The Disappearance of Jaafar Al-Masri

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.

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.

Set in 1987 against the backdrop of a hunger strike by the Egyptian film industry, Chahine himself steps in to play Yehia, the famed Egyptian director whose life is chronicled in "Alexandria, Why?" and "An Egyptian Story". Obsessed with Amr, the handsome actor he discovered and cast as his alter-ego in parts one and two of The Alexandria Trilogy, Yehia pressures Amr to star in various film projects that change even as Yehia's perception of the young actor begins to change. He first casts Amr as Hamlet, which the actor deems too demanding for his talents, then as the lead in a musical biopic of demigod Alexander the Great, who founded the city of Alexandria in 332 B.C.

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.

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.

Karima, the cabaret owner who's called 'Queen of the Night', meets Dr. Mahmoud, the university professor, and falls in love with him. Mahmoud is a widower living with his daughter Hoda who is engaged, and when Mahmoud proposes to Karima, both the daughter and her fiancé are against it.

Set in the summer of 1961 during President Nasser's land reforms, this is a story of the childhood friendship between Yasser, the son of a bourgeois landowner, and Leil, the son of an Egyptian peasant. When turbulent times tear Yasser's family apart, the boys team up for a money-making scheme that results in misadventures.

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.

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.

The story discusses the issue of immigration among young Egyptians in the 1960s and 1970s. As Nader and Amira prepare to emigrate abroad, they begin to rethink it after seeing the patriotic feelings of foreigners, who are residing in Egypt, for their countries

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Yearning to get back with Ehab, Salma finds her loveless marriage, his devastating secret, and society’s opinions stand in their way.

Mohammed , Helmi and Tawfiq are three friends, each one is very different from the other, Mohamed is careless who leaves his wife when she gets pregnant, while Helmi is an engineer who insists on doing what's right and defies danger and Tawfiq is an opportunist who cares for nothing.

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.

Nubi, a wealthy man with Communist ties, sets out to find his half-brother Gamal, who has been disowned for being gay, to let him inherit his father's fortune. In the process, Nubi is supposed to kill Gamal's stepmother Raifa, a suspected drug dealer, before she can kill his half-brother.

The wealthy merchant Salama moves from the tannery neighborhood to live in his new building in Mohandessin. His son, Hisham, returns from the war of 73 with a leg injury and PTSD, and his wife, Nadia, clings to him. As for his son, Issam, he owns a boutique, and his girlfriend, Nana, supplies him with goods from abroad, including medicine for his father. Salama decides to marry Nana, so Issam gets rid of her so that she will not share the inheritance with them.

This movie a modern romantic musical based on William Shakespeare's tragedy, Romeo and Juliet. a handsome Egyptian singer and actor "Mostafa Amar" who play as Romeo role and the pretty Egyptian ballerina and actress "Nelly Kareem" who play as Juliet role are both of them heirs to two enemies wealthy families who are competitors in the business world. Though they fall in love, their families are against the union, and they must decide if they will be able to stay away from each other to please their families or not to sacrifice with their big love for any reason or anybody and to be with each other forever even in the death .

A social drama that deals with the tense relationship between Muslims and Christians, through the story of a young Muslim who falls in love with a Christian girl and marries her despite the objection of everyone. On the other hand it revolves around the involvement of a businessman in a major corruption case in the country.

A horror feature that tells the story of Ezz El-Din, who returns from abroad after many years, looking for his family, and while staying at his family's mansion, he discovers an unexpected adventure.

At a boarding house in Cairo, the stories of seven women from different walks of life intertwine as they search for love and fight societal injustice.

Abo Dahab is a poor baker who goes to prison instead of his corrupted boss. When he gets out, he discovers that his employer did not fulfill his promise by supporting his family during his incarceration so he assaults him and gets fired from his job. While unemployed, Abo Dahab meets Haridi a drug dealer who hires him and later on gets killed by him and becomes one of the richest drug dealers.

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.

