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- After an 82-day separation, Adam travels a rough road to be reunited with the one he loves, whatever it takes.
- The film revolves around the relationship of two teenage sisters in one of Egypt's Nile Delta cities, one of them holds a secret life in the virtual world.
- Young art gallerist Katarina's dad suddenly goes missing. It turns out that her dad, a prominent art dealer, is kidnapped in Egypt by his former smuggle partner, who has been released due to the Arab spring. To save her father, Katarina has to find the hidden statue that the kidnapper demands as ransom.
- Alexandria is a city of ghosts. You can always feel these souls at unrest.
- Ahmed drives through the derelict nightscape of Cairo, anxious to secure money to pay for an abortion for a young woman - a procedure that must take place immediately. He comes across an intriguing group of young people, led by a woman who aims to solve the enigma surrounding a giraffe rumoured to be hidden at the Cairo zoo. As an absurd chain of events unfolds, Ahmed is distracted from his mission.
- While visiting New York from Egypt, Mark, a 32-year-old Christian-Orthodox, decides to lose his virginity, confronting all the cultural and religious restrictions that shaped his character.
- With the help of El Homossany; one of the oldest assistant directors in Egypt, Zedan; a young indie filmmaker, is making a documentary about Motawe Eweis, who has worked as an extra in about 1000 films in the Egyptian Cinema from the forties till now.
- Adam is an Egyptian teenager that only wants to land his skateboarding trick at a local mall. When his skateboard is confiscated by mall security, it's up to him and his best friend George to retrieve it.
- The film is based on the filmmakers' real encounter with an unknown European one night in a bar in Beirut in 2017. It was a man on the road to join the Kurdish militia fighting in the war against the Islamic state on the territory of Syria. The conversation was secretly recorded on a cellphone and serves as the script for animated modeled situations and reconstructions of that night. In addition to a fascinating probe into the thinking of a man who is willing to sacrifice his life for the struggle for freedom, the film is also a formal polemic on the apparent authenticity of the documentary and the possibilities of representation of reality by means of simulations and modeled situations.
- Pharmacy and pharmacist and demanded drugs in half of the night this is the film and the hero is a mutual tension through the characters through the events.
- After a hectic day during the Egyptian revolution of 2011, A middle-class young man found himself by a chance in an empty alley, tea cart with two old men. He decided to wait with them until the sunrise.
- Our place is on fire and we are on fire with it. If that, what we are, is not any longer and an eternal search begins - for who we are, where we stand and where we should go.
- A man and a woman meet while seeking cover from the rain. The conversation that follows could lead them to a new surprise in life.
- In the desert, near the Siwa Oasis, a traveler experiences moments of simultaneity between different cultures and historical eras when he wonders if his journey was predetermined.
- inspired from a short story entitled "The Beautiful Landscape Cafe" by the writer Mohamed Mansi Qandil, the director tried to deal with it in a sarcastic manner. The film begins with waiting moments that the elderly lead of the film, performed by Youssef Daoud, spends in the square in front of the Bibliotheca Alexandrina, with attempts to make phone calls, before finding a person of his age in front of him. He tells him that his friend will not come, and invites him to play "chess". but the mysterious character that appears to him sets a strange condition, which causes a tragedy.
- She is a young film director trying to be part of the Egyptian art scene. He is a professional film director who's an expert in making films. She comes to the cafe where he sits daily to write his films The dialogue turns into a bargaining that begins with talking about all the but eventually everything goes beyond the cliche.
