Beneath a Mother's Feet

Beneath a Mother's Feet 2023

1

A young mother in Morocco, trapped in a mundane existence, confronts her dreams and fears, leading to the agonising decision to forsake all she knows, even her children.

2023

Into reverse

Into reverse 2017

1

It’s a typical morning in Cairo, and a clash erupts on a one-way street in a crowded neighbourhood. An angry face-to-face confrontation between two car drivers erupts, an apoplectic male driver screams at a frightened determined female driver. Who will win this battle of wills?

2017

Fly Out

Fly Out 2009

7.26

Baheeg is a shy veterinarian who secretly loves Laila, the owner of a sick puppy in his clinic. On his birthday, Baheeg finds a genie who grants him many wishes in order to graduate from genie school. Baheeg tries through his wishes to attract Laila's attention by becoming many different characters in hopes that she will fall for love him.

2009

The Spy Hikmat Fahmi

The Spy Hikmat Fahmi 1994

6.00

The story of the famous dancer Hikmat Fahmy, who was spying on the British army for the German forces during the Second World War, convinced that it contributes to rid Egypt of the British occupation.

1994

The Sun Will Never Set

The Sun Will Never Set 1961

7.50

An aristocratic family is torn down after the death of its patriarch. He leaves alone his widow wife and five of his daughters and sons. His eldest son, Ahmed (Shukry Sarhan), takes the role of the man in the house and helps his mother take care of his brother and sisters. Mamdouh (Ahmed Ramzy), his brother, is a self-centered man who refuses to follow his brother’s step and decides to make his own decisions in his life.

1961

The Curse

The Curse 1984

7.00

Journalist Hamdi enters the mental hospital, claiming that he is mentally disturbed to investigate a journalistic precedent by discovering the secret of the killing of a patient, who shows some changes as a result of his integration, but he reaches the killer.

1984

This Is Home: A Refugee Story

This Is Home: A Refugee Story 2018

6.30

The lives of four Syrian families, resettled in Baltimore and under a deadline to become self-sufficient in eight months.

2018

The Thugs of El-Husseiniya

The Thugs of El-Husseiniya 1954

1

A son succeeds his father as a ruffian in the Al-Husayniyah area. As conflict arises between the young man and the current thug, who competes with him over the same girl, the thug plots to put the young man in prison for several years.

1954

My Love... Always

My Love... Always 1980

5.70

Farida yields to the pressure of her father and marries the businessman Osama despite her love for Dr. Ibrahim. She lives with him in Paris a miserable life. Ibrahim succeeds in his work and becomes a famous doctor, while Farida gets divorced and returns to Egypt but a great tragedy awaits her.

1980

The Asphalt Kings

The Asphalt Kings 1996

5.00

A raucous and amazingly irreverent look at contemporary Cairo, THE ASPHALT KING centers on Sayed, a swaggering cabdriver and (to his mind) born womanizer. Embroiled in a torrid affair with a buxom neighbor, Sayed pays his best friend Ringo to keep the neighbor's barber husband busy -- but the husband, as well as Ringo, Sayed's mother, father, sister and grandfather, have their own amorous intrigues brewing. Director Oussama Fawzi has been hailed as the brightest young director to have recently emerged in Egyptian cinema.

1996

Welcome to Love

Welcome to Love 1968

1

Featuring a tour-de-force performance by sour-faced Abd us-Salim in-Nabulsy as the puffed-up Professor Hamdi, 'the greatest of all scientists, a modern-day Edison, and the overlooked inventor of nasal batteries and youth elixir', whose latest scheme involves projecting the mind beyond the body.

1968

Lakhmet Ras

Lakhmet Ras 2006

6.10

Saber dreams of joining his son Yusuf at the police academy, but the police college did not accept Yusuf for his extra charm. Saberifi is a big problem because he borrowed money from his family. Yusuf pretends to be in college and wears a police uniform and travels to his mother. In his bus, Containing a dead head, and the gang kidnapped Yusuf's fiancée to retrieve the bag.

2006

Into Nothingness

Into Nothingness 2021

8.00

Sélima, 25 years old, barmaid. Nothing special, except for her extreme sensitivity and empathy. It is even said that she is able to absorb people's pain. Relieving people is cool, but at what price ?

2021

AL-Bari'i Wi Al-Mashnaqah

AL-Bari'i Wi Al-Mashnaqah 1986

1

Sayed was the victim of a mentally ill patient named Jalal who committed a murder and confessed to it to his psychiatrist, but Sayed was accused of murder and the psychiatrist tried to convince Jalal to confess to his crime, but he fled after the doctor failed to convince him. The doctor tries to prove Sayed's innocence in a way that does not violate the principles of the profession.

1986

Mottarada Gharameya

Mottarada Gharameya 1968

7.00

Based on Marc Camoletti's play "Boeing Boeing", the story follows the womanizing exploits of Mounir (Fouad El Mohandes), an air traffic controller juggling five different air-hostess girlfriends from all over the world. His fiancée Mona (Shouweikar), an Egyptian air-hostess, threatens to dump him if he doesn't quit his playboy lifestyle. Mounir thus decides to seek help from a prominent - albeit sexually frustrated - psychiatrist (Abdel Moneim Madbouly).

1968

The Lover

The Lover 2012

10.00

The autobiography of a film director who grows up in a small town then leaves for the city to finish his studies. When he became famous, he decided to make a film about his upbringing in the village based on his childhood memories.

2012

Three-Quarters Decent

Three-Quarters Decent 2010

4.20

This production is a light hearted comedy. The protagonist is an esteemed cartoonist that works at a news firm. The protagonist undergoes a difficult situation and emerges partly wounded. Following this experience he insists on going back to work but something about him has changed – he lets go of some of his upstanding principles to become “respectable less one quarter”

2010

The Rooftops

The Rooftops 2013

4.20

A sprawling, masterful depiction of a day in the life of Algiers by arguably Algeria’s greatest living filmmaker, Merzak Allouache.

2013