The Death Ward

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.

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 encounters and relationships that a brothel hotel witnessed, from a well known man in power, ambitious cunning youngster, to chivalrous college professor, despite such corrupt business ,true love found a place in some hearts.

Iman is surprised that her brother Hossam is in a relationship with actress Nahed. His ideal image collapses and she decides to abandon her morals. She invites Sherif to the house in the absence of Hossam,and he discovers that she has no previous experiences so he decides to marry her.

Abbas is a young Muslim man who studies engineering. He is caught between two extremes: his ideas, which see religion as restricting freedoms, and his religious father, who pushes him to practice religious rituals by force. Abbas loves his Christian neighbor Yvonne, but the difference in faith prevents them from marrying. On the other hand, his cousin Laila loves him and is in a constant state of dialogue with him.

A young teacher, Mohamed, rejects a student who happens to be the daughter of Awny, the Minister of Interior. As Mohamed starts working as a journalist and joins the Wafd Party, he learns that Awny has documents that condemn its leader. Mohamed tries to get the incrimating evidence.

Shafiqa is a maid and everyone treats her very harshly, she falls in love with the Mahmoud who loves an actress. She agrees with Adham to give him her soul; to be his king after ten years in exchange for giving her wealth and beauty,

A festival is being held in Babylon, to which archeologists, artists, and media professionals are invited, along with an Egyptian television delegation headed by an archaeologist. This scholar meets an Iraqi girl who bears Iraqi features, and gives her appearance the impression that the archaeologist, the archaeologist, and that his dream has begun to materialize in front of him, and a group of comic situations begins.

While drunk Ahmed agrees with Wahid that he kills his stepfather, in return for Ahmed killing Wahid's wife Salwa in order to have her insurance policy. Wahid carries out the agreement, while Ahmed meets Salwa and confess to her the plan.

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.

A poor man starts working in a casino and gets bedazzled by the rich people he sees. As he takes his family to show them the casino after hours, they get arrested for breaking into the casino.

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.

Kidnapped as a child and raised in the circus, a young lion tamer's tough side emerges when he gets entangled in an underworld murder mystery.

Freed after spending years in prison, an activist's homecoming turns into a dark affair as his disillusion clashes with his family's expectations. Demonstrating Chahine’s eclecticism, this is an elegant melodrama, exuberant musical, layered allegory, and profound portrait of personal and political disillusionment.

Amer shares with Saif in counterfeiting dollars, Amer leaves the money bag in his car. The young Hussein steals the car and is sentenced to three years in prison for failing to prove that he does not own the bag. Amer cedes his apartment to Saif, who demands him for the value of the bag, and writes him a check for the rest of the amount. Hussein is released and tries to convince Amer to confess the truth.

Nader and Nour can't escape their bad luck. Nour, a news correspondent, always ends up stumbling into unlucky situations, and Nader runs into trouble wherever he goes. Suddenly, unexpected events change their lives when they meet.

Batta and Wezza are two siblings living with their aunt Faransa at a local neighborhood as the latter works as a hired mourner. Batta accepts to pursue the same career as her aunt, under one condition: to keep Wezza away from all the mourning and the weeping and let her continue her studies.

Gamal sings at local weddings. His brother Salah, a chemist, tries to convince him to quit drugs and gives him some weed that is made out of harmless substances. When a drug dealer grows impressed by Salah's formula, Salah succumbs to the temptation of money.

Sheikh Hosny is a blind man who lives with his old mother and his frustrated son in the Kit Kat neighborhood. His son Youssef dreams of going to Europe to find work, and has a relationship with a divorced woman named Fatima. Sheikh Hosny refuses to admit his handicap and dreams of riding a motorcycle like every sighted person, he also spends his nights smoking hash with the locals in order to forget his miseries after the loss of his wife and selling his father's house.

Omar, the deaf, mute, is subjected to expulsion and displacement from his home after the death of his father, due to the return of the house to the owner company.

After Samia marries Mahmoud, she finds out that he's cheating on her. She gets divorced and starts a job at a company. Samia begins a new relationship with her manager, Adel. Adel finds out about her past as Mahmoud starts to blackmail her

"Morsi" The Conductor, lives on the rooftop of the house of his girlfriend "Najfa", who owns a convenience store, and her mother "Attiyat" refuses to marry him to her daughter. Morsi Meet a businessman "Mohsen", who sent him with a bag to Alexandria to deliver it to Khawaja Peter and receive another bag from him.

