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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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?

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.

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.

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.

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