List of Movies from Egypt

What does it mean to risk your life for your ideals? How far will five revolutionaries go in defending their beliefs in the fight for their nation?

Mahmoud was one of the horsemen coerced by lowly henchmen for Mubarak's regime into carrying out attacks on protesters in Tahrir Square on February 2, 2011. He has since lost his job. Humiliated and ostracized, he lives near th...

One day Namir Abdel Messeeh, a filmmaker of Egyptian origin, watches a videotape of the Virgin Mary’s apparition in Egypt with his mother. Like millions of other Copts, she sees the Virgin on the screen while he sees nothing. Sk...

Set against the backdrop of the whirlwind protests of Cairo’s Tahrir Square that began on January 25th, 2011, this film takes us on a compellingly raw, starkly moving journey into the lives of activist Amr, journalist Farah, and...

A 30 years old Egyptian goes back to Egypt after living in America for 20 years, where he has a hard time coping with the difference, Specially after he loses his identity and all his money and becomes stuck in Egypt.

A powerful account of life in contemporary Cairo, this raw drama about a pair of star-crossed lovers shines a powerful spotlight upon the social and cultural taboos that riddle the city's diverse population. Heralding a bold new s...

Youssef (40 years old) gets out of 5 years solitary imprisonment. It seems that they let him out just to hand in the documents that he kept hiding for a long time. In Alexandria, he meets Ibrahim and Fady, with whom he shared the ...

Three days in a man's life, three crucial days in his long existence. Day one. Autumn 1948, Port Said. It is Hassan's first day at work but a telegram arrives and he has to set sail across the Atlantic. On the ship he meets the be...