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- DirectorEnas El-DegheidyStarsAhmed EzzHind SabriMuhammad RagabOne of the most controversial Egyptian movies ever made. An adult teen drama about Gameela a dreamy girl with two lives. A real unsatisfying life with on the edge of divorce parents and a strict mother. Her other life is as Cleopatra having a love affair with Anthony. But she happens to meet the guy at the real life and have a true love affair. But with her strict mother, her best friend being jealous of her trying to destroy the affair, her wealthy spoiled rich boy trying to seduce her, and having her other friends' sexual experiences with the tragic ending as a bad example. The problem explodes when the affair goes to sexual levels.
- DirectorYousry NasrallahStarsHind SabriAmr WakedGamil RatibA 48-hour journey into modern Cairo following the parallel lives of Youssef and Leila.
- DirectorSherif ArafaStarsMahmoud YassineAhmed El SakkaHind Sabri'El Gezira' is a film about a community of Upper Egypt residents living in El Gezira (the Island). They have their own set of rules, ethics and traditions. They also plant drugs and buy arms from Sudan. The officer in charge of the region turns a blind eye to these happenings, and in the beginning, the government takes no heed of the Island. At the start of the film, we witness the death of the old 'Kabir el Gezira' (the island's ruler), leaving the land to his son Mansour. The first half follows Mansour as he takes control of his land and must deal with a band of other drug lords who are greedy to take control of the island. The second half of the film deals with the political conflict. It follows the government's side of things (which finally decides to take action) at the same time as Mansour's side as the two react to each other's threats and the conflict escalates. 'El Gezira' is a multi-genre picture. It is a thematic film on Egyptian politics, but also a drama, romance, action and thriller.
- DirectorSherif ArafaStarsMahmoud YassineAhmed El SakkaHind Sabri'El Gezira' is a film about a community of Upper Egypt residents living in El Gezira (the Island). They have their own set of rules, ethics and traditions. They also plant drugs and buy arms from Sudan. The officer in charge of the region turns a blind eye to these happenings, and in the beginning, the government takes no heed of the Island. At the start of the film, we witness the death of the old 'Kabir el Gezira' (the island's ruler), leaving the land to his son Mansour. The first half follows Mansour as he takes control of his land and must deal with a band of other drug lords who are greedy to take control of the island. The second half of the film deals with the political conflict. It follows the government's side of things (which finally decides to take action) at the same time as Mansour's side as the two react to each other's threats and the conflict escalates. 'El Gezira' is a multi-genre picture. It is a thematic film on Egyptian politics, but also a drama, romance, action and thriller.
- StarsHind SabriSawsan BadrAhmed Fouad SelimA young pharmacist from a middle class family hopes to get married before turning thirty.
- DirectorMarwan HamedStarsAdel EmamNour El-SherifYoussraMeditations on corruption, fundamentalism, prostitution, homosexuality, and drugs in central Cairo.
- DirectorMohamed AliStarsKal NagaHind SabriBasma"Essam" (Khaled A. Naga) & "Laila" (Hend Sabri) have known each other for years, and are not really good friends, but they became good friends... best friends!, Would sex ruin the friendship/relationship?.
- DirectorKhaled YoussefStarsHani SalamaSherif MounirMenna ShalabiTwo strangers try to solve a mystery that revolves around both of their tragic pasts. At the heart of the mystery lies a mystic board with an ability to kill.
- DirectorKamlah Abu-ZikriStarsMahmoud HemidaKal NagaHind SabriDr.Mahmoud, Hend and Tarek face life crisis each in his own way and affects them in the most unexpected ways, Each finds a new face of their characters.
- DirectorMohamed KhanStarsKal NagaHind SabriMenna ShalabiStory of two working girls and their adventures in the city
- DirectorHala KhalilStarsHanan TurkHind SabriMenna ShalabiA personal tragedy brings a woman closer to a handful of trusted friends in this independent drama. Salma (Hanan Turk) is a middle-aged woman who has achieved success in her profession but is still searching for contentment in her personal life. After her mother unexpectedly dies, Salma is sent into an emotional tailspin, and while her stepfather (Samie Al-Adel) tries to help by letting her move into his home, nothing seem to make her feel better. One day, Salma receives the first in a series of anonymous gifts and letters from someone who appears to know her, though she has no idea who they might be. As Salma sorts through a handful of male admirers in hopes of uncovering the identity of her new benefactor, she is reunited with two close friends from her days at school, Yusriyah (Hend Sabri) and Doha (Menna Shalabi), who commiserate with her as they share their own difficult life events. Ahla al Awqat (aka The Best of Times) was the first feature from writer and director Hala Khalil, and was screened as part of the 2005 San Francisco Arab Film Festival.