Four stories take place in a furnished apartment that we follow through the doorman and his family who live on top of the building in a miserable room. In the first story, a doctor tries to treat a figure with a political position. In the second story, Hassan meets in the 1970s with his old friend Nadim, who comes from Lebanon during its Civil War. The third story takes place at the beginning of the new millennium and the takeover of businessmen. As for the fourth story, it takes place before January 2011 when Sami returns under pressure from his family to sell the apartment and the whole building.

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.

Harley is a mechanical engineer who returned from the Gulf with his family to complete his university in Egypt, He is known for his speed and extreme intelligence, After graduating, He joins a gang and works as a transporter for them.

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.

After killers slay a crime boss en route to Cairo, a showdown erupts at his funeral between his family, clients and enemies over what really happened.

The story deals with the journey of Zinham, a young man who fled Egypt from Upper Egypt in search of a living, climbs up in organized crime and drug smuggling. His friend, Ibrahim, takes part in the crime journey. When he becomes one of the biggest drug smugglers (heroin) Who is in control of her market in Egypt in alliance with an Israeli smuggler, marries a dancer after he gets rid of Slim, the drug dealer who worked for him at the beginning of his career. He turns to liquidate everyone who stands in his way. He becomes drug addict and kills his close friend. (Ibrahim), after doubting the betrayal of his wife dancing with him.

Shahd throws a party in her villa and invites many of her friends, everyone is surprised by strange things that starts happening, as Shahd locks them inside the villa to find out the woman who had an affair with her husband.

As Mansour and Harby meet in the same prison cell, unresolved conflicts gradually ensue between the two as each tries to stand his ground, quite literally.

Tarek is a young man who is working at a telecommunications company,and he fell in love with a girl when he heard her voice in a radio talk show. A customer of the company he works at asks him to spy on a girl which stole a valuable thing from him. When Tarek does his searches, he discovers that she is the girl he have dreamed about.

The role of the movie is about two friends, one travels to a European country And The Other One combat To blind girl falls in love and when return to Egypt together they discover the same girl that he loves his friend and she traveled to this country to search for a way modern medical help to restore its consideration.

For the first time, Alaa participates in a drug gang operation. He rides in the girls' basketball team's car and hides the heroin he is smuggling in one of their bags. Police officer Raed watches him to identify the gang members. Iman is impressed by him and he confesses his true identity when she surprises him while he is searching her bag for heroin, and things get complicated for them.

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.

Adel is a simple employee who is married to a teacher, and has three children but faces financial troubles. He meets Iglal,the corrupt businesswoman,who marries him and he becomes rich. Then he meets Sherine, another rich woman and marries her also. Till he feels lost and wants to go back to his old life.

Booha, a butcher coming from the countryside to Cairo to find the man whom his late father left his money with, gets tangled in the big city, finds love with Kotta, and gets exploited by Farag.

The film depicts the encounter of ex-boxer Samy with nurse Hend as he saves her from an attempted rape but ends up accidentally killing one of the offenders. Events escalate and he gets to uncover a chain of drug dealers and another network that imports deadly pesticides causing cancer.

Hassan finds himself accused of terrorism because he went yo spend night with a prostitute in an abandoned apartment that was being used by a terrorist group in an attempt to kill a head of the state living in the same building.

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.

Tamer Wahid, a representative in the field of violence and motion films, suddenly rebelled against this kind of film, which is always preferred by the directors and distributors of his films, and sees the submission of films and always preferred by directors and distributors of films, and sees the provision of real-life films, Tamer asks the security director to nominate one of the competent officer In order to understand and understand the method of his actions, and his study of the crimes that occur in society, he is nominated by the officer Khalid, who is strict and sharp even with his wife, which is all the appreciation of the work of the actor Tamer. Khaled follows a group of thieves, who succeed in collecting documents to their religion, but they managed to expel Khalid from the police service and even chase him in his life. In the end, the harmony between Khalid and his wife is renewed.