Yousra – MRQE

Omaret yakobean

Sun, 24 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Cairo: a 70-year-old building of once-luxury flats with tenements on the roof. Zika, an aging libertine, feuds with his sister. Pius Haj Azzam takes a second wife, in secret, to satisfy sexual drive within religious bounds. Bothayna, poor and beautiful, supports her family, wanting to do so with dignity intact. Her former fiancé, Taha, the janitor’s son, humiliated by the police, turns to fundamentalism. Hatem, a gay editor, seduces and corrupts a young man from the sticks. Two brothers, Copts, one a tailor and one Zika’s factotum, connive for property. Allah is on most everyone’s lips, and corruption is in their hearts.

Marcides

Sat, 23 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Nubi spent a period of his life in a mental hospital after his father deposited him unjustly. He is not crazy, but his father donated all he had to the Communist Party, which was adhering to its principles. The government then placed the family property under guard. Nubian lives with his mother Rose and discover amazing facts, including that his father, who bears his name is not his real father, but his mother gave birth to her brown friend, and then discovered that his brother missed the family and no one knows his place but joined the extremist group.

Alexandrie… New York

Mon, 01 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

An enthralling look at the relationship between America and the Arab World from an Arab perspective. It tells the story of Yehia, a renowned Egyptian filmmaker whose life has been shaped by a pair of disrupted love affairs, one with an American woman named Ginger, the other with America itself.

Al-mohager

Thu, 02 Oct 2025 04:00:00 +0000

The biblical tale of Joseph is told from an Egyptian perspective in this interesting character study. In this film, Joseph is called Ram. Ram, tired of his family’s backward superstitious life, and tired of being picked on by his brothers, wants to go to Egypt to study agriculture. His brothers travel with him across Sinai, but then suddenly sell him to Ozir, an Egyptian who works for a Theban military leader, Amihar. Amihar is impressed by Ram’s drive and personal charm and so grants Ram some desolate land outside the capital. Ram soon finds himself a pawn in the political and sexual games between Amihar and his wife Simihit, a high priestess of the Cult of Amun.

Iskanderija, kaman oue kaman

Sat, 13 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

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 handsome actor he discovered and cast as his alter-ego in parts one and two of The Alexandria Trilogy, Yehia pressures Amr to star in various film projects that change even as Yehia’s perception of the young actor begins to change. He first casts Amr as Hamlet, which the actor deems too demanding for his talents, then as the lead in a musical biopic of demigod Alexander the Great, who founded the city of Alexandria in 332 B.C.

La Croce dalle sette pietre

Mon, 25 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Protagonist Mahmoud is a high school teacher, who lives with his entire family in a tiny apartment. The landlord is desperately trying to force them out to the point of enlisting the devils help. Like Al-Ins wal Djinn, the films opening scenes establish a sense of tension that continues to mount until, for some reason, a goat shoots a star-shaped laser out of its forehead, and everything quickly falls apart. Furniture spontaneously combusts, an invisible presence settles in Mahmouds apartment, and the devil rapes his wife and she thinks its an earthquake. Things reach their peak when, for the second time on this list, Yousra is drenched in actual chicken blood.

Hadduta misrija

Sat, 30 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

After we last see him in “Alexandria, Why?” Egyptian filmmaker Yehia Mourad is in his thirties, and successful in his work, he has grown distant from his wife and children and suers a symbolic blockage of the heart while shooting the final scenes of his latest film. After being flown to England for evaluation, it’s determined that Yehia must undergo emergency surgery. Fact and fiction blend seamlesslywith healthy doses of cleverly absurdist fantasyas the film explores the various personalities and forces that have made Yehia (and Youssef Chahine) the man he has become.