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Tag Archives: Arabic
Chaos / Heya fawda (2007) Youssef Chahine, Khaled Youssef, Khaled Saleh, Menna Shalabi, Youssef El Sherif
Choubra, cosmopolitan neighborhood of Cairo. Hatem, maggoty police officer Read More »
Ramparts of Clay AKA Remparts d’argile (1970) Jean-Louis Bertuccelli, Leila Shenna, Kricheche, Jean-Louis Trintignant
In 1962, change comes to a Tunisian village on the edge of the Sahara. Read More »
The Street Player AKA El harrif (1983) Mohamed Khan, Adel Emam, Fardous Abdel Hamid, Nagah El-Mogui
The life of a football player named Fares who goes through a lot of problems due to his lack Read More »
Kit Kat (1991) Daoud Abdel Sayed, Mahmoud Abdel Aziz, Sherif Mounir, Aida Riyad
Sheikh Hosny is a blind man who lives with his old mother and his frustrated son in the Kit Kat neighborhood. Read More »
The Yellow House AKA La maison jaune (2007) Amor Hakkar, Aya Hamdi, Tounes Ait Ali
Algeria, in the arid landscapes of the Aures Mountains, a little girl named Aya plowing a piece of land. Read More »
Where To? AKA Ila Ayn (1957) Georges Nasser, Laura Azar, Tannous Dik, Shakib Khouri
A family lives poorly in a village in the Lebanese mountain. Read More »
Hassan and Nayima AKA Hasan wa Naimah (1959) Henry Barakat, Muharram Fuad, Suad Husni, Mohammed Tawfik
Hajj Mitwalli is keen to acquire money and land. His daughter Naimah falls in love with Hasan Read More »
Sleepless AKA La anam (1957) Salah Abouseif, Faten Hamamah, Maryam Fakhruddin, Omar Sharif
‘I Never Sleep’ (also called ‘Sleepless’) is the story of Nadia Lotfi (Faten Hamama), a teenage girl Read More »
The Night of Counting the Years AKA Al-mummia (1969) Chadi Abdel Salam, Ahmed Marei, Ahmad Hegazi, Nadia Lutfi
Universally recognized as one of the greatest Egyptian films ever made Read More »