FICTION FILMS

Youssef is a hotshot anesthesiologist who often sleeps in his car for privacy. Laila (Hend Sabri) is the careerist host of a late night radio call-in show. These two members of Cairo's elite...

In the 1990s at the height of the Syrian occupation of Lebanon, a photojournalist attempts to make a film about the brutal interrogation methods used by the shadowy intelligence se/?e of intrigue...

In his last film, completed with the help of longtime collaborator Khaled Youssef, Chahine concocts a tasty melodrama, with plenty of political bite, out of a tale about a crusading public...

Chahine reconsiders his ambiguous and contradictory relationship with the America he always professed to love. The film finds Chahine’s traditional alter ego Yehia in New York for a festival...

The film is structured as a film within a film where a filmmaker is working on a movie featuring his family and friends. The filmmaking process is itself punctuated by deliberations and...

An unusual perspective on the Gulf war, as a family is torn apart by conflicting personal and political allegiances. Hoda, a schoolteacher becomes a single mother after her husband, a victim of...
Frustrated with life as a butcher's assistant and under his father's thumb, Ali heads for Paris, only to discover that the only work he can get as an illegal immigrant is as a boxer in...