Nothing Matters

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 sixth-century Mecca, Prophet Muhammad receives his first revelation from God as a messenger. Three years later, he's not alone in his quest and publicly declares his prophecy. Muhammad is fought by Abu Sufian and his wife Hind, rulers of Mecca. Muhammad's followers are hunted and tortured but he continues his calling.

Ahmed Awad Najjar Isami, who ended up with a grand workshop owner in which dozens of workers work, he meets with Tuha, a girl he saw growing up in his neighborhood and attached to it, and he dreamed of it, but she does not exchange love, and then he loses his wealth, as a fire breaks out in the workshop and he comes over it, and then Ahmed meets Sana in the hospital to which Ahmed is taken after he was injured in the fire, and at the same time Ahmed loves tohave violently, and with the same violence Nana protects him, and Sana loves him.

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.

Grain trader Hamdi lives with his two sons Mahmoud and Hussein and his niece Wafaa. He treats Hussein differently because his mother had a disgraceful past. Hussein finds out that his mother is the dancer Fawzia Rushdie, he goes to meet her and she denies him at first.

Salwa is a flight attendant who marries the pilot, Walid. When she finds out the truth about his marriage to his cousin Ragia and that he has a child with her, she asks for a divorce, but he refuses. After a plane crash, Walid is presumed dead and Salwa remarries.

In the depths of loneliness and despair, beautiful Aida visits her "tailor," Victoria, a woman who runs a sensual house where erotic fantasies are fulfilled. After satisfying her desires in the arms of one of Victoria's young men, Aida has a haunting nightmare where she envisions herself as a witch who, during a full moon, has the power to destroy her lovers' sensitivity.

Abul Hassan is a clerk in the Ministry of Justice who lives with his three sons: Dr. He praises a prestigious center in an international organization abroad. Walaa works in a hotel, but the children are shocked once that their father accused of stealing the file of one of the important issues. He returns to stand beside his innocent father and is surprised that his family has been decomposed. Loyalty has turned into a girl who hugs herself and Ala heroin, trying to identify the reasons that led the family to do so and help his cousin, researcher Siham, whom he had a relationship with love. The doctor begins to recognize the causes of the dissolution of his family one by one, prove the innocence of the father, "Abul Hassan" and commit suicide daughter loyalty and recognizes the son Alaa stealing the file and use heroin to imprisonment.

"Ali ileum" open safes talented thief, but even he was talent he was arrested and sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of security guard, and there recognize the Colonel, "Shawki", and the way the film mafia is recruiting

Walid, the son of an important businessman, kills his mother's lover. When his mother turns him in, his father tries to use his influence to get him out of trouble, but a young police officer stands in his way.

Galal sends men from the mental hospital to Port Said to arrest his sister Fatma, using his political position, accusing her of insanity. Fatma escapes to the roof of the house and threatens to throw herself if someone approaches her, telling her story to the crowds around her.

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.

A wife enters into a love affair after her husband neglects her.

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.

Abdullah, a car driver, is accused in the murder of the thug Magdy and a friend of the Ghanaian Nawal. This criminal escapes after he tried to defend himself, but the events follow and he is also accused of killing the Ghanaian Nawal, he lands in one of the villas where Murad and his wife live with their young son, and Abdullah takes from the house residents Hostages so he can escape

Magdi examines the body of a woman and tells her that her death is the result of a nuclear radiation. The search leads him to the company of businessman Said, where the dead man was working

Sergeant Radwan works in a reformatory for the youth and treats them harshly, until the social worker Karima arrives and treats everyone gently, which angers Radwan, especially as three prisoners, Samir, Abdel Fadil, and Nabil, plan to escape.

A young architect struggles to convince a superstitious community, in thrall to antiquity traffickers, to build houses instead of living in precarious mountain caves.

Rebel Ibrahim Hamdy assassinates a pro-colonial Prime Minister but is arrested and hides with a fellow university student, who initially refuses but eventually accepts him. Abdul Hamid Khatib meets Samia and her cousin, and Ibrahim uses the situation to hasten Samia’s marriage, which she rejects. Nawal, the youngest daughter, becomes the liaison between Ibrahim and his colleagues, helping him escape. Abdul Hamid tries to inform the political police of Ibrahim’s location, but Samia stops him. The head of the political police suspects them and punishes them to find Ibrahim. Ibrahim refuses to leave the country, returning to fight colonialism and participating in an operation.

