Forced Marriage

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.

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.

After a five-year hiatus, psychiatrist Yehia returns to work at Abbasiya Hospital. He’s assigned to evaluate a patient who turns out to be his old friend. As events unfold, Yehia uncovers dark secrets that challenge his understanding of reality.

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.

Zuhra has nothing to do but to runaway after her family forced her to marry an old rich man. She goes to Alexandria where she works in a motel and there she meets people with different ideologies and thoughts about life.

Adam is the son of a wealthy Egyptian-American family who is studying at UCLA and returns home for a brief vacation. Upon his arrival he meets beautiful reporter Hanane, with whom he begins an intense love affair, and eventually they marry. Trouble arises when Hanane' s journalistic interests lead her to the corrupt business affairs of Adam's parents, who are interested in building an American tourist compound that would allow Americans further control of Egypt's tourist industry, and make them a whole lot richer.

Three friends form a gang of pirates, “Sea Burglars”, get assigned to a mission against the Mob, after a large cargo of diamonds was heisted. Things turn into a web of rivalries and paybacks, when one one of them decides to do the mission on his own and escape to Morocco.

An adaptation of “Crime and Punishment", a young educated man's descent into madness and paranoia after committing a crime, and finding comfort in the company of kind-hearted but abused poor prostitute in the middle of his turmoil.

The unemployed Reda develops feelings for his neighbor Hanan who runs away and lives with an aristocratic lady for whom she works, leaving Reda to get involved with terrorist groups. Meanwhile, Jaber earns his living by fraud and deceit and eventually dies in an accident.

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.

A teenage girl trying to get over an incident of rape she suffered when she was young

A father loses his carpentry workshop after his son-in-law stops paying taxes regularly. His son Hassan, a bus driver, struggles hard to save his father’s workshop, while the daughters try to replace it with a new project inspired by the “Infitah” era.

Four girlfriends each one suffers from a problem: one is a Kleptomaniac, another is obsessed with fame and the other two are so emotionally deprived that they have started to hate men. The four of them fall in the hands of three young men who are crippled by self-hatred.

A businessman who loves his daughter very much, refuses every man who proposes for her in order not to leave him. But can he refuse a man from a security entity?

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.

Contractor Mahmoud Abdel Majeed is afflicted with cancer, and his children hide the truth about his illness from him. This man has two sons, the eldest, Mukhtar, has a weak personality, while the younger son, Amin, does not covet his father’s money and lives in isolation with his wife, Gigi. She has many ambitions to transfer ownership of the factory to Amin, but he considers her... The reason his gay friend committed suicide.

While in Alexandria, Nawal meets Engineer Salah and falls in love with him. She feels that his feelings are not serious because of his hesitation to propose to her, so she decides to leave for Cairo, not knowing that what is preventing him is his serious illness. Nawal is surprised when he is transferred to the hospital to receive treatment.

Awni's father gets him a job giving music lessons to his manager's daughter Nihad. As Awni forms a band with his friends to perform in nightclubs, their attempt to get time off to work in Alexandria leads Samir to suggest that they let themselves be bitten by a dog to take sick leave.

Hamida dreams of studying at the faculty of commerce and live her life like any ordinary girl, but her narrow minded father wants her to stay at home and wait for her future husband. With the help of her boyfriend Hassan, who is a medical student he arranges for her to disguise herself as a man after lying to her father that his daughter had undergone a procedure and became a male.

The story of a young Palestinian who left his refugee camp to become a resistance fighter in the Palestine Liberation Organization.

Two friends, Hamdi, an actor in one of the Rod El Farag theaters, and Ezzat the merchant, compete to win the heart of their neighbor Badriya. Hamdi marries her and they work together in a political play. The police chase Hamdi, so he seeks refuge with his friend Hussein. He happens to find his wife Badriya in Hussein's apartment, and Hussein tried to rape her. Hamdi thinks she is cheating on him, but he discovers the truth after it is too late.

While Hamada is in Abu Qir, Awad succeeds in hiding a set of valuable diamonds away from the police in Hamada's camera, and Hamada does not discover this, as he is with his two friends, Galal and Salah, spending some time having fun, but the diamonds turn their time into hell, and a gang begins chasing them in order to obtain those diamonds, led by Awad, who pushes Sonia to bring the diamond from the three friends.

Jaber is a professional hitman who decides to repent, but the gang he is affiliated with refuses to let go of him easily.

Laila is a smart woman who managed to make her way among businessmen outside her country. When she returns to her country with the aim of convincing her only daughter, an engineer, to travel with her, the daughter refuses. The businesswoman also discovers that her partners in the suspicious deals are conspiring against her, so she threatens them with the illegal documents in court. After a long struggle, she decides to live with her daughter and liquidate her business relations, but it is too late!

