On Borrowed Time

On Borrowed Time 2018

1

A feel-good comedy about aging, friendship and new directions, On Borrowed Time is director Yasir Al Yasir’s follow-up to his 2012 film Murk Light, which earned him the Best Short Narrative Award at the Abu Dhabi Film Festival. Taking place in and around a Dubai retirement home, the film follows four elderly men who appear to be settling in for the long haul—that is, until one of them receives an unexpected and mammoth inheritance.

2018

Ebb & Flow

Ebb & Flow 2024

1

Determined to have her first kiss, a young teenage girl defies her tumultuous world in search of normalcy.

2024

Upshot

Upshot 2024

8.00

Suleiman and Mona are a couple who lead a solitary life in which they care for animals and trees and have constant heated discussions about their children’s life choices. However, one day, their routine is disturbed when a stranger shows around, calling to mind a painful past.

2024

A Shot In The Dark

A Shot In The Dark 2020

1

A 10-year-old boy accidentally kicks his football into a cemetery at night, and has to go get it back.

2020

Alzheimer's

Alzheimer's 2010

6.29

Mahmoud Shuaib, a wealthy man diagnosed with Alzheimer's, begins making unusual financial decisions. Fearing for their inheritance, his two sons take legal action to gain control of his estate.

2010

Shekko

Shekko 2024

6.29

The film's events revolve around a group of outlaw friends who engage in criminal and suspicious activities, but it leads them to major crises with dangerous consequences.

2024

The Island

The Island 2007

7.20

Mansour El-Hefny’s wealthy family rule an Upper Egyptian island. Some police officers facilite their arms dealing in exchange for information, and corrupt parliament members use their immunity to par-take in their drug trade.

2007

Awal Ghram

Awal Ghram 1956

1

A quarrel occurs between Sania (the first dancer in the band) and the band director, who decides to cancel the contract and give singer Zainab the chance to star, but the band’s first singer refuses to appear in front of her. Zainab suggests that her beloved singer Salah appear in front of her, and he actually succeeds. Hatreds are born in Sania’s heart, so she throws With her network around Salah, she convinces him that Zainab is in a relationship with the director. The director again seeks the help of Saniya, but Zainab discovers the truth and ends with a surprise.

1956

Al Mawardi Cafe

Al Mawardi Cafe 1981

1

Hassanein Abu Sunna is released from prison after committing a murder. He persuades Ghobasha to rent his furnished apartment to the rich Radwan as the journalist Ahmed documents the changes taking place in the neighborhood in his articles.

1981

Banat Hawaa

Banat Hawaa 1954

8.00

Wahid young painter. He is on his way to participate in his new painting exhibition, shocked by a car and insisting on a drawing by Madiha Yousri, the woman fighting for women's rights and equal to the man instead of the old painting. And here talked a lot of comic paradoxes until the marriage between them.

1954

Monopoly (The Bank of Luck)

Monopoly (The Bank of Luck) 2017

6.42

Fueled by anger after getting fired from his bank job, a lazy banker (Mohamed Saleh) joins forces with his co-worker (Amr) and their weird friend (Ze'ro) by turning to robbery in order to fulfill their dreams. But, when they turn their master scheme to rob the bank into action, things take an unexpected turn. Little did they know that a plan is only as clever as the brains behind it.

2017

Martial Marriage

Martial Marriage 2014

5.50

The film follows a young girl “Yasmin Abdel Aziz” who is searching for a husband, due to her constant loneliness and feelings of negligence by men. After a lot of attempts she meets two men who fall for her at the same time, and she doesn't let go of one of them and decides to keep both to her benefit.

2014

Farah

Farah 2004

5.00

A millionaire residing in England, advised by friends to make a charity campaign for the children of the orphaned world. His first stop in Egypt, his birthplace, to which his son Ezz sends his son, to carry out this campaign, is received by the father's friend who was a partner in his business before leaving for London. Accompanied by his campaign. He visits a shelter and donates a million pounds to him, but this does not appeal to the girl Farah, who received a speech that attracts the attention of the press, stressing that they lack sympathy in the shelter. Boutros announces that the billionaire will host Farah to live with him throughout his stay in Cairo. The secretary, who knows him from a young age, tries to pay attention to him. Farah saves him from a global trap that wants to take his money. Farah can reconcile the secretary with Ezz. Ezz calls his father and tells him that he no longer has British citizenship, and he is proud of his Egyptian nationality.

2004

Playing with Giants

Playing with Giants 1991

7.13

When Hassan Bahlal, a young unemployed man, calls the National Security Agency to report a fire that is to break out in a factory the next day, a new chapter in Hassan's life begins as he tells the officer he has foreseen the incident in a dream.

1991

Sheikh Jackson

Sheikh Jackson 2017

7.00

The sudden death of Michael Jackson sends a former King of Pop devotee — now a young imam — into a tailspin, in this tender and comedic film from Egyptian filmmaker Amr Salama.

2017

The Gate of the Sun

The Gate of the Sun 2004

6.40

Yousry Nasrallah's powerful adaptation of Lebanese writer Elias Khoury's epic novel of fifty years of Palestinian dispossession, exile, and resistance. The film follows the flight of Younes, his wife Nahila, and those around them, from their village in northern Palestine to a refugee camp in Lebanon. Some vow to continue the struggle, most simply struggle to survive. Unsparingly detailing the impact of the nakba (disaster) on Palestinian life and society and the refugees' often-contentious relationship with their reluctant Lebanese hosts, Gate of the Sun spans generations, mixing personal stories with historical events.

2004

The Curve

The Curve 2015

1

Radi, who leads a reclusive life in his own van, finds himself on a road trip with three strangers, which alters his clockwork and very private lifestyle.

2015

The Blind of the Cathedral

The Blind of the Cathedral 2015

1

In front of a cathedral, fate led to Hala and Bachir's meeting. At first sight, they share nothing in common: she is a 15-year-old student, she is Muslim and she sees. Whereas Bachir is 27, he plays the lute, he is Christian and blind. In a country ruled by hatred and conflicts, division and exacerbated sectarianism, and just before the burst of the civil war, two pure souls meet. Hala and Bachir will go through an adventure that will empower their innocent love. But a dark fate awaits them.

2015

The Worthy

The Worthy 2016

4.90

In this dystopian thriller, with civilization a thing of the past, a man puts his family in peril when he reluctantly lets outsiders into his compound.

2016