Rags & Tatters

Decor

Maha has always been passionate about cinema, and as a set designer she's become an expert at creating imaginary worlds. Under immense pressure at work, she sights another life on the horizon and begins slipping between realities-one resembling the film set she's designed and the other her supposed real life. As she grows ever more entangled in each, the border between reality and imagination becomes blurred, and she must choose for the first time what she truly desires.

Microphone

Upon his return to Alexandria, Khaled becomes intrigued with a graffiti mural opposite his apartment. As he pursues this further, a larger underground arts scene slowly reveals itself, composed of musicians, filmmakers, and graffiti artists. As they struggle to get their voices heard, Khaled is compelled to help them acquire some much deserved visibility.

Heliopolis

8 characters skew lifelines that never really intersect in the suburb of Heliopolis in Cairo within a frame of time of 24 hours all in a very stagnant state and never achieving goals.

18 Days

10 filmmakers provide 10 separate stories focusing on the 18 days of the 2011 Egyptian revolution. Ten stories they have experienced, heard, or imagined.

Exterior/Night

When a day in the life of a beleaguered Egyptian filmmaker goes sideways, he witnesses anew issues like class and gender relations.

19B

In a dilapidated villa, lives an old doorman who watches the villa since the sixties of the last century, so it becomes his private world. But all of a sudden his stability is threatened by a young park attendant who wants to break into his private space, forcing him to face his fears. so now the doorman finds himself in an unexpected confrontation in which he rediscovers himself again.

Encrypted Letter

Fayez discovers a code sheet that his grandfather left to him before he was killed, of a treasure map in Jerusalem, drawn by the Jews fleeing to Egypt. He goes on an adventure with his friends, Ismail and Bedair, to search for the map hidden in an archaeological temple in Luxor.

The Inevitable Journey to Find a Wedding Dress

On the eve of her wedding in Cairo, Warda's perfect white gown is ruined, sparking a frantic search across the city. What begins as a mission to replace a dress becomes a deeper journey into her identity, her relationships and the life she's about to step into.

Asham

Set against the backdrop of the unrest during the pre-revolution period of January 25, 2011, by following the stories of six relationships in different stages that express ambition, happiness and disappointments, that are connected with Asham , a street vendor, who expresses optimism about Egypt's future.

The Average White Man

Zaghloul is a young inventor who is trying to save his household from collapse. In an attempt to get the money, he decides to break into the villa of the businessman Adham, but his attempt is thwarted as he finds himself in the yellow of the desert with Adham and Caramella.

Ma'lesh Ehna Bnetbahdel

Al-Qarmouty owns a coffee shop in Nazlet El-Semman. When he sends his son, Wahid, to Baghdad to deliver a mango shipment to his friend Abu Adnan, he gets arrested for criticizing Saddam Hussein. As the US forces prepare to attack Iraq, Al-Qarmouty has to go to Iraq to find his son.

What's Going on?

Two Friends decide to get married in the same night, after being subjected to a big family decision to their marriage of two girls from a hostile family to finish the seas of blood resulting from revenge between two families.

The Forest

A group of homeless kids and their struggle to earn money by going through trash,stealing,disturbing drugs and prostitution. The film sheds the light on what makes them do up-normal behaviors to survive and that society and government are responsible for this spreading of this issue.

Cinderella in Arabic

A gentle and dreamy girl who works as a costume assistant in a theater group faces troubles at work as the band's director and his son both love her, and at home as her stepmother prefers her own daughter to her and treats her unjustly. Can she find the balance her life lacks?

Eye of the Sun

Shams is a young girl who resides in the local neighborhood of Ain Shams. The life of the family turns into a tragedy when they learn their young Shams has leukemia, and they try to fulfill her only wish to visit Downtown Cairo.

Stray Cats

A short feature about a prostitute named Dunia who spends the night with Amir, a rich man who loves Cairo at night. But when she returns the 500 dollars he gave her for their night of passion, he looks forward to spending another night with her after falling for her.