- DirectorAhmed AtefStarsHani SalamaNourSomaya El KhashabA group of students get a scholarship in Switzerland, they happen to fall in love..
- DirectorAhmad Nader GalalStarsHani RamziHind SabriEsam KarikaA down-to-earth, struggling taxi driver (Ramzi) discovers, by sheer chance, that his country's constitution grants him a share in the nation's entire public property. He proceeds to collecting power-of-attorney documents from over 50% of the population in order to literally sell out the country so that he could get married.
- DirectorSaad HendawyStarsHani SalamaNicole SabaKhaled El-SawiMurad is from a rich fractured family. He grew up lonely and lost. He found crime as a way to vent his anger, but Rima showed up to become his way out of this deep.
- DirectorMohamed AliStarsMohamed AliShady KhalafAhmed Rateb
- DirectorKhaled YoussefStarsHani SalamaSomaya El KhashabMai Ezz EldinIn this intriguing and entertaining thriller, Khalid Youssef tells the story of a young, rich man (Hani Salama) who kills his wife and his brother when he finds them in bed together. After he evades prosecution we start to wonder whether the killings were really spontaneous or if perhaps he had plotted everything in advance to get rid of both of them. Told from shifting perspectives in the style of Akira Kurosawa's Rashomon, including those of the hero, his mistress and a police detective investigating the case, the film moves around the murders cleverly, in a manner as unconventional and exciting as the story itself. Very convincing characters are involved in a game that requires a hefty dose of imagination from the audience. The film contains violence.
- DirectorKhaled YoussefStarsHani SalamaNilli KarimMenna ShalabiYoussef and his wife are leading a tranquil and happy life in Hurghada with their young son when tragedy strikes. Youssef is diagnosed with cancer. He decides not to tell his wife and to spare her the pain of watching him suffer and die, tells her he is taking a trip out of Egypt. Dealing with his pain in suffering and solitude, he meets a young girl who is suffering from the same disease. She has decided she will triumph over the disease and instills the strength in Youssef to do the same. In their joint struggle they also fall in love. Youssef's wife has been searching for him and finds out about the love affair. The three lives are tangled in an emotional dilemma, who has what right to life love and happiness. It will take a miracle to unravel the problems.
- DirectorAli IdrisStarsMoustafa AmarHani SalamaNourTwo friends working as announcers at cable network channel, competing.
- DirectorTarek AlarianStarsHani SalamaHala ShehaAhmed HelmyA divorced young man happens to fall in love. The couple faces problems, as the young man does not want to settle down, she thinks he is a flirt, they break up, and events follows.
- DirectorKhaled YoussefStarsYoussraHanan TurkHani SalamaThis drama from Egyptian filmmaker Khaled Youssef offers Western audiences an unusual perspective on the Gulf War, as a family is torn apart by conflicting personal and political allegiances. Hoda (Yousra) is a schoolteacher who became a single mother after her husband, a victim of post-traumatic stress disorder, left his family behind. Ten years later, Hoda has raised her two sons, Aly (Mohamed Nagati) and Nagy (Hani Salama), to young adulthood, and has declined to remarry, despite the presence of her supportive boyfriend Mahmoud (Hisham Selim). Nagy has fallen in love with Hayat (Hanan Turk), a student and political activist from a wealthy family, but her parents don't want her to marry a man without a fortune of his own. As Nagy tries to save enough money to convince Hayat's family he's a worthy husband, Aly decides to help by getting a job to make more money for the family; however, work is hard to come by in Egypt, so he moves to Iraq to take a position there. Once Aly has settled into his new life in Iraq, the war in the Gulf breaks out, and the two brothers discover to their horror that they're fighting in opposing armies -- Aly comes home to swear allegiance to Egypt and join their forces, while Nagy, under the influence of Hayat, has thrown his support behind Iraq. La Tempete, aka Al Assifa received its American premiere at the 2001 San Francisco Film Festival
- DirectorBassem AliHossam AliMai MamdouhStarsMenna ShalabiAsser YassinMohamed MamdouhA basketball couch Bashir ends up living in a same flat with a drum player Bebo. Unaware of each others flat mates, they meet and fall in love, waiting to be surprised...
- DirectorAhmad Samir FaragStarsSharif SalamahMenna ShalabiLotfy LabibSingle coworkers at a radio station are brought together by mutual friends, but their starry-eyed notions about love may scuttle their romance.
- DirectorAhmad AwwadhStarsMai Ezz EldinDunya AbdulazizMaha AhmedA mother works hard to raise her only daughter Muna after her husband died, and she supports her until she reaches the university level in her education, but one day the mother did not approve of the relationship between her daughter and young man who lives in the same neighborhood because he didn't finish his university education, so the mother told the daughter that the only way for this man to marry her is after he finishes the university studies.