Youssef Chahine
Youssef Chahine (born in Alexandria, Egypt, 1926) started studying in a friars' school and then turned to Victoria College until High School Certificate. After one year at the University of Alexandria, he moved to the U.S. and spent two years at the Pasadena Play House, taking... Read full bio →
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Iskanderija, kaman oue kaman
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".
Hadduta misrija
During heart surgery, a filmmaker imagines his childhood self on trial for killing his adult self, revealing his ambitions, identity struggles, and ties to revolutionary Egypt.
Bab el hadid
A newspaper salesman at the train station in Cairo develops an unhealthy obsession with a woman who sells refreshments.