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Donia Massoud
Born May 2, 1979 (age 47)
Donia Massoud is an Egyptian actress and singer. Born and raised in Alexandria, Massoud moved to Cairo at the age of 19, to the chagrin of her parents. Discovering the stage and theater in Cairo, she embarked on careers as a singer and actress. During the early 2000s, Massoud spent three years travelling through Egypt, collecting folk tales and music. She made recordings of traditional songs and…
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Eagles of the Republic · 2025Eagles of the Republic
★ 6.92025
MovieThrillerDrama
George Fahmy, Egypt's most adored actor, is pressured to star in a film commissioned by the highest authorities. He reluctantly accepts and finds himself thrown into the inner circle of power. Like moth drawn to flame, he begins an affair with the mysterious wife of the general overseeing the project.
Shall I Compare You to a Summer's Day? · 2022Shall I Compare You to a Summer's Day?
★ 5.12022
MovieDramaMusic
The director turns the diary of his sexual adventures into a serial narrative in the style of “One Thousand and One Nights”. This polyamorously-minded queer musical applies the same playful approach to folk tales as it does to Egyptian pop music.
She Made Me a Criminal · 2006She Made Me a Criminal
★ 6.72006
MovieRomanceComedy
The movie is about a very naive young man, who wants to fix his house before it falls, but does not have the money, and rich girl who likes to spend money uncontrollably, whose father is scrooge, who would not give her access to her trust fund. In order to force her father to give her money, she stages a kidnapping with the assistance of her best friend and the naive young man, who ends up falling in love with her.
In the Heliopolis Flat · 2007In the Heliopolis Flat
★ 6.92007
MovieRomanceDrama
Najwa, a music teacher from the city of Minya, Upper Egypt, seizes the opportunity to come to Cairo on a trip with her students to search for Tahany, her first teacher that taught her music and used to live in an apartment in Heliopolis.
The Aquarium · 2008The Aquarium
★ 6.82008
MovieDrama
Youssef is a hotshot anesthesiologist who often sleeps in his car for privacy. Laila is the careerist host of a late night radio call-in show. These two members of Cairo's elite, lost souls traveling parallel paths of longing and disconnection, are the principal fish in Yousry Nasrallah's The Aquarium, a meditation on the intellectual capital of the Middle East, now bent under the sway of repression in all its forms.
Stay Awake · 2002Stay Awake
★ 5.22002
MovieComedyFantasy
Kamel Shehata is an accountant with simple dreams. He tries to forget his problems by resorting to drugs with his friends. Until a spirit that was watching him appeared disguised as a human to help him face life.
Blue Dive · 2012Blue Dive
2012
MovieDrama
A short film that contemplates the mysterious relationship between humans, the sea, and death. Set in Alexandria on the Mediterranean, the film tells the story of three people who meet by chance in the corridors of a hospital, each of whom has experienced the dangers of the blue sea. Mokhtar, a painter suffering from schizophrenia, contemplates the color of death, while Salim, a diver fascinated by the sea, dies in a hospital bed. Meanwhile, Dalia, a nurse, recalls her father's drowning.
Live Your Days · 2004Live Your Days
★ 9.02004
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