Movies: Ahmed Al Fishawy

Three women seek justice due to the difficult daily situation which sexual harassment causes in the streets of Cairo, Egypt....

Four brothers committing crimes with a promise among them to stop someday. When a deal goes south, the older brother says it's enough, but the other three disagree and recklessly do business with a wanted crime lord....

Based on the Ayyat train accident that killed 361 in 2002, this ensemble drama delves into the intense human stories of the passengers in a third-class coach car during the hour and a half before the crash....

Three years after the events of the first film, the four brothers are trying in various ways to preserve the covenant they made to themselves to stay away from a life of theft and crime, but one event in their lives changes all that, and introduces t...

During a bloody night, a young man and his lover are struggling, not to get to the hospital, but to escape and survive....

A false witness implicates many innocent people in prison, but his life takes an unexpected turn when he wakes up every day to find himself accused of a crime he didn't commit. Transforming from a false witness to an unjustly accused victim, he seeks...

Set in 1987 against the backdrop of a hunger strike by the Egyptian film industry, Chahine himself steps in to play Yehia, the famed Egyptian director whose life is chronicled in "Alexandria, Why?" and "An Egyptian Story". Obsessed with Amr, the hand...

After a clash between a group of demonstrators and the security forces, one of the bodies of this clash is returned to the morgue with seven other bodies. The forensic doctor, Yassin Al-Manstarli, writes his medical report after examining the body an...

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 t...

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

The story follows a young man who gets to know a girl and causes her many problems. But when he's exposed to an accident, his life takes a drastic turn....

The sudden death of Michael Jackson sends a former King of Pop devotee — now a young imam — into a tailspin, in this tender and comedic film from Egyptian filmmaker Amr Salama....

In a context of comedy and romance, Hassan and Malak live in a poor neighborhood whose people feed on chicken legs and skeletons. The film deals with the issue of high prices, monopoly, and the greed of merchants and the resulting difficulties of liv...

Zay el naharda is a movie starring Basma, Rania Chahine, and Mahmoud El-Bezzawy. History literally repeats itself when May meets and falls in love with a passionate young actor, only months after the tragic death of her first fiancée. All the 'signs'...

Sayed Rahba, who lives in a working-class neighborhood, imposes his grip and control on the area, taking advantage of his intelligence and courage. However, when he gets exposed to a painful accident, his condition soon changes completely....

A young man wants to be a professional Kung-Fu player but figures out that the game is not popular in Egypt. He meets a fortuneteller who helps him to read and hear other’s thoughts....

A wife gives birth to sextuplets, forcing the husband to sell three of their children due to poverty. When the wife finds out, she decides to leave her husband and travel abroad and many conflicts arise between siblings in the future....

Based on a What if? dialectic, women are taking the role and position of men in the society. We see the stories of some couples with the woman being patriarchal and in control. Under the new fictional situation, a lot is revealed about relationships....

Moataz, is a happy-go-lucky guy who leads a life around his friends. After his mother moves in, they argue, and his luck is put to the test. She puts a curse on him that sends misfortune his way, turning his life upside down. Will he be able to break...

The stories of five men and women connected together by romantic relationships, and how they get influenced by the social transformations of the past few years....