In Algeria, in 1991, amid the rise of fundamentalism, Ali, a family man, allows himself to be influenced by three extremists and drags his wife into a nightmare. For fundamentalists, "demons" can nestle within women, so they must be exorcised of this "diabolical" presence.
Amer shares with Saif in counterfeiting dollars, Amer leaves the money bag in his car. The young Hussein steals the car and is sentenced to three years in prison for failing to prove that he does not own the bag. Amer cedes his apartment to Saif, who demands him for the value of the bag, and writes him a check for the rest of the amount. Hussein is released and tries to convince Amer to confess the truth.
Mahdi, 28 years old, an architect who is involved in a stunt of trafficking by a gang of manipulators orchestrated by Si Lamine, who forces Mahdi to impersonate a businessman who owns the wealthiest bank in Africa, while using his own daughter as bait to force him to play the game.
After a tempest, fishermen do not find only fish in their nets. That is what happens to Jafaar, a poor fisherman who lives poorly in Gaza. And what he hauls in is really upsetting: imagine that, a pig! An unclean animal judged impure not only by the Faith of Islam but also by the Jewish religion. Determined to get rid of the animal, Jafaar tries desperately to sell it, first to a United Nations official, then to a Jewish colony where Yelena raises pigs not for their meat but for security reasons. Of course, going unnoticed in the company of a "forbidden" animal, among his Palestinian brothers, past Israeli soldiers and under the scrutiny of Islamic fundamentalists is no bed of roses and a series of misadventures await Jafaar.
This concise masterpiece began as a commission by French TV for the news series Envoyé spécial. By filming Cairo with his unique sense of artistic digression, Chahine transformed this portrait of a city into the self-portrait of a filmmaker.
A copy of the filmmakers' first feature film disappeared somewhere in Yemen on the 10th anniversary of the reunification of north and south. A year later, they returned to track down the print, embarking on a journey that would take them across forbidding terrain from Sana to Aden. What they discover is a land of contradictions where film is openly reviled and secretly loved, teaching them much about their status as filmmakers in the Middle East.
In crisis-stricken Lebanon, five unlikely friends launch a daring online venture that unexpectedly ignites a movement for personal liberation and social change.
Tamara, with a child from a marriage that did not last long, is from an impoverished aristocratic family. To save her family from bankruptcy, Tamara is to marry Hassan Al-Dabbah, owner of one of the largest meat empires in the Middle East. Despite his wealth, Hassan comes from a nouveau riche family. Shortly before the wedding, the families spend a week together to oversee the wedding preparations. The differences between the families becomes apparent, and behind the fake smiles, all parties supervise the final wedding details. These details are overseen by Omar, Tamara's old love, who has created a rock sculpture to give a unique character to the wedding. This sculpture will become the source of several disputes during the wedding.
Ramzi, a straight young man, works as a corporate account manager with his fiancée (Madiha). He discovers the embezzlement of the company and informs his fiancée of his intention to inform the authorities. Madiha informs the president of the company, and Ramzi is charged, arrested and imprisoned.
A sprawling, masterful depiction of a day in the life of Algiers by arguably Algeria’s greatest living filmmaker, Merzak Allouache.
'Zinzana' is a psychological thriller set in a prison. Our hero finds himself locked in a cell with no I.D and no memory of what happened the night before. But being unable to make bail is the least of his problems when he's forced to play a madman's twisted game in order to save his family's lives.
Kahyoun Won the Million a play staring Mohamed Negm
This is the story of young Hassem, the son of a powerful sheik, set at the beginning of Hegira. When the youngster's uncle is murdered, Hassem decides to go to Mecca with a view to finding the culprit and punishing him. But what he discovers there is not the murderer but the prophet Muhammad. Touched by grace, Hassem converts to the new religion and comes back to his village to propagate the new faith. Which is not to his father's liking, since the Muslim religion is opposed to feudal rights and privileges. The infuriated sheik curses his son and starts persecuting the new converts.
At a bus stop near Beirut, a veiled Lebanese woman and a migrant Syrian worker get in a tumultuous moment and are arrested. They must argue their innocence in the face of the only witnesses: a bus full of women on their way to Koran school, each with her version of the truth.
