
Directing
Ibrahim El Batout
Acting credits
7.8Maha has always been passionate about cinema, and as a set designer she's become an expert at creating imaginary worlds. Under immense pressure at work, she sights another life on the horizon and begins slipping between realities-one resembling the film set she's designed and the other her supposed real life. As she grows ever more entangled in each, the border between reality and imagination becomes blurred, and she must choose for the first time what she truly desires.
Decor
2014
NRShows how today's Egyptian filmmakers, through fiction, documentary or participatory journalism, take action in the long and difficult process of transformation that is Revolution in their country.
Weapons of Choice
2012
NRHawi is about several Egyptian citizens living in the city of Alexandria under very tough conditions. They are striving to make a living and make ends meet and all they have is hope.
Hawi
2010
7.28 characters skew lifelines that never really intersect in the suburb of Heliopolis in Cairo within a frame of time of 24 hours all in a very stagnant state and never achieving goals.
Heliopolis
2009
8.3A new mother struggles with parenthood, adjusting to life with an imprisoned husband, and her own mental health.
Certified Mail
2019
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Today's Directors
2005
Behind the camera
6.2Amr is a 35 year old man who wakes up one day to a very different Egypt. Amr rarely leaves home as he works from his place designing software. It is January 25, 2011 and Amr starts the day with news of protests all over Cairo and marches leading to Tahrir square. Something tells him that these protests will lead to major political change. Farah, a woman in her early 30’s, is a news anchor on Egyptian television. The news Farah gives her audience is very different from the news presented online or on international news channels.
Winter of Discontent
2013
6.2Amr is a 35 year old man who wakes up one day to a very different Egypt. Amr rarely leaves home as he works from his place designing software. It is January 25, 2011 and Amr starts the day with news of protests all over Cairo and marches leading to Tahrir square. Something tells him that these protests will lead to major political change. Farah, a woman in her early 30’s, is a news anchor on Egyptian television. The news Farah gives her audience is very different from the news presented online or on international news channels.
Winter of Discontent
2013
NRShams is a young girl who resides in the local neighborhood of Ain Shams. The life of the family turns into a tragedy when they learn their young Shams has leukemia, and they try to fulfill her only wish to visit Downtown Cairo.
Eye of the Sun
2009
NRShams is a young girl who resides in the local neighborhood of Ain Shams. The life of the family turns into a tragedy when they learn their young Shams has leukemia, and they try to fulfill her only wish to visit Downtown Cairo.
Eye of the Sun
2009
NRHawi is about several Egyptian citizens living in the city of Alexandria under very tough conditions. They are striving to make a living and make ends meet and all they have is hope.
Hawi
2010
NRHawi is about several Egyptian citizens living in the city of Alexandria under very tough conditions. They are striving to make a living and make ends meet and all they have is hope.
Hawi
2010
The story revolves around 15 characters whose lives have been affected by many factors: war, disease, disability, addiction; shedding light on the fine line between reality and fantasy through ordinary events that take place in Cairo, where a war photographer is working on his first feature film.
Ithaca
2005
The story revolves around 15 characters whose lives have been affected by many factors: war, disease, disability, addiction; shedding light on the fine line between reality and fantasy through ordinary events that take place in Cairo, where a war photographer is working on his first feature film.
Ithaca
2005
The story revolves around 15 characters whose lives have been affected by many factors: war, disease, disability, addiction; shedding light on the fine line between reality and fantasy through ordinary events that take place in Cairo, where a war photographer is working on his first feature film.
Ithaca
2005
6.3Ali believes his late girlfriend's soul has been reincarnated in a goat. His mother forces him to visit a spiritual healer, where he meets Ibrahim, who suffers from severe depression and hears mysterious noises, in a way to find hope, Ali, his goat and Ibrahim head on a trip across Egypt hoping to help each other overcome their problems.
Ali, the Goat and Ibrahim
2017
5.4When Al-Ott learns that a group of his neighborhood's children was kidnapped as a part of an organ-trafficking scheme, he kills one of Master Fathy's men and rescues the lone survivor. He and Ghagary find themselves a part of a long chase to find Master Fathy.
El ott
2014
5.4When Al-Ott learns that a group of his neighborhood's children was kidnapped as a part of an organ-trafficking scheme, he kills one of Master Fathy's men and rescues the lone survivor. He and Ghagary find themselves a part of a long chase to find Master Fathy.
El ott
2014