All That Love

Eleven directors from eleven countries each contribute an eleven-minute short reflecting on the events of 11 September 2001: A village teacher in Iran tries to explain to her young students what's happened; city kids in Burkina Faso think they've spotted Osama bin Laden; a deaf Frenchwoman in Manhattan writes a Dear John letter to a man who left that morning for work at the World Trade Center; a Chilean remembers Allende; events recall other deaths; a mother endures more than her son's death. Tones vary, as do the locales. Most concern coming to terms with the events of the day, but at least one confronts the viewer with tragedy and death.

Said and Nabil are friends. Said can't have children, and Dr. Nabil decides to help him by transplanting part of the brain of poor man Abdul Qawi to him, who suffers from severe fatigue after the operation, while Said is unable to have children despite the success of the operation.

A girl (Suheir Ramzi) tells her friends that she lives in an upscale neighborhood and her father is a high rank in the government while she lives a poor life. She comes up with a rumor that a famous tennis player had fallen in love with her, and the tennis player (Nour Al-Sharif) finds out and plays along.

Al-Zamar Hassan is on the run after he was an Engineering student and presented a play with the acting team in the Faculty that the authorities didn't like. He moves from village to village in Upper Egypt, in search of safety. He settles in the village of Araba becoming a vendor in a grocery store.

A child who loves the cinema struggles with a fanatic dad who finds everything (including cinema) a sin, and a mother who is sexually repressed.

In the 12th century's Andalusia lives Ibn Rushd a prominent Islamic philosopher with his wife Zeinab and daughter Salma. The principality is ruled by Khalifa ElMansour who has two sons, ElNasser, an intellectual that likes Ibn Rush and is in love with his daughter Salma. The younger son Abdallah is more into dancing and poetry, spending most of his times with the gypsy family and getting the daughter pregnant. The Khalifa is depending on the extremists to build his army granting them more power which they use to combat artists and philosophers. The extremists succeed in recruiting Abd Allah and train him to kill his father. Events go on where Marawan, the gypsy singer, is killed and Ibn Rushd's books are burnt. Adapted from the real life of Ibn Rushd AlMasir is Chahine's statement against extremism.

The lives of residents in an old Cairo building, "The Yacoubian Building," are affected by issues like corruption, extremism, class disparity, and sexuality. Through diverse characters, the film offers a critical examination of Egyptian society.

In Roman-dominated Egypt, the corrupt administration of a governor named Petronius has sparked a revolt headed by El Kabir, a young man who learns that he's actually the son of Cleopatra and Julius Caesar. When Petronius' daughter, Livia, newly-arrived from Rome, falls into his hands, El Kabir uses this opportunity to win her over to his side before releasing her to her father.

Shokry, a security officer in a village in Upper Egypt, seeks to protect infidelity from stalking. He asks to marry Amal, who is working with her father Abdel Fattah at the Kafr al-Kufr school. An unknown man attacks her in the evening and does not know his identity. There is doubt about Jasser and Abu Atwa the offender and his brother Abdul Rahman, and in the House of the Mayor recognizes Abdul Rahman as the actor, accompanied him to the center thanks to the center, although the way he is risky, open fire on their car and kill Abdul Rahman, it turns out that Abu Atwa is the killer and surrenders himself to the police His brother deserves death.

Salah works as an engineer who specializes in building permits. He's known for his integrity and takes care of his sick mother. One day a charge is fabricated for him, and he's unjustly imprisoned. After serving his sentence, Salah goes after those who imprisoned him to take revenge on them.

Batta, Sakina, and Nawal .. Three friendly girls, neighbors from one lane, with similar difficult social conditions and also the dream of marriage before spinsterhood.

Set in 1933, the mayor informs the peasants that the share of irrigation of their land will be split equally between them and feudal lord Mahmoud Bey. The peasants send Mohamed Effendi to submit a petition to the government. Mahmoud Bey then proposes a project that would require taking part of the peasants' lands.

After we last see him in "Alexandria, Why?" Egyptian filmmaker Yehia Mourad is in his thirties, and successful in his work, he has grown distant from his wife and children and suffers a symbolic blockage of the heart while shooting the final scenes of his latest film. After being flown to England for evaluation, it's determined that Yehia must undergo emergency surgery. Fact and fiction blend seamlessly—with healthy doses of cleverly absurdist fantasy—as the film explores the various personalities and forces that have made Yehia (and Youssef Chahine) the man he has become.

In the 1960s, the lives of three college classmates, Ismail, Zainab, and Helmy, take a dark turn when the three of them are arrested and tortured as part of the repressive and violent practices that were employed by the General Intelligence Directorate back then.

When Kadry El Meniawy becomes the minister of Youth and sports, the attractive woman Anita from Denmark comes to Egypt for cultural exchange between the two countries. As she stays at the minister's villa, his sons try to get close to her while he also falls for her.

Photographer Sayed Gharib leaves his hometown and moves Cairo to be close to the Faculty of Medicine that his daughter Tahani attends. Tahani clashes with the aristocratic society around her as love blossoms between her and the son of a famous businessman

Officer Magdy investigates the suicide of a groom on his wedding night. He knows that the groom was impotent. Later he realizes that impotence is becoming an epidemic that spreads among all men. However, no one wants to declare that out of shame.

