The Time of Hatem Zahran

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.

Sayed and Alawiya, a husband and wife of employees, face life with a modest salary. His co-worker dies, so he goes to his family to offer his services and help them in completing the pension procedures, but after a while the situation of his co-worker’s family changes from poverty to wealth, and behind this move is that his co-worker has security. On his life insurance policy. Sid decides to insure his life.

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.

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 first Sultan of Egypt and Syria leads the Muslim military campaign against the invading Christians from Europe during the Third Crusade.

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.

After her husband's death, Nahed decides to marry Galal, whom he loved before her first marriage. The couple decides to spend their vacation in Alexandria. To Nahed, who denies it at the beginning, but when Jalal approached the matter about these doubts, he does not deny it, threatening to kill him if he leaves him, seizing the opportunity at the first moment when he can escape.

A poor girl (Mona) who works as a simple employee at a bank and provides her family. Under the pressure of need and illness of her father and the pressure of her mother, which insists on her to increase her income, she gets a wealthy old businessman to love her. An engineer (Adel), who works in the company of her lover (Abdo) reveals his love, she convinces him to resign and build his own independent company and give him jewelry as a capital and stand by him and encourage him and cut ties with Abdo. Will their love story continue?

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.

Three young women working at a cafe struggle with difficult relationships, betrayal, and loss as they navigate their lives after graduation.

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.

Set in 1933, the mayor informs the peasants that the share of irrigation of their land will be split equally between them and feudal lord Mahmoud Bey. The peasants send Mohamed Effendi to submit a petition to the government. Mahmoud Bey then proposes a project that would require taking part of the peasants' lands.

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 young man travels to Egypt and becomes embroiled in an independence movement by chance. Produced entirely on location overseas, which was groundbreaking at the time.

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.

Al Hakika Al Areya

The film revolves around the family of Mr. Ahmed Abdel-Gawad through his second and third generations, which consists of Yassin and Kamal the younger son, and the sons of Aisha / Khadija, in the age of young people and political and social transformations and their impact on their maturity and life paths.

Sodfa suffers in her life from her husband, Sayed the idiot, her cousin, who lives with her in his mother’s house in Abu Qir. Mahmoud returns to the place after completing his studies and supervises the brick factory owned by Um Sayed, which angers Sodfa, who knows that she was in a relationship with Mahmoud. Mahmoud assures her of his love, so she asks him to marry her after she asks for a divorce from Sayed, who turns out to be listening to their conversation closely, so a fight breaks out between them, and Sodfa encourages him to kill him.

Abdel-Gabbar leads a gang of outlaws who carry out robberies, murders, and looting, taking refuge in the mountains of Upper Egypt. A young police officer from the village decides to rid his community of Abdel-Gabbar and his men.

The fugitive Sayed seeks refuge with his uncle who works as a cook for a wealthy family. When the family's daughter gets divorced for the third time, the family enlist Sayed's help to marry her as a mohallel so she could reunite with her husband.

Said the officer in Vice Squad is shocked by the decision of his boss to stop the investigation into the case of Alia Hanim because of her connections with officials and turns into a rigid person. When Said has information that some women visit a flat and practice fornication , he tries to prove the charge against them even by falsification.

A grandfather dies and leaves his wealth to the best married grandson. Grandmother Zahira insists on carrying out his will, which causes a struggle between the grandchildren to get the fortune. The three grandchildren represent the various facets of strength: money, mind, and muscles.

A simple minded peasant was recruited in the Egyptian army where he was deceived to believe that political activists are his homeland enemies, but not for so long.

Based on the life and legend of Antarah ibn Shaddad, a 6th century poet and hero whose poetic works are considered among the greatest in the Arab language.

A man has two sons from two different ladies at the same day,he writes them both to his wife as twins it in the formal papers.

After finishing her studies abroad , Hanan (Laila Alawi) returns to the home of her wealthy father Salem (Ahmed Mazhar), who's married to Inayat (Souad Hussein). She meets Ahmed (Iman El Bahr Darwish) who works for her father and her stepmother tries to get rid of him so that Hanan marries her son.

He was a student at the Faculty of Medicine, Dr. Ahmed Halim (Adel Adham), who studied with his daughter Laila (Najwa Ibrahim). He was a student at the Faculty of Medicine. , And echoed on his workshop Iman (Moushira Ismail), the daughter of one of the wealthy, and impressed and loved him,

Abbas, a resident of Cairo, is appointed by the government to hold the office of supervisor in a post office in a small village in Upper Egypt.

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

Farid is a student at the College of Veterinary Medicine. He has a love story with Samira, his cousin. Three girls are trying to obtain a marriage contract to guarantee a job outside Egypt, but they can only find Farid. Farid marries the four of them, including the club owner, under the urging of his financial circumstances.

Mustafa mattress in a textile company, is suffering badly from director Morsi. He is married to a man from the woman who loves money so much, buy Mustafa lantern magic in the month of Ramadan, and when he returns it to the House out of it Elf Afrckoh who tells him that under his command, is asked to Mustafa to become a manager rather than Morsi, Mustafa, Director becomes, and feels that he has become Huda employee in stature he loves. Morsi treated in the same cruelty, trying to Anchorage to understand the secret of wealth and prestige, which landed on the opponent, especially that of senior management to accept the establishment of Morsi.

After failing to find stable work in Cairo, Hassanein joins a group of beggars and unwittingly becomes involved with a corrupt businessman who suspects him of being a police informant.

Abu al-Wafa soldier of the border weapon lives with his old father Darwish, who was also guarding the border and his wife Saadi, who does not have a child, yet he thinks that he is sterile, so as not to embarrass her, but Tairh ignorance! She is frustrated when she finds out the truth and Salem, the drug dealer, is being bribed to Abu Al-Wafa for allowing a drug shipment into the country

The wealthy Hassan al-Wahsh fails to get close to the invader, Aziza, who repels him. And between her and promised to marry her after she got involved in their relationship with him. Aziza and Omar, who lives in a conflict between his love for her and his loyalty to his uncle who raised him, recur.

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.

Nadia moves to a secondary school for boys to teach in Cairo. But the students are not letting her do her job, until an incident happens.

Asim is a novelist who is busy writing a new novel at the urging of the publisher. Imad is chasing him and deluding him that he derives his ideas from him, and that there is a hidden force between them that transmits his ideas to Asim Lutfi’s mind, causing him to suffer a psychological condition that stops him from writing, he travels to Alexandria to complete the story, Imad contacts him and provides him with some evidence that proves the mental telepathy between them, which confirms that Emad is the author of all works published by Issam and were the reason for his fame.

Two university students fall in love on campus and inform their parents that they want to get married. This decision makes the parents immediately very happy but when they find out who the parents of their future son- or daughter-in-law are, they get horrified. It turns out that these young lovers are much more connected than they had realized, and the question arises whether they might even be related.