflict between Father Maurice and Father Francis, stemming from their differing views on life.
The film embarks on a journey into the world of romantic relationships with their ups and downs and their impact on human lives through a number of different stories, and it presents a new perspective on love that goes beyond traditional concepts and reveals unfamiliar angles.
In 2007 Cairo, a zoologist at a failing park witnesses the suffering of the animals he’s sworn to protect, and begins to see his own family mirrored in their captivity trapped by circumstance and yearning for freedom. When a wealthy visitor offers to 'adopt' surplus animals from the zoo, the zoologist is drawn into a wrenching moral dilemma that tests the limits of integrity, sacrifice and love.