Sanaa Younes

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.

Yaseen is a lawyer who works for senior attorney, Kamaal. When he discovers that Kamal is involved in an illegal business with a tycoon, he gets publicly disbarred and loses his job. His fiance gets abducted to Italy when he tries to redeem himself, so he relentlessly forms a plan to set things right.

An employee in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs decides to marry a girl of a higher social status. At a moment of recklessness,he sends a wedding invitation to the President, and he responds to the invitation. Preparations are under way to receive the President at the wedding awaited by everyone.

The film revolves around a man who can spend all of his life in a difficult life by lying and cheating. He is connected to a girl who seeks to marry him and is disappointed to be associated with another man until he finds himself alone, which causes him to continue the monument again.

The film tells story about two childhood friends when their lives turn up side down by a businessman who wants to hire them to do things for him but they find out that he is one of their old friend took a different road in his life.

After the defeat of 1967, Samia moves with her brother and his family to another city and is forced to marry without love from Mossad the butcher, while having an affair with Amer the student.

An enthralling look at the relationship between America and the Arab World from an Arab perspective. It tells the story of Yehia, a renowned Egyptian filmmaker whose life has been shaped by a pair of disrupted love affairs, one with an American woman named Ginger, the other with America itself.

Tamer is a student who lives with his family. His father, Adam, is a doctor in economics, his sister, Salma, is a student at the College of Fine Arts, and his mother, Fawzia, is a very stingy woman. The events of the series take place in the early 2000s, with the bad economic situation, low salaries, and high prices

Belly dancer, Nahed Afify, is in the middle of a career crisis, so she distracts herself through multiple affairs. She ends each by collecting a fabric scrap from each lover’s clothes to form a lovers’ quilt. When she meets businessman, Moustafa, in Hurghada, she thinks he is another passing affair, but falling in love with him might mark the end of collecting lovers’ scraps in her life.

group of friends helping their friend to start her project in sharm el sheikh

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.

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.

During 1968 , in the Heliopolis area, a group of school students live for fun and pleasure, and they get to know a young boxer named (Adham), who changes their views on life in many aspects. (Adham) falls in love with the prostitute (Aisha), and decides to marry her, but his rich father wants to keep them apart.

Kamel works as an employee in the government and lives happily with his wife Amina and his two daughters. His neighbor Mohsen invites Kamel and his family to spend several days with his sister Suad in his luxury apartment in Alexandria.

Gamila is sentenced to one year in prison for manslaughter. Inside the prison, she meets a group of dangerous women and their leader Arwah who turned the prison into a drug den . She tries to controlol Gamila but she fights back.

This concise masterpiece began as a commission by French TV for the news series Envoyé spécial. By filming Cairo with his unique sense of artistic digression, Chahine transformed this portrait of a city into the self-portrait of a filmmaker.

Fardous, nicknamed Farawla, sells flowers on the street, she falls in love with a poor man who sells apples. One day a rich man sees them and decides to give them money in exchange for giving him happiness.

Nawal is a schizoid patient residing at a mental asylum in Alexandria. After her ex-husband takes away her only son. Dr. Shaker sympathizes with Nawal and decides to help her, but he soon discovers that the asylum's chief is planning to use the patients in unsafe experiments.

Rustam rushes the death of his wealthy wife Tafida so he can inherit her. When Magdy and Mona kidnap Tafida and threaten to kill her if Rustom doesn't give them a large sum of money for their performing band, Rustum refuses and finds it an opportunity to get rid of her.

Years after completing his service, Counselor Sameh goes on vacation to Alexandria, where he faces a conspiracy against him.

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Saeed and Waheed are two pilots and friends. Waheed gets to know the belly dancer Zizi while they are in Cyprus, who works for a gang. She puts drugs in his bag to smuggle them to Egypt, but mixes it with the bag of a flight attendant, the gang kidnaps the wives of both Said and Waheed as hostages to recover the drug bag.

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.

The play follows Hashem, an employee in a Cairo-based company, who works in one of its plants in Upper Egypt. Hashem travels to Cairo, hosted by his brother Fathalla, hoping to get moved to the company's headquarters. On his quest, Hashem visits the company's president at his house, and experiences a series of comic situations.

Dr. Raafat faces challenges and difficulties in raising his three daughters, Fawzia (Sanaa Younis), Soso (Shreihan) and Nadia (Ijlal Zaki).

In a new tale of the epic of Harafish, an unjust bully controls the alley, whose brother was imprisoned unjustly after he fed the poor without his permission. While in prison, his wife is preparing for a revolution by the poor to demolish this corrupt regime and end the tyranny in the alley.

Shehab the advertising director, makes a successful ad campaign for the opening of a disco, making many young people come to the disco, causing a huge fire. Shocked by the accident,he travels to Alexandria where he meets Chico the dwarf and helps him face a businessman who wants to take their land.

Teacher Fergany is assigned to supervise a school trip to the zoo in Cairo, during the trip a child disappears. He tries to search for her everywhere, to prevent renewed conflict between families in Upper Egypt.

A poor street vendor agrees with her lover to deceive a company owner and steal his money.