After being fired by the prosecution office, Mostafa becomes a personal injury lawyer and takes advantage of people's pain for profit. But his life turns upside down when his only son falls victim to a car accident.

Lulu tightens her husband Hossam after they married for love, and agreed to behave freely, but he is tired of her excess freedom, even though she is not mistaken, Lolo leaves Alexandria to Cairo, looking for an apartment, can not find it, and in her rounds meet Salameh who knows she She could not find a place to live in, so she suggested that she come to his house to stay in the empty room, disguised as a married woman, telling her and his colleagues in the apartment: Kamal the well-known journalist.

A group of young men who live in a poverty-stricken village aspire to migrate to Italy seeking a better life. In their journey towards their dream life, they are faced with the treacherous waves of the Mediterranean Sea while boarding an old, worn-out boat and carrying no legal documents.

Salma escapes from a brothel which is run by Shafiq after she was tricked and promised to get married. But his men chase and follow her.

Ahmed opens a law office in one of the local neighborhoods, he gets involved with the wealthy neighbor, Awatif, who frames him in an embezzlement case after she knows that he got engaged. He gets suspended from practicing law and works in a tannery owned by Awatif.

Teacher Abu Al-Atawf agrees with teacher Atta on the marriage of his son Ibrahim and her daughter Samsim. Abdul Basir, Ibrahim's uncle, goes to bless the bride, and get to knows Attata, who resorted to the lawyer with whom she worked as a writer for twenty years to prove the lineage of her daughter from Lotfy, a wealthy who married her customally and refused to recognize his father to Samsim, so she had to register her in the name of her deceased husband.

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.

After being released from prison following a case in which he defended his wife, Hawnem, Makarem takes a job as a driver for the wealthy Ismat. Meanwhile, Ismat’s wife gives birth to quintuplets, while Makarem and Hawnem struggle with infertility. As the events unfold, their lives become increasingly complicated.

Mahmoud lives in Upper Egypt, and he's pursued for a crime he didn't commit. He flees to Alexandria with his only son, Ahmed, and works as a porter at Haji Saleh. Mahmoud emigrates to America, and leaves his son with Haji Saleh, who gives all his wealth to Ahmed.

Ref'at is a judge who is ruling on an important case that witnesses a lot of security interference. Rafiq Al-Henawy has him killed and stages it as a suicide before the ruling. Twenty years later, his daughter returns to take revenge on Rafiq, who has become a businessman.

The rural young man Jaber quits his job and travels to Cairo to participate in a short-story competition. There, he meets Abdel Hamid, the manager of an import company who uses it as a front for dealing in heroin.

The events revolve around a man who is killed on his wedding day, then is held accountable in the afterlife, meets some people, and tells us how people can live their lives in this world and know that good deeds are what lasts forever.

The events of the story revolve around (Al-Sharnoubi), the stingy man whose brother dies and leaves five orphans after him in order to take care of them and take care of them and raise them.

A man unexpectedly appears in the life of a family, claiming his right to his father’s inheritance as the long-lost twin son, while everyone believes he is a fraud since they thought he was dead. His arrival exposes hidden greed and conflicts within the family over money.

Aziz is waiting for his uncle to die in order to inherit all his wealth.When he dies,he finds an unpleasant surprise

Directed by: Jalal Al Sharqawi (Director)

A TV presenter discusses several issues concerning the Arab region and Arab identity through the representation of a Kuwaiti student who travels to Egypt to resume his studies and crosses paths with an Egyptian girl whose parents oppose their marriage.

Fardous is in prison for stealing a watch. She shares a cell with Samia, who works in a show band and is wrongly arrested in a brothel and Mona who accidentally killed a child with her car. When Fardous comes out, she works in Asfour's poultry farm, but leaves it when he and his son compete to marry her.

Sherif wants to marry Amani, but her father Gad Al-Haq Metwally Owais requires that her sister Tahani to marry first because she is older. Amani agrees with Sharif to deny and act as someone coming to her sister's speech. Can they complete their marriage, will the plan succeed?

A social worker in a mixed school adopts modern methods of education and is loved by students, but she faces problems and conspiracies at the instigation of the conservative vice-principal, especially since the principal of the school admires the social worker.