- I wonder why she never visited me in my dreams since she has gone at least so that I would be sure that she was really here and not just an illusion of the adolescence period
- Egypts January 25, 2011 uprising has often been dubbed a leaderless and spontaneous revolution. Yet many youths have cited Mohamed ElBaradei as the person who galvanized them on the path to democracy with his National Association for Change in 2010. Through street mobilization and effective use of social media, ElBaradei encouraged youth to shed the culture of fear and challenge the inevitability of the Mubarak regime. The uprising was recognized globally as an historical role model for change, but the euphoria was short lived. Different factors, from the lack of democratic structures, disorganization of the youth movement, and the counter-revolution managed by the military and the Islamists, have all undermined the goals of the uprising, which were democracy, freedom, and social justice. In fact, the country is showing signs of regressing into a military-style dictatorship. The failure of the Egyptian revolution can contribute to an escalation of insecurity and instability in this part of the world. This 30-minute film documents an historic conversation in which Mohamed ElBaradei and Rajmohan Gandhi, historian, grandson and biographer of Mahatma Gandhi, compare notes on Egypt post-2011 and India during the time of Gandhi. Using dramatic images, historic footage, and comical animations this documentary probes pressing questions about how societies can transition from revolt to sustained democracy. How can people lead the change in the right direction while societies are fractured and polarized along identity-based lines? How can they overcome the forces of counter-revolution? What factors allow them to recognize that their strength is in their diversity? By taking the two cases of Egypt and India, this documentary raises larger questions about people-driven change. It offers thoughtful and informed reflections about how to move forward in this age of uprisings and social unrest in ways that will lead to a more just and sustainable world order.
- An inspection team from the World Bank arrives in an Egyptian village a few years after the revolution to assess how the transformation of agricultural management has progressed since the political upheaval. All of the activities are, as required, recorded by a television crew. We watch a drainage channel being built and visit the local museum. Everything seems to be as it should. However, the documentary's authors leave the camera switched on even after the television crew has finished their work. As a result, the official record includes behind-the-scenes views and the members of the television crew become just additional actors in the film. The carefully arranged scene becomes an absurdly active image with advertising overtones.
- Hayat hopes for the return of her fiance, ignoring the fact of his absence since years, standing in the same spot waiting day after day.
- Kenya's post-election violence received little coverage in the mainstream US media. Six-hundred thousand people were displaced and nearly 2,000 people died, but it was treated as a throw-away story, summarized as "just another tribal conflict in Africa." But the narrative of the barbaric Africans wasn't the whole story - and Tyler, an 24-year-old resident of California, knew that. He knew that because he had volunteered in Kenya in the months leading up to the election. His host father, Emmanuel Leina just so happened to be running for Member of Parliament. The then naive art student became an impassioned campaign speaker. It wasn't until Tyler return to California that the violence breaks out in Kenya. With limited news coverage, Tyler relies on Facebook to connect with Emmanuel. Each day is uncertain. Will Emmanuel survive or be killed? Thus emerged the documentary filmmaker. Risking everything, Tyler sets out to tell the story of peace he knew no one else would cover. What he saw would stay with him for 9 years until the completion of A Chance for Peace could be realized. When Tyler arrived in Kenya, three unsung heroes emerged. One, a vagabond street artist turned peace messenger; the second, a rural clinic nurse turned medical marvel; and the third, a Maasai pioneer in education transforming the future of his community literally from the ground up. Part travelogue, part testimony, part coming-of-age, A Chance for Peace shows us what it look like when we don't accept peace as just the absence of violence. The men, women, and children in this film collectively challenge the preconceived notions of Africa as hopeless and desperate and create a new identity of hope and action by will and faith alone. But with entire communities relying on them, how sustainable can it be? Before the answer to that question can be answered, Tyler first must undergo his own crisis to find out - a crisis that takes him all over the world from the slums of Nairobi to the streets of Cairo to learn about peace and to dismantle the misguided media narrative of Africa as "The Dark Continent."
- Islam Chipsy from Egypt and Aïsha Devi from Switzerland are two musicians whose main strength lies in their live performances, informed by a non-repetitive unique style that YouTube or SoundCloud will never be able to reproduce. One Plus One Makes a Pharaoh's Chocolate Cake documents the process of a week of meetings between Aïsha and Chipsy in Cairo, Egypt where they were asked to produce a collaborative music track. Shot on a VHS camera, the experimental, performative project was conceived to be full of improvisation, with no fear of failure from either the filmmakers or the musicians, and no pressure to produce a final product, be that a finished piece of music or a documentary film. Cultural exchange is not the process of "Here's my culture, I'll have some of yours" that we sometimes think it is. Rather, it is something that should be mutual and deeply based in commonality and equality. One Plus One Makes a Pharaoh's Chocolate Cake is an inquiry into the difficulties of artistic collaboration and questions whether anything is ever actually exchanged within so-called cultural exchange.
- Sedhom is a man in age of thirties, goes for fishing as usual and spends most of the day in failure efforts until the legendary courier arrives