Esam Abjy

A newly graduated young doctor has hopes of making his way steadily in his country, or of traveling to another country in order to achieve his dreams. In the village, he wakes up from his rosy dream he lived before he traveled to a harsh reality, after he is accused of murder.

Screenwriter Goes to the hospital for medical examinations, but he heard strange news. This hospital has seven floors, whenever it is moved to the bottom floor, becomes close to death

The Yazerli is the foreman who provides work to day laborers. The film’s poetic, non-narrative structure simulates the fractured thoughts of a young boy who is forced to leave school and find work on the docks. Using minimal dialogue but evocative music and sounds, separate vignettes introduce characters the boy encounters in a single workday. The filmmaker explores the child’s vivid imaginary world while tangibly conveying the physical harshness and repressed sexuality of a life spent in poverty and manual labor. Based on a novella by Hanna Mina.

A feudal lord and his business manager lead a careless life, squandering huge sums on their debauched lifestyle during their trips to France. As the scope of exploitation expands in front of the business manager, he oppresses the peasants and practices usury, so Zanouba decides to enter a special game with the usurer so that she can bring him down.

On the eve of the Israeli attack on Egypt in 1956, Israel declares martial law in all the occupied Arab territories without any previous notice. When the villagers of Kafr Kassem returned home from the fields, they were butchered and killed in what is known today as the massacre of “Kafr Kassem”.

With the housing crisis worsening and cement blocks constantly creeping up to swallow old houses with their inhabitants, a jungle of wolves that live in a fierce world lies behind the cement jungle. As a young journalist and his beautiful wife clash with what they think is the wolf of the jungle, it turns out that this wolf is only one of several wolves in a whole jungle of wolves.

Azmi, a legal adviser refuses to sign the budget of the celebration of a project as it's twice what was spent on the project itself. He gets fired from his work, and decides to write a comprehensive report of all the daily atrocities in the hope of presenting it to higher authorities.

Based on Ghassan Kanafani's novel, 'Returning to Haifa,' this film, set in 1967, centres on a Palestinian couple who return to the war-torn city to search for their young son Farhan, whom they were forced to abandon when fleeing Zionist acts of terrorism in 1948. Saeed and Atefeh's own house has even been taken over by a Polish Jewish family, who, it transpires, are holding Farhan hostage. It is up to the couple, with the assistance of Farhan's steely grandmother, to find a way to reclaim their lost son. One of the few Iranian films to tackle the Palestinian issue from a historical perspective, this stunning piece of work from Seifollah Daad features meticulous attention to period detail and moving performances.