A village girl, Hanaa, gets fascinated by the colorful world of the cinema as a director arrives in the village to film his movie. As Hanaa meets Tamatem, the dressmaker of actress Sally, she gets a job as Sally's maid and crosses paths with Mourad who pushes her to work at cabarets.

Naim, who decides to take revenge on Narges' widow, Wasfi, who caused him to be imprisoned, so he makes an agreement with Dalal in order to plan to seize Narcissus’s money. Her money to him, but he discovers it's not easy at all.

Hasan Youssef plays Mohsen, a doctor who is in love with a nurse named Mona (Warda Al-Jazaria). They hope to marry soon, however Mohsen's father refuses to allow the marriage: he has promised his son to the daughter of a wealthy benefactor, to settle a long standing debt. In order to convince the father to allow their marriage, Mohsen asks Mona to work as his father's private nurse and work to win him over.

Sou'ad is a beautiful student, who lives with a strict family. When they find out that she loves one of the employees, they prevent her from going to school. A married couple sympathizes with Sou'ad and treats her like a daughter. Sou'ad gets closer to the husband and tries to get his attention.

Three college girls come from the countryside to pursue different dreams, but they go on different paths and encounter many problems and challenges that irk them.

Fatma had a crush on Dr. Hosny, a womanizer dentist she met, so she decided to convince him to hire her as his nurse. On the other side, Hosny is in the middle of a love story with Dalia, a Flower Shop owner who hates liars more than anything else.

Fatima grows jealous because her husband Hassan is a lawyer whose work conditions compel him to deal with many women, including the dancer Souad, whose relationship with Hassan makes matters worse between him and his wife.

Mahgoub is a villager who moves to Cairo in search of a better life. When he enlists friend Salem's help to find him a job, Salem not only gets him a job at the ministry where he works but he finds him a bride as well. But the bride is the mistress of Qasem Bek, who will be visiting her once a week.

The story revolves around a family of several men and their wives who were living a happy happy life, until the doorbell rang one night to find a baby left behind behind the door and accompanied by a letter indicating that the child's father is from this family without identification, which raised the suspicions of the wives in their husbands.

After Dr. Maged successfully treats Yasmine, she starts to fall for him. When his fiancée Maysa finds out, she tells Yasmine that she and Maged are engaged which causes Yasmine to relapse.

(Ahmed Fathi) is a screenwriter assisted by his wife (Hala). He wants her to quit her job and devote herself to helping him with his screenwriting work, but she refuses. His assistant takes advantage of the situation to try to drag him into a relationship and extort his money for her lover. His wife thinks that there is already a relationship between him and his assistant, and she is booked to travel on a train. The train has an accident and everyone thinks that she is dead.

A girl and her boyfriend are swindlers who have successfully carried out previous frauds. When they find out that their neighbor has an amount of money that he is safekeeping for a friend, they devise a plan to swindle him.

When a pretty girl suffers from a psychological crisis, her mother takes her to a psychiatrist. As the doctor discovers that the girl's condition is the result of her stepfather's attempts to rape her, she decides to take revenge on him and kill him for what he did to her.

Mansour entrusts Hossam, the son of one of his friends, to watch his daughter, Noura, while on a trip to Ismailia. They fall in love with each other, but she finds out that he was hired to follow her. She agrees to get engaged to an unemployed man to get back at Hossam.

A person is wrongfully accused of murder and sentenced to death. The detective and the accused's fiancée continue their investigation until they are able to identify the real killer.

The events revolve around Hosni, who suffers from a complexity towards women since childhood, which made him not trust any woman, he travels to Cairo to study, where he gets to know his neighbor Zainab, and begins to love her

Three prisoners escape from prison trying each of them to implement a random idea wandering around in his mind, the first tries to steal a smuggling gang, the second tries to retrieve the girlfriend for whom he entered the prison, and the third returns to retrieve what he had hid under a tree.

Huda is targeted in an assassination attempt and indirectly discovers that one of the cameramen on her program is connected to the incident—and that he is a serial killer whose mental illness has taken control of him, stemming from his mother, who had previously disfigured his father’s face.

Several models of Egyptian citizens are introduced during the British occupation, from Shukry the army officer who refuses to shoot at student demonstrations, Saad who engages in political activity against the British occupation, to Abdel Azis who loves Raja, the dancer.

The film revolves around a romantic comedy about Sherif, who has many female relationships, and his cousin Mohsen, who comes from the countryside and always gets into trouble because of his many romantic adventures, while in the end he falls in love with Nora, the simple girl.

When the prison car breaks down, the prison guard is forced to take the three prisoners to the nearest house to look for help, and the prisoners get into a lot of comedic situations.