Zaki Fatin Abdel Wahab
1955 (70 лет)Abdel Wahab worked as a second assistant director in the movie People on the Top (1981) and as an assistant director in many of Youssef Chahine's films, including The Sixth Day (1986), in which he made his debut as an actor. He also acted in Alexandria Again and Forever (1989), I Love Cinema (2004), and starred in Yousry Nasrallah's Mercedes (1993). In 1996, Zaki directed his feature film Romantica, which was a biography of his life. He was the location manager of American films and miniseries shot in Egypt such as Mysteries of Egypt (1998) and The Mummy Returns (2001).
Zaki married actress Soad Hosny in 1981 after she separated from the film director Ali Badrakhan. However, they separated after only a few months of marriage, and he stated in more than one interview that the reason was his mother's opposition. He died in 2022 after a battle with lung cancer.
Summer Thefts
Yousry Nasrallah
Ahmad Mohamad Ahmad, Menha El Batrawy
Set in the summer of 1961 during President Nasser's land reforms, this is a story of the childhood friendship between Yasser, the son of a bourgeois landowner, and Leil, the son of an Egyptian peasant. When turbulent times tear Yasser's family apart, the boys team up for a money-making scheme that results in misadventures.
Summer Thefts
المدينة
Yousry Nasrallah
Bassem Samra, Amr Saad
Ali, an aspiring actor, works in a government-aided butchery and takes part in a cheap play. Defying his father's wishes, he moves to Paris to fulfill his dreams and starts living illegally alongside many other Arabs. Ali has a life-changing experience there that he won't fully remember until he returns to Egypt.
The City
إسكندرية كمان وكمان
Youssef Chahine
Youssef Chahine, Yousra
Set in 1987 against the backdrop of a hunger strike by the Egyptian film industry, Chahine himself steps in to play Yehia, the famed Egyptian director whose life is chronicled in "Alexandria, Why?" and "An Egyptian Story". Obsessed with Amr, the handsome actor he discovered and cast as his alter-ego in parts one and two of The Alexandria Trilogy, Yehia pressures Amr to star in various film projects that change even as Yehia's perception of the young actor begins to change. He first casts Amr as Hamlet, which the actor deems too demanding for his talents, then as the lead in a musical biopic of demigod Alexander the Great, who founded the city of Alexandria in 332 B.C.
Alexandria Again and Forever
مرسيدس
Yousry Nasrallah
Zaki Fateen Abdel Wahab, Magdy Kamel
Nubi, a wealthy man with Communist ties, sets out to find his half-brother Gamal, who has been disowned for being gay, to let him inherit his father's fortune. In the process, Nubi is supposed to kill Gamal's stepmother Raifa, a suspected drug dealer, before she can kill his half-brother.
Mercedes
حرام الجسد
Khaled El Hagar
Nahed El Sebai, Zaki Fateen Abdel Wahab
Hassan and Fatma are a couple, living and working in a farm of wealthy owner Mourad. In the first days of the Jan 25th revolution, Ali seizes a security breach to break out of jail and runs to his cousin Hassan, for shelter. The latter takes him in but soon after, Mourad discovers the love that Fatma and Ali shared, years ago. This romantic history, fuelled by mounting sexual frustration, will come back to haunt all those involved.
Sins of the Flesh
سكوت ح نصور
Youssef Chahine
Latifa, Ahmad Bedir
Malak is a star singer who lives with her mother and her daughter, Loula, in her villa after her divorce. She falls in love with an opportunist called Lam'ey, so her daughter sets out to expose him with the help of her lover, a driver called Nasser, and the director, Ezz-ElDin who deeply loves Malak.
Silence... We're Rolling
Romantica
Zaki Fateen Abdel Wahab
Mamdouh Abd El Aleem, Lucy
Hassan (Mamdouh Abd El Aleem), a young director, dreams of making a film about street hustlers in downtown, Cairo. He gets involved with them and their tough lives, and starts to be obsessed with Sabah (Lucy), a beautiful Hustler girl while being stuck in the writing process of his film.
Romantica
بين السما و الارض
Mohamed Gamal El-Adl
Hani Salama, Dorra
In a Cairo building, the elevator breaks down with a number of strangers trapped inside, leading to first-time introductions under severe stress that causes many paradoxes, as the individual stories of each person are revealed.
Between Heaven and Earth
واحد صحيح
Hadi El Bagoury
Hani Salama, Kinda Alloush
Try (Zizi Badrawi) to convince her son, an interior decorator Abdullah (Hani Salama) to marry, with the help of his friend and his partner (Amr Youssef), not that Abdullah resides illicit relationship with a businesswoman (Rania Youssef), at the time that it relates to anchor (Yasmine Al Rayes ) heart Abdullah and seeking to marry him, and his girlfriend are trying to (smile) restore Khabib following her split from her husband (Amr Youssef), but Abdullah did not care about his love of them, sweeping the girl Christian (linux hosting).
A Whole One
الفاجومى
Essam Al Shammaa
Khaled El Sawy, Salah Abdallah
A biography about Ahmed Fouad Negm, the famous poet of the Egyptian colloquial, depicting the important historical and revolutionary stages, from his struggle fighting the English occupation and political oppression, to his imprisonment and his relationship with his companion the composer Sheikh Imam Issa.
El Fagommi
لحظات انتحارية
Eman El-Naggar
Donia Maher, Zaki Fateen Abdel Wahab
A woman’s sudden death and a discovered family secret disrupt everyone’s lives. After Marwa buries her mother, she discovers her mother’s wish to be buried elsewhere. Only hours before she is to leave Egypt for good, Marwa’s aunt decides to come through with her promise and bury her sister where she wished. Only something goes wrong with the aunt’s plans. Now Marwa finds herself stuck with her mother’s body in a box, just a few meters from Tahrir Square where revolution breaks out.
Suicidal Notions
