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The Uprising

October 2013 •English

The Uprising shows us the Arab revolutions from the inside. It is a multi- camera, first-person account of that fragile, irreplaceable moment when life ceases to be a prison, and everything becomes possible again.

Arn: The Kingdom at Road's End

August 2008 •Swedish

Arn has served his term in the Holy land and returns home to be reunited with his beloved Cecilia. When he returns home, he discovers that political forces tries to separate him and Cecilia - but thanks to queen Blanka they can finally get married. Arn knows that war is looming and with his martial knowledge he starts to build an army at his new home at Forsvik.

The Most Dangerous Man in the World

January 1967 •Arabic

Mister X is the head of an international smuggling ring in Chicago and arrives in Cairo to practice his activity. The police know about him and begin to watch him. The police exploit the great resemblance between X and the airport employee Zaki, so they exploit him in their mission, and the events follow in a comic form.

Hideous Kinky

February 1999 •English

In 1972, disenchanted about the dreary conventions of English life, 25-year-old Julia heads for Morocco with her daughters, six-year-old Lucy and precocious eight-year-old Bea.

Zwei Bayern im Harem

September 1957 •German

Towelhead

September 2008 •English

A young Arab-American girl struggles with her sexual obsession, a bigoted Army reservist, and her strict father during the Gulf War.

Two on the Road

June 1984 •Arabic

Mamdouh meets with Hanan on a ship heading to Greece, and a romance starts between them, so Mamdouh proposes to Hanan. To his surprise, Hanan returns suddenly to Egypt and asks him not to try to find her again. Mamdouh returns to Egypt to find that she is married to Ezzat Beik, a very powerful man, and a war ensues between Mamdouh and Ezzat.

A Prophet

August 2009 •French

Sentenced to six years in prison, Malik El Djebena is alone in the world and can neither read nor write. On his arrival at the prison, he seems younger and more brittle than the others detained there. At once he falls under the sway of a group of Corsicans who enforce their rule in the prison. As the 'missions' go by, he toughens himself and wins the confidence of the Corsican group.

The Chipmunk Adventure

May 1987 •English

The Chipmunks and the Chipettes go head to head in a hot air balloon race, and the winner gets $10,000. Unbeknownst to the participants, the "race" is actually a diamond smuggling ring!

Wanted: Dead or Alive

January 1987 •English

Nick Randall is a Los Angeles-based bounty hunter and an ex-CIA operative who is asked by a former co-worker to help track down terrorist Malak Al Rahim. However, Malak Al Rahim is also looking for Randall, and Randall's employers tell him where to find him. This results in the death of his best friend, Sgt. Danny Quintz, and his girlfriend, Terry, eventually forcing a showdown on the waterfront.

The 13th Warrior

August 1999 •English

A Muslim ambassador exiled from his homeland joins a group of Vikings, initially offended by their behavior but growing to respect them. As they travel together, they learn of a legendary evil closing in and must unite to confront this formidable force.

Shibh Munharef

September 2008 •Arabic

A comedy about a young man who desperately wants to be gangster.

Body and Passion

March 1972 •Arabic

A happy relationship developed between Hoda [Naglaa Fathy] and Ahmed [Mahmoud Yassine]. Ahmed was planning to meet with her parents to ask for her hand, then suddenly went abroad to get his doctorate. Hoda's father [Ibrahim Saafan] got into a severe financial crisis and died, leaving Hoda in great pain. She felt better when she heard Ahmed was returning, but his plane crashed while Hoda was waiting to meet him at the airport. Her friend Dolat [Soheir El-Bably] tried to get her to accept treatment at a home for women, but she would not stay there; she went on a partying binge in Lebanon instead. Then Hoda heard Ahmed had not died, so she wrote him a letter about her situation. Ahmed came to see her, but she overdosed on sleeping pills and killed herself the following day.

Ayazon

December 2006 •Arabic

Businessman Sayed Fawzy offers a reward of ten million pounds to those who help him find his daughter who had been missing for twenty years now. While his greedy neighbour deludes him about her whereabouts, he meets Officer Gameela who tries to find her amongst the many greedy impostors.

Doctor Silicon

March 2009 •Arabic

An Egyptian comedy about plastic surgery.

Can’t Complain

July 2007 •Arabic

A comedy about triplet brothers with only one birth certificate.

The Yacoubian Building

June 2006 •Arabic

Cairo: a 70-year-old building of once-luxury flats with tenements on the roof. Zaki, an aging libertine, feuds with his sister. Pious Hajj Azzam takes a second wife, in secret, to satisfy his sexual drive within religious bounds. Bothayna, poor and beautiful, wants to support her family with her dignity intact. Her former fiancé, Taha, the janitor's son, humiliated by the police, turns to fundamentalism. Hatem, a gay editor, seduces and corrupts a young man from the sticks. Two Coptic brothers, one a tailor and the other being Zaki's factotum, connive for property. Allah is on everyone's lips, and corruption is in their hearts.

Bobbos

June 2009 •Arabic

A businessman, stuck in the credit crunch, falls in love with a businesswoman who is in turn stuck in the credit crunch.

Al-Zamahlawia

November 2008 •Arabic

The film revolves around the families of Shehata Hussein and Salim Abu Nawas (Salah Eidullah and Izzat Abu Auf), one of whom belongs to Zamalek football Club and the other to Al-Ahli football Club. Both families have a lot of hostile feelings because of their extreme football fanaticism. Abeer Abu Nawas (Bushra) is in love with Hassan Ibn Shehata (Ahmed Azmi), which puts this story of love in front of the obstacle of football fanaticism of both families.

Haha we Tofaha

December 2005 •Arabic

In a house the popular area, Abdeen, live Haha and his sister, Tuffaha, Haha works as "Nubachi" whose duty is to collect gift money thrown at belly dancers, at wedding parties, from under the dancers, while Tuffaha works as a nurse in a hospital. A conflict arises between them about who gets to keep the family home, as Haha wants to get married a live in it, and Tuffaha is in love with Fawzi, a gas cylinder mobile salesman, and wants to marry him and live in family home, but Haha disapproves this relationship.