Egypt, 1947: in the midst of a cholera outbreak. A washerwoman tries to take care of her family, while at the same time resisting the advances of a charming suitor who's half her age.

A group of football team supporters go through a lot of trouble to watch the games while the management headed by Captain Aouf are reaping benefits effortlessly. To calm their rage Sorour is appointed as their representative in the council only to unravel their scam further, so they continue their revolt.

Hala is an orphaned child, hosted by a billionaire in his palace, to escape from the orphanage in which she and other children suffer from the injustice of the supervisor, and then Hala succeeds in filling the void of the life of the billionaire and imposing her will on him with her captivating innocence, and even succeeds in directing his heart to his secretary who loves him until he exchanges that love .

A land inherited by the children from their father is worth one million pounds. Before selling it, the uncle offers a contract stating that he bought it from the father before his death. So what do children do?

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Reda, a taxi driver, drives the wealthy widow Imane who has just returned from abroad. She lets him drive her to run errands, and he helps her break her sweetheart, the engineer Hassan, out from a mental hospital.

Adel is a failed author and his friend Yehia is a failed painter who no one buys his paintings except Azab. Adel suggests that Yehia fakes his own death which will make his paintings be sold at the highest price. Azab begins to buy the paintings,then the widow Dalia comes from abroad whom Yehia loves.

Salem is a corrupt merchant who fires the simple employee Shakir, who possesses some documents that incriminate Salem. During the pursuit by Salem's men to retrieve the documents, Shakir hides them in Dr. Aida's clinic without her knowing, and he is killed by Salem's men. His body was dumped on the road after being stripped of anything that could identify him. Salem calls one of his associates to kill the doctor.

Ibrahim (Salah al-Saadani) abandons his wife Fawzia (Najla Fathi) and leaves the town and settles in Cairo, where he married Hassania (Aida Riad), Fawzia and Ibrahim deny his knowledge of her and claims that the detective is crazy and exploits that she has no proof of her identity. She also comes with a pair of false papers calling for her child. Fawzia collapses and becomes depressed. They enter the mental hospital. Farida (Yusra) sympathizes with her and tries to help her in every way.

Samir excels in his studies and becomes the director of a mixed school. He believes that the school’s message is not only to teach but to educate. The teachers become divided into supporters and opponents of his principles, and one of the students admires the director and wishes to marry him.

Upper Egyptian Souad disguises herself as a bulldozer on the orders of her father, who did not give birth to males, to take revenge on her brother Ahmed, who works in a hotel in Cairo. During this, they clash with an antiquities smuggling gang, and the comedic events escalate.

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When a simple employee retires and lives with his wife who is different from him in character, and after his children get married, his wife is a controlling person who loves appearances, and he is a simple person who loves joking and modesty. His wife inherits a palace from one of her relatives, and events follow.

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A TV movie about a nuclear scientist who tries to balance her work as a nuclear scientist with her care and raising her son, but her work always takes precedence over her care for her family, which strains the relationship between her and her husband.

In the 1920s, Azouz is a failed actor and his fiancée Folla works as a maid in the house of the chief of police in Alexandria, who's responsible for arresting serial killers Raya and Sakina. When all plans to arrest them by officer Fathi fail, Azzouz and Folla disguise themselves as Raya and Sakina.

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Fahmy is an ardent believer in horoscopes and manages his life according to them. When a fortune-teller convinces him that his life is connected to a Virgo who has a black birthmark, he discovers that the girl in question is Nana, his friend Adel's fiancée.

Iman is the daughter of the businessman Gasser, both Ashraf and Sami are in love with her. Her father agrees to her engagement from Sami. A month before the wedding, she loses her virginity with Sami, and he dies in a car accident. Iman falls apart and Ashraf proposes to her.

Abduljawad is separated from his wife Iglal, and he left her with their children Hashim and Samira. Hussein proposes to Samira, but when Hussein's father insists on meeting Abduljawad, she turns to her brother Hashim, to persuade their father to go and see Igalal who still loves him.

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.

A story about a girl's protest and the possibility of this protest turning into a conflict

Hussein, a shy young man, is desperately in love with Samiha. However, Samiha is more interested in her singing and dancing cousin Lucy. Admiring Hussein greatly, Samiha's father attempts to help him and starts spreading the rumor that Hussein is having an affair with famous actress Hind Rostom, hoping jealousy will move the daughter's heart. The plan seems to work... until Hind Rostom herself comes to town.

An intellectual car breaks down on the road near the house of the simple employee Anwar, so she turns to him to stay with him, and he agrees after insisting, while he was waiting for a visit from the Bashkatib who was going to marry his daughter, which caused him many problems with him. He returns to her to ask her to intervene to convince the bachkateb and tell him the truth of the situation, but Fikri admires him, but her bacha father keeps her away from him and claims that he is threatened with bankruptcy.

Rajab (Fouad Al Muhandis) The shy, hard-working young man in his work loves Sawsan (Shweikar) his cousin and his partner Mitwalli the polygon (Abdel Moneim Madbouly), but she does not feel it and loves her cousin Elham Cabbage (Adel Imam) who is good at dancing and singing and is encouraged by her mother Zahra (Zouzou Chakib) but Metwally The polygon loves

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