Abbas, a resident of Cairo, is appointed by the government to hold the office of supervisor in a post office in a small village in Upper Egypt. Read More »
Tag Archives: Arabic
Chronicle of the Years of Fire (1975)
A meticulous chronicle of the evolution of the Algerian national movement from 1939 until the outbreak Read More »
Our Memory Belongs to Us (2021) Rami Farah
Three Syrian activists are reunited on a theatre stage in Paris. Read More »
Hard Days (2008) Faadi Farouk, Hesham Abdel Hamid, Randa Al Behery, Salwa Khattab
A famous director at an independent channel, known for tackling political issues, falls for a well-known TV host. Read More »
Tajouj (1977) Gadalla Gubara, Salah ibn Al Badiya, Majda Hamadnalla
Beginning of the 20th century in the east of Sudan. Tajouj is the beautiful cousin of a young tribesman Read More »
Beirut the Encounter (1981) Borhane Alaouié, Haithem el Amine, Nadine Acoury, Najoua Haydar
Just after telephone communication is restored between the warring East and West sides of Beirut Read More »
Casanegra (2008) Nour Eddine Lakhmari, Anas El Baz, Omar Lotfi, Mohamed Benbrahim
Two childhood friends, Karim and Adil, prowl the streets of Casablanca, their native city. Read More »
The River of Love (1960) Ezz El Dine Zulficar, Faten Hamama, Omar Sharif, Zaki Rostom
Nahr el Hub is the Egyptian adaptation of Leo Tolstoy’s “Anna Karenina”. Nawal, a rural girl, is married off Read More »
Winter of Discontent (2012) Ibrahim El-Batout, Amr Waked, Farah Youssef, Salah Alhanafy
Set against the momentous backdrop of the whirlwind Tahrir Square protests, Winter of discontent poetically Read More »
The Narrow Frame of Midnight / Itar el-layl (2014) Tala Hadid, Khalid Abdalla, Marie-Josée Croze, Fadwa Boujouane
A man in search of his brother and a young girl in search of a home, both running toward an unknown future. One finds freedom, the other death. Read More »