Egypt returns to Cannes with Morad Mostafa’s Aisha Can’t Fly Away. It is presented in Un Certain Regard at the 78th Cannes Film Festival. This brutal thriller explores Cairo’s underworld. It centres on a young Somali caretaker, Aisha, living in the marginalized neighbourhood of Ain Shams, home to a large community of African migrants. The …
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Egyptian film-maker Adel Ahmed Yehia won the Best Director award at the 9th Zawya Short Film Festival in Cairo for his short film Abu Judy. The festival took place from March 12th to 26th. Produced by Red Star Films and Hawadeet Films, the film is about a 10-year-old girl who often goes to work with …
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After the success of its two previous seasons, the Egyptian series Kamel El-Adad returns during Ramadan 2025 on the Shahid platform. This comedy series, written by Youssr Taher and Rana Abu Al Rish, is about a reconstituted family: the personal problems facing Laila and Ahmed and the education of their respective children. This 3rd season, …
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Egyptian video-on-demand platform WATCH IT has announced the 14 new shows which will be broadcast during this year’s Ramadan. Among the programmes is a drama series directed by Mahmoud Abdel Tawab, El Sharnaka, and a comedy series Okbal Andkom, created by Hassan El Raddad and Amy Samir Ghanem. In addition to these two, other titles …
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MAD Solutions’ film sales division, MAD World, has secured the international rights to Mohamed Rashad’s Egyptian thriller,The Settlement. The Settlement follows two brothers – troublemaker Hossam, 23, and his brother Maro, 12 – living in a marginalized community in Alexandria. When their father is killed in an accident at work, the local factory offers them …
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Hicham El Jebbari’s Ana Machi Ana is the first Moroccan feature to be dubbed into Egyptian Arabic and distributed in Egyptian cinemas. Interviewed by the online magazine 360, the director said he is: “very proud of this initiative, a first for a Moroccan film. By dubbing Ana Machi Ana into Egyptian Arabic we wanted to …
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The 7th El Gouna Film Festival was held from October 24th to November 1st. This year the event, which showcases new voices in world cinema, offered 83 films from 48 countries divided into 5 categories – including the Fiction Feature Film Competition and the Documentary Film Competition. On the fiction side, the films included Algiers …
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