Little Dreams
Gharib recalls his entire life, which intersects what Suez has measured over two centuries through triple aggression and the defeat of 1967, where we remember the conditions in which his parents met, and the death of his father when he was a member of the popular resistance at the time of the tripartite aggression. To study and work in the printing press with Usta (Salah), the owner of the house where Gharib lives with his mother.
Khaled El Hagar
Director
Casts & Crew
Also Directed by Khaled El Hagar
Hassan and Fatma are a couple, living and working in a farm of wealthy owner Mourad. In the first days of the Jan 25th revolution, Ali seizes a security breach to break out of jail and runs to his cousin Hassan, for shelter. The latter takes him in but soon after, Mourad discovers the love that Fatma and Ali shared, years ago. This romantic history, fuelled by mounting sexual frustration, will come back to haunt all those involved.
A couple's relationship experiences some ups and downs as the societal pressures put upon them get increasingly burdensome.
The story of three half sisters who share a dad and have three different mothers: they meet each other for the very first time after the death of their father to discover they all have emotional problems. The eldest sister Nada is a very touchy and passionate girl who is almost an introvert. She always feels longing for the right man who would maker her life happy and sound. As for the second sister, Ghada, she has had a very tough life as child. Living with her mom alone in Alexandria, she was raised to hate all male sex because of her father's bad habits. The baby-sister Ro'aya, on the other hand, is brought up in England in a very practical way. She works as university professor. When the three of them unite, they face various kinds of problems.
“Lust” takes us into the lives of the inhabitants of a marginalised street in Alexandria, Egypt, before the revolution. Each character is isolated in their fierce, yet fragile dreams, including Umm Shooq, who has deserted her wealthy family to marry the man she loves. She has settled into a life of poverty when an unexpected challenge forces her to make the most difficult decision of her life. (from dohafilminstitute.com)
Kamel Helmy is a famous writer, in the late 1940s, living in Cairo, in the famous Imobilia building, after the death of his wife and the departure of his children from home. He suffers from loneliness and schizophrenia. One day he calls a girl named Samah who had befriended Facebook in an attempt to ease his isolation.
"Nahed" (Nabila Ebeid) as the Greedy Mother fight over "Dina" (Arwa) the innocent talent who falls in love with "Nader" (Khaled Abol Naga) as a Music Talent Hunter & Famous icon/Director & shatters her Family apart when she becomes a big success.
Ali is a young Egyptian screenwriter determined to succeed in London, where he has been a student. He loves the artistic and political freedom, the colours, the music, the individualism. But he has little money, his student visa is about to expire and he has been thrown out of his lodgings. And so Ali moves in with a succession of eccentric and colourful London flatmates: Mark, a photographer with a very individual style, Linda, a young, blonde, very sexy model and Marilyn Monroe impersonator, and Miss Stevenson who is convinced that Ali is the reincarnation of her long dead Egyptian lover.
