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Tag Archives: Arabic
The Best of Times AKA Ahla al awkat (2004) Hala Khalil, Hanan Turk, Hind Sabri, Menna Shalabi
A personal tragedy brings a woman closer to a handful of trusted friends in this independent drama. Read More »
In the Last Days of the City AKA Akher Ayyam el-Madinah (2016) Tamer El Said, Khalid Abdalla, Laila Samy, Hanan Youssef
A documentary filmmaker in Cairo is having difficulty finishing his film Read More »
Beggars and Noblemen (1991) Asmaa El-Bakry, Salah El-Saadany, Mahmood El-Gindi, Abdulaziz Makhyoon
The setting is Cairo in June of 1945, during the last days of the Second World War. Read More »
The Nightingale’s Prayer AKA Doa al karawan (1959) Henry Barakat, Faten Hamamah, Ahmad Mazhar, Aminah Rizq
This compelling tale of love and betrayal, set in the upper Egyptian countryside Read More »
Cairo 30 AKA Al-Kahira thalatin (1966) Salah Abouseif, Suad Husni, Ahmad Mazhar, Hamdy Ahmed
Mahgoub Abdel Dayem a young nihilistic college student, having his father crippled Read More »
Insan Hayawan Chay’ (2014) Boudy Sfeir, Issam Al Achkar, Nader Dernaika, Julian Farhat
Three students Ramzi, Sam and Sahar sent by their psychology teacher Nour Read More »
Coming Forth by Day AKA Al-khoroug lel-nahar (2012) Hala Lotfy, Donia Maher, Salma Al-Naggar, Ahmad Lutfi
Those who have fully enjoyed their bodies cannot be submissive. Read More »
Rendezvous with a Stranger AKA Maweed maa maghoul (1959) Atef Salem, Samia Gamal, Samia Glowalla, Hussein Kamal
The gang of murdering a factory personnel manager to facilitate the task of financial aid Read More »
We Are the Bus People AKA Ehna Betoa El Otobees (1979) Hussein Kamal, Adel Emam, Abdel Moneim Madbouly, Saeed Abdulghani
Adel Imam and neighbour Abdel Moneim Madbouly are taken to a Police station Read More »
The Silences of the Palace AKA Samt El Qusur (1994) Moufida Tlatli, Hind Sabri, Ghalya Lacroix, Nejia Ouerghi
Set in 1950s Tunisia, a 25-year-old woman, Alia, returns to her place of birth-a prince’s Read More »
Razzia (2017) Nabil Ayouch, Maryam Touzani, Arieh Worthalter, Amine Ennaji
The streets of Casablanca provide the centerpiece for five separate narratives that all collide into one. Read More »
Bitter Bread (2019) Abbas Fahdel
Chronicles of daily life in a Syrian refugee camp in Lebanon. Read More »
The Citadel AKA El kalaa (1989) Mohamed Chouikh, Djillali Ain-Tedeles, Khaled Barkat, Fatima Belhadj
In a small village in rural Algeria, the “village idiot” is madly in love with a married woman. Read More »
Zaytoun (2012) Eran Riklis, Stephen Dorff, Abdallah El Akal, Alice Taglioni
In 1982, amid the Lebanese Civil War, Israeli pilot Yoni (Stephen Dorff) is shot down over Beirut Read More »