The Pursued

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.

Ferial resents her twin brother Fahmy for getting engaged, while Saad struggles to win her over because of her devotion to Fahmy.

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

A pampered girl discovers that she's in real trouble, when Raouf steals her jewelry on the night of their wedding. Not knowing how to face her uncle and his partner amid this confusion, she stumbles upon Hamdi, and she asks him to act as her husband in front of them.

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.

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.

Causes the killing of a gypsy man. He seduces him and marries her and begins to turn his life

AN elderly man, stern in his personal and professional life, spends his days in a monotonous routine. but what will happen when a beautiful new secretary is hired to work for him?

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.

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.

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.

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.

Set in the 14th century. Under their leader Timur, the Tartar hordes invade the Middle East and take over areas as widespread as Persia, Azerbaijan, Egypt, and Syria. A lowly woman from a harem (Lubna Aziz) rises to lead the Egyptians against the invaders.

Asem is a happy husband and father of two children. He works for the wealthy Fouad and Fouad's daughter Alia falls in love with him. Asem dreams of wealth and love together, so he abandons his wife and children and marries the carefree girl Alia, but he stumbles and does not achieve wealth after losing true love.

A number of employees in a company are united by the desire to spend their annual vacation in a resort by taking a summer trip to the city of Ras El-Bar.Most of those who go to save the money for the trip in order to spend the vacation, especially Farid, who is a miserly man, the head of the family, and his daughter Samira, who dreams of a groom during the summer.

"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

Hassan enters a mental hospital, claiming madness after stealing a jewelry shop. Naima pretends to be his sister, and meets Adam the head of the nurses and agrees to marry him. Hassan escapes with the help of Adam while Naima takes the jewelry bag and and everyone starts chasing her.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

The film combines 3 separate stories .. The first story (Dunia Allah) to Naguib Mahfouz and starring Salah Mansour and Nahed Sharif .. Tell the story of a courier in a government service approached the age of the pension did not enjoy his life at all decides to embezzlement of employees salaries and travel to Alexandria with one of the girls on the street to enjoy several weeks He was convinced that he did not harm anyone because all the employees did not need a salary except for one employee who was burdened with social burdens.

Haridy arrives at the vegetable market in search of a job opportunity, he works for Master Abu Zaid and after a while he separates and marries Hossnyia. Haridy forms an alliance against Abu Zaid, but he soon becomes more powerful and his condition turns to worse.

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.

The police chases the drug dealer Sbe Aallayl, and he hides the drugs in Salwa's car. But when the car breaks down, Hassan the mechanic comes by and repairs it and hides the drugs. Sbe Aallayl's gang kidnap Salwa to give them back the drugs she knows nothing about.

Shokry, a security officer in a village in Upper Egypt, seeks to protect infidelity from stalking. He asks to marry Amal, who is working with her father Abdel Fattah at the Kafr al-Kufr school. An unknown man attacks her in the evening and does not know his identity. There is doubt about Jasser and Abu Atwa the offender and his brother Abdul Rahman, and in the House of the Mayor recognizes Abdul Rahman as the actor, accompanied him to the center thanks to the center, although the way he is risky, open fire on their car and kill Abdul Rahman, it turns out that Abu Atwa is the killer and surrenders himself to the police His brother deserves death.

Two college students live together in Cairo. As they fall for their neighbor Mona, they start to compete to win her favor which stirs up trouble.

An ill-fated flight ends in the Western Desert where it crash-fives into quicksand as the passengers try to control their temper. The movie provides archetypes as they start reflecting on their lives in crisis, some of them being hopeless, and some of them being hopeless romantics.

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.

Two brothers with a rich uncle, who love his two daughters, Faiza and Faouia, are deaf. The father loses all his wealth and the two brothers become poor, pushing Hamed with his sister to Rushdie while traveling abroad in order to obtain a doctorate. A relationship between (Rushdie) and (Suhair), a faithful (faithful) nurse, will arise that appears sinful at its beginning, but (Rushdie) can wake up to his senses and return to his senses.

When Shaikhon marries Dalal, a belly dancer, they are blessed with two kids. Shaikhon steals Dalal's money to buy the club where she works. Dalal gets back at him and reports him to the police who have him imprisoned. When he comes out of prison full of vengeance, his past ghosts still haunt him.

The film revolves around Magda, who lives under extremely difficult social conditions and tries in vain to obtain an honest source of livelihood. She ends up pickpocketing on public transportation, and from there she picks up the lawyer Alaa with his knowledge. He searches for her everywhere out of his extreme love for her and his sympathy for her condition and case, with the help of his brother who works in the prosecution service.

Wafa confesses to her fiancé Ahmed about her previous relationship with a young man who is martyred in the war. Wafa gives in to Ahmed and gets pregnant. He welcomes the fetus and sets a date for marriage, but his friend discourages him, which upsets Wafa for his reluctance to get married.

The story revolves around the mayor of Morschi married to a dancer whose son was born from his first wife. The mayor exploits the peasantry to achieve his personal ambitions and goals without paying attention to them. After a period, the mayor knows that someone from the ministry will search him, The mayor believes that one of them is the inspector-general of the ministry and approaches him, exploiting the other person to deceive the mayor with his friend and asking him for many bribes.

A wealthy merchant monopolized the grain trade and used to hide it from time to time in order to manipulate its prices in the market, in this way it is a great wealth, suddenly the merchant disappears and leaves his wife who fails to know the secret of his sudden disappearance. She works for an accountant young man, who quickly falls in love with her, and at the same time helps her manage the department store.