A Jewish Syrian girl sets for departure from home city Damascus, but reverses her decision because her father discloses a secret that was kept for years. The secret being about a Lover who was thought to be dead. The girl reveals the mysteries of the past in search of another side of magical Damascus, hence falling in love with a Christian man who disappears in Lebanon’s civil war. She finds herself facing a difficult choice, but the city itself will keep the door of love and choices wide open to infinite possibilities.

Fahmi Abdul Hadi .. A distinguished student of law school .. His dreams are simple and his actions are ideal and pure .. Fahmi collides with the bitter reality of life when losing his mother because he cannot afford the price of her treatment. At a time, He watches his colleagues around him spend money like water and making fun of his poverty and even refuse to help him to treat his mother. Fahmi decides to abandon the idealism and take revenge of all who failed him.

Set in Syria in the early 1900s. A peasant has his land taken from him by the authorities. He gets imprisoned and beaten by the gendarme, but manages to escape to the mountains where starts a bloody struggle for revolution.

Queen Nazli's daughter disappears at a young age, and the queen dies without seeing her. The heirs take advantage of the disappearance of the daughter to divide the wealth among them, but when the daughter suddenly appears, they try to stop her from having the wealth.

The film is set around 1914 when Lebanon was under the Ottoman Empire rule. The empire enslaved men to work for free. Abdou goes to get Adla the engagement ring but he's arrested with others and are taken to cut lumber. Meanwhile the Ottomans prevent the wheat from arriving to certain villages because they want to defuse the ongoing resistance operations led by Abou Ahmed. Adla travels to where some say Abdou is held prisoner and she meets with Abou Ahmed. She along other villagers start helping the resistance get the wheat to the people. When they accomplish their mission, Abou Ahmed, freed Abdou and others escape because now they're wanted, but on a promise to return and to continue fighting.

As an elderly man on his deathbed looks to give his name to one of his newborn grandsons, he's unable to acknowledge any of them. The three boys grow up with no name in the Syrian mountains, as they struggle to survive in a war-torn country.

The events revolve around a small family consisting of a couple and two children. One day, the wife dies, leaving the husband with two children to raise alone. He decides to marry again so that his wife can help him raise the children, but after that he commits suicide because he declares bankruptcy, and the second wife finds herself facing a great responsibility.

Three Palestinian men strive to escape the hardships of life in a refugee camp. Under the scorching sun, the men enlist the help of an old man, Abu Al-Khaizuran, to smuggle them in an empty water tank across the desert.

A struggling young man abandons country life to work as a truck driver's assistant. His ambition drives him to be a driver himself, and lives a conflict that tears him apart between his love for a girl from his village, and his gratitude to his teacher who hopes to marry him to his daughter. We see the conflict that rages between truck drivers demanding wage increases on the one hand, and the employer on the other. The film depicts the harsh experiences that the hero goes through and learns through them the enormity of the individual battle in life.

Alaa, a radio host who fears commitment, enters relationships that end for trivial reasons until he meets Farida, who seems perfect. He then discovers she is one of the largest arms dealers. When he tries to leave her, she forces him to marry her, dragging him into a series of dangerous situations.

El Maxiky is accustomed to carrying out theft and smuggling operations alone without help. However, he gets embroiled in a major operation that requires outside assistance but eventually discovers that those he chose for help are implicating him in problems that threaten the operation's success.

After being caught one too many times, Amr El Barouqy, a famous jeweler with a weakness for women, is forced to put aside his traditional male pride. When his strong-willed wife Yasmine insists on building a healthier and more balanced life together, the couple turn to relationship counselor Dr Kareem and embark on an unconventional therapy program to save their marriage. However, instead of bringing them closer, each step unleashes a new wave of chaos, turning their attempt to fix their relationship into a series of escalating disasters.

Roshdy is a carefree young man who spends his time at nightclubs with women. When his uncle dies, Roshdy is to receive all his fortune but on one condition: he should marry a good and committed woman.

A young man working in Alexandria marries his beautiful sweetheart, which is desired by a senior official in the Socialist Union uses his influence to get the husband unjustly imprisoned and sentenced to 25 years. And then comes out to avenge those who imprisoned him.

A gang makes so much money by blackmailing married women and businessmen. after the death of one of their victims in a car accident,the police found one lead that may help them to arrest this gang.

A Turkish take on James Bond.

Screenwriter Goes to the hospital for medical examinations, but he heard strange news. This hospital has seven floors, whenever it is moved to the bottom floor, becomes close to death

Adel lives happily with his wife until he meets his ex-girlfriend, who works as a dancer. During her visit to his home, she faints and then he discovers that she has died. Adel is arrested and his wife is shocked, while his friend the police officer tries to find out the real killer.