Youssef Chahine

Hatem is a corrupt police officer, who loves his neighbor Nour, who in turn loves the prosecutor, Sherif and Hatem tries to win Nour’s attention ...

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 ...

The biblical tale of Joseph is told from an Egyptian perspective in this interesting character study. In this film, Joseph is called Ram. Ram, ...

40 international directors were asked to make a short film using the original Cinematographe invented by the Lumière Brothers, working under ...

Adam is the son of a wealthy Egyptian-American family who is studying at UCLA and returns home for a brief vacation. Upon his arrival he meets ...

The construction of the Aswan dam as seen by those who took part in it: engineers and workers, Egyptians and Soviets. Beginning with the day the ...

Set shortly before and during the Six Day War in June of 1967, The Sparrow follows a young police officer stationed in a small village in Upper ...

11 directors show their view on the terrorist attacks on the world trade center in New York.

When a free-spirited sailor is found murdered, his twin brother–a famous novelist–is the prime suspect. Investigators uncover a ...

Adapted from Abdel Rahman Al-Sharqawi’s well-known novel of the same name, this classic film by Egyptian master Youssef Chahine was eight ...

Ragab, a poor sailor, returns home to Alexandria after three years of absence, during which he tried to save money to marry his one true love, ...

The story is set in the 12th century in Arab-ruled Spanish province Andalusia, where famed philosopher Averroes is appointed grand judge by the ...

A collective film of 33 shorts directed by different directors about their feeling about cinema.