Α tragi-comedy about 9 women of different ages and various backgrounds that gather in an Algerian hammam to talk about their lives.
Filmed in Beirut in the Spring of 1984, in many ways a letter about warfront.
Memories of Hani Shenouda, is a concert in honor of the musician Hani Shenouda, which was held in Saudi Arabia in the presence of a group of stars
In a small Lebanese village, Nohad Al Chami endures cruelty under her mother-in-law’s roof, finding solace only in her deep faith. When tragedy strikes, a miraculous intervention from Saint Charbel transforms her pain into grace, revealing the strength of the faithful human spirit and the mystery of Divine Mercy.
When her husband died Soumicha, mother of three, had to earn a living. She became the only woman taxi driver in Sidi Bel-Abbès, Algeria. This film accompanies Soumicha around a city where religious and political violence rages, and records her experiences in a job normally reserved for men.
(Dalida) dreams to be a famous model, but fate prevents it. When she has an accident and finds that she can't go to heaven because of being selfish. She returns back to the earth in the body (Alyiaa) where she has to face reality and accept herself.
Engi the journalist works with her husband in the same place, because of their different political views they experience funny social situations.
Inside a wax museum that contains statues of historical figures, we find a statue of Al-Dahih, but after the sun sets, something suspicious is happening, as the statues come to life and history repeats itself.
In a dramatic context, the events of the series deal with the changes of the social relations between the Shazli family members and its head, Mahmoud, from the Royal era until the events of 1952.
The events take place inside a marble factory in the Shaq Al-Tha'ban area, where Fahd works as a marble craftsman in the factory, after escaping from his family in Upper Egypt due to being subjected to injustice. He then falls in love with his colleague (Kanaria), but the competition between him and her father in the marble market poses major obstacles to their relationship.
The events take place in a historical context, in the 11th century, where the leader of the Assassins, Hassan al-Sabah, and his leadership of the band that was famous for carrying out bloody assassinations of prominent figures at that stage.
After falling in love, Nassar, a professional thief, is determined to leave the world of crime. But he soon finds himself in the middle of a fierce war waged against him by those affected by his decision.
A medical drama about the stories of a large number of doctors, staff and patients at Dr. Galal's hospital, and the daily challenges that the hospital staff faces both in their work and their personal lives.
Revolves around a national epic in the files of the Egyptian intelligence on the biography of the Egyptian hero, Rifat Ali Suleiman Al-Jamal, who was planted inside the Israeli community to spy for the Egyptian intelligence. He was instrumental in preparing for the October War.
Born into beauty and poverty, Esh Esh is forced into becoming a dancer. She unexpectedly enters the world of the Greitleys, only to discover that her tragic fate was written long before she ever took the stage.
Taking place during the month of Ramadan in a local neighborhood, where one of the girls tries to disavow her family and her social level. She claims that she is from a wealthy family in order to meet a young man who she falls in love with.
After the death of their father, rivalry breaks out among his children when the eldest son discovers that his name has been excluded from the will.
The story of Ahmed Saber Al-Mansi, commander of the 103rd Brigade, Thunderbolt, who was martyred in the ambush of the Burth Square in the Egyptian city of Rafah in 2017 while responding to a terrorist attack in the Sinai.
Selim al-Ansary is a morally-conscious police officer who is talented at his job. He is constantly criticized by those around him, even his mother, and is perceived as an evil person. When a murder inside the police station unjustly points to him as a suspect, he gets arrested, but he decides to escape to prove his innocence.
The two lovers, Hazem and Hana, decide to have their baby in America to get the nationality. However, they come across many obstacles that threaten their marriage, especially when Hana stays in America and does not come back.
Adam turns into a lawyer in a large law firm by chance, when he reveals his secret to lawyer Zain, and together they handle many challenging cases.
Amina decides to be independent, her family refused so she ran to participate in a weird competition, if she wins she'll get a scholarship and money.
A young man named Youssef works on a project to manufacture a robot with artificial intelligence, and when he succeeds in creating the two delicious Zumba models, his life and the life of his family are quickly turned upside down.
The series chronicles the life of the iconic artist Ismail Yassine who started his career as a singer in Suez, and his long journey until he became the top comedian in the 1950s.
