Ahmed Rateb
2021عسل أسود
Khaled Marei
Ahmed Helmy, Edwerd
Masry el Araby is an American-Egyptian citizen who travels back to his home town (in Egypt) after living in the US for 20 years. He has this idea of Egypt being a wonderful and amazing country, but the idea soon crashes as he faces reality. After arriving in Egypt, Masry is treated badly when he uses his Egyptian Passport. But then when he starts using his American Passport as an identification card, he is paid with a lot of respect. He faces many problems as he loses both passports.
Bittersweet
الإرهاب والكباب
Sherif Arafa
Adel Emam, Kamal el-Shennawi
Ahmad heads to Tahrir compound to extract papers to move his son to another school. There he clashes with the administrative obstacles. He finds himself suddenly involved in carrying a weapon, and taking hostages and is joined by others and soon the police forces surrounds the place.
Terrorism and Kebab
عمارة يعقوبيان
Marwan Hamed
Adel Emam, Nour El-Sherif
Cairo: a 70-year-old building of once-luxury flats with tenements on the roof. Zika, an aging libertine, feuds with his sister. Pius Haj Azzam takes a second wife, in secret, to satisfy sexual drive within religious bounds. Bothayna, poor and beautiful, supports her family, wanting to do so with dignity intact. Her former fiancé, Taha, the janitor's son, humiliated by the police, turns to fundamentalism. Hatem, a gay editor, seduces and corrupts a young man from the sticks. Two brothers, Copts, one a tailor and one Zika's factotum, connive for property. Allah is on most everyone's lips, and corruption is in their hearts.
The Yacoubian Building
طيور الظلام
Sherif Arafa
Ahmed Rateb, Yousra
Three lawyers, brought by friendship but separated by interests, Fathi Nofal, who turns from a committed lawyer to an opportunist, while Ali al-Zanati joins religious extremist groups to make financial gains , and the third Mohsen only works as a simple employee away from conflict.
Birds of Darkness
نوارة
Hala Khalil
Menna Shalabi, Mahmoud Hemida
Nawara works as a housemaid for a family closely linked to the Mubarak regime. On the eve of the 2011 revolution the family decides, for safety, to leave the country temporarily and ask her to look after the villa. Flush with cash for expenses, Nawara calls her fiancé Mustafa and the two are soon enjoying a taste of life at the top. Her journey from the alleys of her poor neighborhood to the luxury compound brings with it the worries of the people and their simple dreams—and an experience she could never have imagined.
Nawara
واحد من الناس
Ahmed Nader Galal
Karim Abdel Aziz, Menna Shalabi
Mahmoud is a simple young man, who is barely making ends meet working as security guard at a parking garage. Little did he know that doing the right thing upon witnessing a murder would drastically change his whole life.
One of the People
حتى لا يطير الدخان
Ahmed Yehia
Nadia Arslan, Ahmed Rateb
Fahmi Abdul Hadi .. A distinguished student of law school .. His dreams are simple and his actions are ideal and pure .. Fahmi collides with the bitter reality of life when losing his mother because he cannot afford the price of her treatment. At a time, He watches his colleagues around him spend money like water and making fun of his poverty and even refuse to help him to treat his mother. Fahmi decides to abandon the idealism and take revenge of all who failed him.
Hata La Yatir Al Dokhan
للحب قصة أخيرة
Raafat El-Mihi
Maaly Zayed, Yehia El-Fakharany
Refat is a teacher with a heart disease, who marries the poor girl Salwa, despite the opposition of his mother who is trying to persuade him to divorce her in exchange for his share in the inheritance. Salwa resorts to holy people hoping to cure her husband.
One Final Love Story
في شقة مصر الجديدة
Mohamed Khan
Khaled Abol Naga, Ghada Adel
Najwa, a music teacher from the city of Minya, Upper Egypt, seizes the opportunity to come to Cairo on a trip with her students to search for Tahany, her first teacher that taught her music and used to live in an apartment in Heliopolis.
In the Heliopolis Flat
Akher Al Rejal Al Mohtaramen
Samir Seif
Nour El-Sherif, Poussi
Teacher Fergany is assigned to supervise a school trip to the zoo in Cairo, during the trip a child disappears. He tries to search for her everywhere, to prevent renewed conflict between families in Upper Egypt.
The Last Respectful Man
المتسول
Ahmed El-Sabawy
Adel Emam, Esaad Younes
After his father's death, Hassanein al-Bartouchi (Adel Imam) returns from his village to Cairo. After Hassanein's failure in all the jobs he is assigned, he is expelled from his uncle's home to find himself with a group of beggars headed by Sayed Hamoush. In a high-end neighborhood, he finds himself involved with a corrupt businessman who believes Hassanein is working for the police.
The Begger
نهر الخوف
Mohamed Abo Seif
Mahmoud Abdel Aziz, Abla Kamel
The story revolves around a quarrel between three young men (Abdulrahman, Adel and Kamal) who were running over a girl walking in the street and between the parents of the girl. They are fans of Upper Egypt, and Abdul Rahman and his colleague get scared. They go to ride the river bus. The driver of the bus is not able to stand, and in the river bus a group of different human models, including the young mother who screams for fear of her children, three nurses and a lawyer who tells the kidnappers every moment of the punishment of these crimes, and the old man who pretends to August and goes against one of the nurses even during the kidnapping.
Nahr Al-Khawf
زهايمر
Amr Arafa
Fathy Abdel Wahab, Ahmad Rizq
Mahmoud Shuaib is a very wealthy man with two sons. He has Alzheimer's disease, which is starting to affect the way he spends his wealth. His two sons are worried that they may end up with nothing to inherit if their father keep this up, and attempt to take control of his estate through the court.
Alzheimer's
