El Scenarist

El Scenarist

2025 · 2 seasons · 14 eps · Talk

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The Screenwriter podcast with Wael Hamdy focuses primarily on the role of the screenwriter and the importance of screenwriting as a crucial first step in film and television production. In each episode, Wael Hamdy hosts one of his friends, a prominent screenwriter in Egypt, to explore the meaning and significance of the screenwriting profession, discussing its details and challenges, and how a written script is transformed into a film or series. Guests share their professional experiences in screenwriting, recounting the highs and lows of their journeys. Each conversation reveals new secrets from behind the scenes of drama and filmmaking, offering inspiration and expertise to anyone interested in starting or developing their skills in the world of screenwriting.

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Forty at Twenty

Forty at Twenty · 2022

Forty at Twenty

After a 20-year coma, Fahd wakes up as a forty-year-old and must choose between resuming his life where he left it or starting anew.

I Don't Care if the World Collapses

I Don't Care if the World Collapses · 2024

I Don't Care if the World Collapses

When the star of her new commercial chooses not to continue filming due to pressing circumstances, a young producer suffers a severe blow to her career. She has to choose between her human side and the responsibilities of her profession, and she attempts to save the filming of the commercial before it collapses.

El-Eyada

El-Eyada · 2008

SeriesFamilyComedy

The events revolve around three newly graduated doctors renting a small apartment and turning it into a triple clinic despite the different specialties, which leads to many comedic situations.

Daddy came

Daddy came · 2024

Hisham finds himself at a crossroads after being laid off from his job in a hotel, due to Corona, and he must find work and take care of his family under difficult circumstances.

Hepta: The Last Lecture

Hepta: The Last Lecture · 2016

Hepta: The Last Lecture

MovieRomanceDrama

Based on the best-selling novel of the same title. Dr. Shukri Mokhtar is a renowned social psychology specialist, best known for his ability to answer the simplest questions, who decides to give one last lecture about the very simple question: "how do we love?" He gives a full description of the different stages of love by recounting four different love stories going through curves and various crises.

This Other Thing

This Other Thing · 2020

This Other Thing

An Arab anthology drama unfolding across six cities — Beirut, Cairo, Riyadh, Jeddah, Dubai, and El Gouna — weaving together separate stories about love in its many forms: right person, wrong time; wrong person, right time; love lost, love deferred. Featuring a stellar pan-Arab cast, each episode is a self-contained meditation on modern relationships and longing.

Nightshift

Nightshift · 2020

Zein, a young man in his mid 20s, seems content with his job as a customer service representative for an internet service provider. During one of his shifts, way past midnight, he receives a call from a customer, Akram. Complaining about a malfunction, Akram’s frustration starts growing. His dissatisfaction with the process gradually becomes an abusive rant, during which he lashes out at Zein, exposing to him the drudgery of his work, his powerlessness, and the ugliness of his life.

6 Days

MovieDramaRomance

Yusef and Alia, former high school sweethearts separated by fate, are brought together years later, forced to confront their past and whether their rekindled love can withstand their changed lives. They must determine if they can navigate the complexities of their new realities to find a second chance at romance.

Heatwave

Heatwave · 2013

The story of the Al-Agaty family that consists of a mother and her two sons, one of whom is a police officer who faces a lot of problems as a result of his violent behavior, while the other son is a young revolutionary leftist often at odds with his brother and his family.

The Flood

The Flood · 2017

The Mandoah family leads a humble life, with the mother, Safia, bringing up her children after the death of her husband. Her husband has left a piece of land in Ismailia that turns out to be part of the planned area for the Suez Canal project, which causes the price of the land to skyrocket to 300 million pounds. They each find themselves owning millions in the blink of an eye. What will come next?

A Man Wanted

A Man Wanted · 2017

MovieComedyRomance

Eager to fulfill her dream of motherhood before it's too late, a relationship-skeptic banker comes up with an unusual plan to become a single mother.

Moftaraq Toroq

Moftaraq Toroq · 2024

When her husband, a prominent figure in society, is involved in a scandal, Amira has no choice but to return to her profession to support her two children, after fifteen years she spent as a housewife.

Safar Barlik

Safar Barlik · 2023

SeriesDramaWar & Politics

A historical epic that goes back to the horrifying days of the Ottoman Empire and accompanies four Arab college students in their revolt against the Sultanate’s tyranny.

Roses and Jasmine

Roses and Jasmine · 2026

Roses and Jasmine

A chance encounter between two people leading very different lives sets off a chain of charming mishaps and surprises. As a heartfelt romance emerges, their love is put to the ultimate test.

Micano

MovieDramaRomance

Khaled Al-Shahawy is an engineer afflicted with a strange form of amnesia. Despite his illness, he nonetheless takes part in a design competition with the aid of a colleague whom he later develops feelings for.

Drop Dead Diva

Drop Dead Diva · 2018

SeriesComedyDrama

(Dalida) dreams to be a famous model, but fate prevents it. When she has an accident and finds that she can't go to heaven because of being selfish. She returns back to the earth in the body (Alyiaa) where she has to face reality and accept herself.

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