Hawk's Eyes

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.

Mila and Kia are a pair of teenage best friends and aspiring professional footballers. When the girls get a new demanding football coach, they slowly start to drift apart.

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.

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.

Dalal works as the manager of singer Afaf, who owns a nightclub. However, Afaf is constantly harassed by Aziz, a depraved thug who stalks her. Aziz breaks into Afaf’s apartment to steal her jewelry, but when he discovers that her sister is there, he is forced to kill her and flee. The events continue to unfold from there.

Three marginal figures who live on the roof overlooking an open-air cinema, strive to find work that would help them to live. Desperate as they are, they decide to rob a small bank branch imitating a foreign film that they watched at the open-air cinema.

When a psychiatric patient escapes from the hospital and tries to kill himself, his doctor manages to get him to reconsider and takes him back. The patient recounts how his belief in sorcery and charlatanism became an obsession that ruined his life, until he discovered that it was all a lie.

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.

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.

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.

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.

In a working-class neighborhood, Salma, the daughter of Constable Gaber, falls in love with Antar, a soldier. But this does not please Baraka, the butcher and neighborhood tough, who tries to drive them apart. Although he is already married to two women, Baraka wants to marry Salma and competes with Antar through unscrupulous means.

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.

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.

Hassan Hudhud is a poor boxer who dreams of championships and glory. He accidentally takes part in a match at the mansion of a wealthy man who admires him. He soon gets rich and moves into the mansion.

Lutfi works abroad and leaves his son Hossam in the care of his mother and her husband Emad and be a great fortune, Hossam commits with bad friends the crime of theft and injury of a woman in his car, they escape but fall down the license plate of his car, while chasing police officers him seriously injured by gunshot, arrives Lutfi and plans to smuggle His son is out.

The film tells of dangerous life-threatening documents that are handed over to the hero from his boss at work to hand over to the big man without knowing their seriousness, but the old man thinks badly about the manager, so he kills him and accuses the hero of it.

On New Year's Eve, a taxi driver tries to raise money necessary for his mother-in-law surgery who takes care of his only mentally handicapped son. On the same night, a repentant prostitute tries to make money to fix her house . When they meet, they witness a night full of unforgettable events.

When Samir graduates from university, and is confronted with the reality that his job will not provide him with enough income, he decides to work in other jobs. While his fiancée struggles all the time until a producer asks her to work with him in advertisements.

Prisoner Adham makes a deal with fellow inmate Saad, a businessman who has been accused of stealing 700 million Egyptian Pounds, to work for him as his wife Aisha’s bodyguard. Aisha falls in love Adham. Kathem, Saad’s friend figures this out, and informs him. Saad discovers his wife’s betrayal and fabricates an accusation of Adham. They attempt to escape prison with the money they’ve stolen, except that Adham is thwarted by an obstacle along the way.

Nahed marries a rich old man who she used to work for as a nurse, but she falls in love with a prisoner. She waits for him to get out of prison and agrees with him to kill her husband.

In an exciting, suspenseful drama, the events revolve around a young man who is successful in his work, but he has some ambitions that are never fulfilled, in addition to his strong relationship with his father who always encourages him, and mysterious phone calls haunt him. When he tries to achieve his ambition and falls in love with a girl, he has a very violent surprise that almost destroys his entire psychological being.

Azmi, a legal adviser refuses to sign the budget of the celebration of a project as it's twice what was spent on the project itself. He gets fired from his work, and decides to write a comprehensive report of all the daily atrocities in the hope of presenting it to higher authorities.

Colonel Hazem, the governor of woman's prison, meets the rich and beautiful Rawia, who lives next door. Their relation grows stronger and she tells him she is miserable with her husband Darwish. The two get arrested for the possession of drugs, and Rawia is sent to the prison where Hazem works.

Hamdy lives with his wife Nadia and her young sister Samiha. He loves his wife’s sister and decide to get rid of his wife by killing her.

The events of the play revolve around (Hia) Sabreen, who works as a seamstress in Mansoura, and for the mistreatment of the owner of the store, she decides to go to Cairo to work at the branch of sewing and she asks for her address in one of the shoe stores. There, she identifies with (Tayfour) Mamdouh Wafi, who works in the shop. It is recognized by the owner of the store (Hakkai) Mahmoud Al-Qalawi, and there are paradoxes that go out from him to be hit by a motorcycle in the field in front of the shop. Who trades in the currency. She discovers that she has stolen her money - so she can sympathize with her, and she will live with her in her apartment, and at the same time work in the shoe store. And Tayfour loves her.

Jamil works for the jeweler Azzouz and he loves Souad. Azzouz asks Jamil to take a jewelry bag to a client. But when a dispute happens between the client and the fiancé, Jamil is forced to stay in the hotel where Souad works to keep the jewelry in the safe deposit box in the hotel.

The story revolves around three young men who work as boys for the mechanic, Usta Farag. There is Abbas, who loves Batta and intends to marry her, and Hassouna competes with him over her. Ali, who loves Usta Farag's daughter, Ezza. Hamada, who befriends an addicted girl and makes her hunt men. Abbas tries to collect some money so that he can marry his lover, Batta. He tries to sell a car without Usta Farag knowing, who throws him out of the workshop. He resorts to a gang that steals and dismantles cars. Ali approaches Usta Farag about marrying his daughter, but he throws him out of his workshop.

Toha and her mother work to transport the cargos in carriages on behalf of the teacher Shehata, who exploits them and they cannot stand in front of him, until Toha gets to know Shawqi, the head of the station and responsible for the supply loads that are transported on trains, to help her get rid of the teacher Shehata, and fall in love with her and marry her, so that Shehata decides to take revenge.

Ahmed is an engineer, living with his wife Nabila, their son and sister in a cheap hotel after their house is taken down. After living in the hotel becomes a financial burden , the family members decide to live in the yard of a grave, while suffering from many problems and harassment.

After becoming wealthy from her first husband, Ghazal the vamp get married secretly with another 4 men in row. But the last one hides his own project to execute with Ghazal.

A charismatic con artist drawn into a world of danger, deception, and unexpected romance. As he navigates high-stakes escapades and faces deeply personal trials, his journey takes an unforeseen turn — one that may lead him toward redemption and unlikely heroism.

Ahmed's father died when he was in the final year of medical school, and the pregnancy became heavy for him, so he had to depend to his sister and mother, so he had to work in the morning as a doctor in a hospital and in the afternoon a contracting worker, his girlfriend Hanaa emigrated him to marry a rich man, so he was injured with a psychological complex that turned him into avenger of all Eve's daughters.