Screenplay: Youssef Chahine

Direction Youssef Chahine

Cast Ahmed Zaki · Naglaa Fathy · Farid Shawqi · Mahmoud El-Meliguy

Direction Samira Makhmalbaf · Claude Lelouch · Youssef Chahine · Danis Tanovic

Cast Ernest Borgnine · Ken Ogata · Tetsurô Tanba · Tomorô Taguchi

Plot A reaction piece to the United States' terrorist attack on September 11, 2001, this controversial film calls upon eleven directors from various countries to contribute 11-minute 9-second films about the...

Direction Theodoros Angelopoulos · Olivier Assayas · Bille August · Jane Campion

Cast Cindy Beckett · Audrey Dana · Jacques Frantz · George Babluani

Plot To Each His Cinema is a 2007 film, produced and conceived by Gilles Jacob, celebrating the Cannes Film Festival's 60th anniversary. The film is comprised of a collection of 35...

Direction Youssef Chahine

Cast Nour El-Sherif · Laila Eloui · Mahmoud Hemida · Safia El-Amary

Plot The story is set in the 12th century in Arab-ruled Spanish province Andalusia, where famed philosopher Averroes (ebn roshd) is appointed grand judge by the caliph and his liberal court...

Direction Youssef Chahine

Cast Nabila Ebeid · Mahmoud Hemida · Hani Salama · Hanan Turk

Plot Adam and Hanan are deeply in love. She is Egyptian of modest origins, a journalist, and works in a campaign against a rich corrupt family. In Egypt, corruption is everywhere...

Direction Youssef Chahine

Cast Seif El Dine · Ezzat El Alaili · Soad Hosny · Mahmoud El-Meliguy

Plot Mysterious murder occurs in Cairo, the body was founded two months later. In the Pocket a picture of the victim "Mahmoud". The victim is a twin brother to Highly famous...

Direction Youssef Chahine

Cast Hussein Riad · Faten Hamama · Kamal Al-Shennawi · Marie Munib

Plot 1950 Cairo, Amin is a simple employee who lives with his family of three, his wife Zahira, son Nabil and daughter Hoda. Amin’s friend Mabrouk convinces Amin to invest his...

Direction Youssef Chahine

Cast Dalida · Mohsen Mohieddin · Chewikar · Hamdy Ahmed

Direction Youssef Chahine

Cast Latifa · Ahmed Bedir · Ahmed Wafik · Magda-El-Khatib

Plot A whimsical comedy with a touch of tragedy, Egyptian director Youssef Chahine's Silence...We're Rolling features famed Tunisian singer Latifah as Malak, a pop star whose career and home life are...

Direction Youssef Chahine

Cast Mahmoud El-Meliguy · Hoda Soltan · Shukry Sarhan · Soheir El-Morshidy

Plot In this Andre Gide adaptation, an activist is released after many years in prison and returns home, shaking up established relationships among his family members at the farm governed by...

Direction Youssef Chahine

Cast Mahmoud Hemida · Ahmed Yehia · Youssra · Yousra El Lozy

Plot Yehia, an Egyptian director from Alexandria goes to New York where he is reunited with Ginger, a women he dated forty years ago.

Direction Youssef Chahine

Cast Youssra · Youssef Chahine · Hussein Fahmy · Hesham Selim

Direction Youssef Chahine

Cast Hassan Fayek · Faten Hamama · Youssef Wahby

Plot Shihata is a poor clerk working at a rich woman’s corporation. When the husband of the woman divorces her for a third time, she is forced to marry and divorce...

Direction Youssef Chahine

Cast Tewfik El Dekn · Faten Hamama · Ferdoos Mohamed · Ahmed Ramzy

Plot The film takes place in a port in Alexandria and focuses on the lives of some sailors. Hamidah (Faten Hamama) works in a ship and plans to marry her cousin,...

Direction Youssef Chahine

Cast Yehia Chahine · Mahmoud El-Meliguy · Nader Galal · Faten Hamama

Plot Based on a novel by Grant Marshall “Nature Boy”, the film is the story of a young man from a peasant background who seeks change in his life and decides...

Direction Youssef Chahine

Cast Ahmed Mazhar · Mohamed Abdel Gawad · Tewfik El Dekn · Omar El-Hariri

Direction Youssef Chahine

Cast Tewfik El Dekn · Rayad El Kasabgy · Mariam Fakhr Eddine · Hamdi Geiss

Plot In a tribal society, governor Zaid decides to raise taxes on the people, and sends his men to kidnap women, and with time his strength increase , up to the...

Direction Youssef Chahine

Cast Ahmed Bedir · Safia El-Amary · Mahmoud Hemida · Yousef Ismail

Plot Three thousand years ago, Ram, son of an impoverished tribe living in an arid land, dreams of changing his way of life. He feels he is suffocating amid his boorish...

Direction Youssef Chahine

Cast Yousra El Lozy · Karim Kassem · Youssef Chahine

Direction Youssef Chahine

Cast Salah Kabil · Ali El Scherif · Mahmoud El-Meliguy · Seif El Dine

Plot Arab melodrama draws on familial strife just as much as the melodramas of classical Hollywood and popular Indian cinema, and here Chahine, like Minnelli and Visconti, expands the family melodrama...