The story revolves around 200 pounds that get passed on from one person to another from different social classes and residential places.

Based on Victor Hugo's novel, a poor man is sent to prison after stealing a loaf of bread. He escapes and becomes rich, but this does not protect him from people's disdain as they know where he came from.

Lula's father Abdel Hamid loses his wallet. Hussain finds it, and returns it to Abdel Hamid . Impressed by his honesty, Abdel Hamid gives him a job. Lola begins to woo him to forget her life with Aziz, and asks him to work for her.

After completing his studies in Europe, Wahid returns again to his hometown, when his father asks him to go to Cairo so that he can take his job in one of the companies. There he meets the beautiful Nadia, who is in love with an old man in a piano sales and repair shop and thinks that the old man is her father, and tries to To pursue her and win her heart without knowing the truth of the matter.

Murtada al-Salamuni's father's mansion gets seized and his wife leaves him, forcing him to reside in his family's country house. He tries to find work at Abdullah Bahnas, but he rejects him. Murtada decides to take revenge by cooperating with three thieves. led by Mahrous to steal important papers from by Abdullah to blackmail him.

Amid the poverty, death, and suffering caused by World War II, 18-year-old Yehia retreats into a private world of fantasy and longing. Obsessed with Hollywood, he dreams of studying filmmaking in America but struggles to pursue his dream, given the constraints of his life in the middle class and the horrors of war.

When her stepfather tries to rape her, Amal kills him and flees. She finds refuge in the house of the fine artist Ahmed Khaled who falls for her, but his protégé, the sculptor Sherif, also falls for her and competes with Ahmed to win her favor.

Dr. Rabab is the wife of businessman Abdul Rahim, their routine life is disturbed by the nosy Bahiga, Abdul Rahim's sister, who interferes in everything. When Rabab becomes pregnant after several years of infertility,Bahiga drives her brother to doubt if he's the father.

Spoiled rich girl Nadia gets jealous after finding out her father's plan to remarry. She tries to break them apart, spreading lies about her new mother-in-law and getting involved with a man twice her age.

The relationship between a father and his four children is strained when he keeps spending his money on his pleasures. His son, Tawfik, revolts against his father after he learns of his relationship with the prostitute Lula, until he falls for her.

A young girl marries the author whom she admires, but later discovers that he's not who he appears to be. She runs away and meets a handsome young man and they decide to get married.

Based on play Othello of William Shakespear. Hafez try to convice his friend that his wife has been unfaithful.

After the US invasion of Iraq, an Egyptian headmaster sponsors a young inventor to create a deterring weapon out of fear his country will be next.

The story of the Arab knight Muhammad Bin Qasim Al-Thaqafi who rescued many women and children from pirates in the Indian Ocean. He entered a fierce war against King Dahr who was sharing the spoils with the pirates, with the help of his friend Ziad and his mentor Abu Al-Asud.

The film revolves in the context of romantic comedy and action through the character of a police officer under covered as student in a university and befriends key students to uncover a drug distribution network within the university.

Abu al-Wafa soldier of the border weapon lives with his old father Darwish, who was also guarding the border and his wife Saadi, who does not have a child, yet he thinks that he is sterile, so as not to embarrass her, but Tairh ignorance! She is frustrated when she finds out the truth and Salem, the drug dealer, is being bribed to Abu Al-Wafa for allowing a drug shipment into the country

Ramez Abdel Badie, a journalist passionate about culture, neglects his family because of his work, while his colleague Ahmed chooses controversial topics that bring him trouble. The two soon find themselves facing unexpected challenges that change the course of their lives.

Some unemployed addicts kidnap the girl Safaa and take her to a remote place. After they gang-rape her, her fiancé Mokhtar manages to bring her home and her father reports the crime to the police.

Adham returns to Egypt to be surprised that his sister, Fawzia, entered prison. She confesses to him that his friend Al-Margushi has provided her with a job in a company, and when the manager summoned her to his home on a work assignment, the police raided his house that he ran for prostitution.

Two friends Marzouk and Barakat, work with street vendor Batta on her cart in the melon trade. Al-Gayiar who works in the trade of stolen cars admires them, they work with him till they become his competitors. He decides to get rid of them after they've become a treat.

Amal is forced to marry drug dealer Khaled al-Basiouni in a customary marriage because she needs money. Khaled refuses to legally marry her after discovering her pregnancy. Amal gets to know the great lawyer Kamal, and he decides to help her

Three sexually-frustrated friends are determined to watch a porno video but have no private place, no VCR, and no TV, so they go on a misadventure in which their group constantly increases, taking on more and more sexually-frustrated people and falling into one mishap after another, all because of the restrictions of society.

Three stories written by Ihsan Abdul Quddus about three thieves, their circumstances differed, and their motives for theft differed.The first steals from a traitorous wife believing that this is his right, and the second steals a public bus in order to quickly reach his sick wife, the third steals his old aunt to be able to get married.

Ali joins the Faculty of Medicine at the request of his father. He succeeds in treating his patients with psychotherapy which makes the hospital manager jealous, at the same time he becomes a famous star thanks to a cabaret owner, and his success also raises the jealousy of the new singer (Dunya).