Emad Maher

Magdy and Sama, a retired couple in their 60s, live quietly in their Cairo apartment. Their calm routine is disrupted when their fridge breaks down. What should be a simple repair spirals into a bizarre, months-long battle with a shady maintenance company. As the fridge remains unfixed, so does everything else, pushing them to confront not only the cracks in the system but also in their own sense of purpose.

A married couple get a chance to rediscover their relationship during a power outage as they were settling their divorce.

Both Mahmoud and Zeinab join hands to search for the original version of the first Egyptian independent film that was made back in the 1980s, all copies of which were either destroyed or confiscated for unknown reasons by the government film agency, an entity that governed film production and distribution at the time.

The sea and the city. Man and woman. Fear, willingness, loss and regain. A journey full of encounters and engagements into which He plunges to regain his collapsed world, in a foggy mysterious passage between wake and dream. Inspired by Naguib Mahfouz’s The Dreams.

The history of systematic oppression of women in Sudan dates back to the 16th century. Heroic Bodies presents many examples of the ways in which the female body was regarded and treated as property, from women forced to live as concubines or slaves, to genital mutilation and facial disfigurement. Women’s rights advocates—most of them women, but also a few men—tell stories of horrific traditions and oppression, as well as brave resistance and change.

In a journey of a racing mind on guilt and death; Zakaria is prohibited from eating chicken by the doctor’s orders, driven by his fear of the consequences of breaking the rules and giving in to his desires he abstains completely from chicken even to the afterlife. Zakaria is an adaptation and a tribute to the Nobel Prize winner Naguib Mahfouz's novel "Dreams".

Fajr is a famous temptation star, and the heroine of the first feature film of a young director. She rejects the kissing scene in the film, which provokes the director and the producer, and everyone tries to reach common ground to complete the film and get out of this dilemma.

Through the lives of the characters and their simple daily details we discover together the downtown neighborhood and feel its spirit which is reflected in the various similar and contradicting worlds which this neighborhood brings together.