As Not to Fly the Smoke

Desert Cat

March 1995 •Arabic

Youssef joins a United Nations disaster-fighting group dubbed the Desert Cat. When he discovers an alternative for petrol, an international gang tries to steal his discovery and recruits a girl to seduce him.

The Spider

May 2022 •Arabic

A dangerous drug dealer, who manages to manufacture new drugs, sells them, and falls into many problems and chases by the police.

The Beach House

November 2016 •Arabic

Four people from an Arab generation roaming over the ruins of ideologies, causes and virtues of their predecessors. It portrays their intellectual and emotional nonchalance about what is happening around them in their daily lives and relationships. In a house whose architecture is a sixties' experiment in mixing modern and Islamic architecture, a stone and concrete cube suspended over a rocky shore bashed by the waves of the Mediterranean, by famed Iraqi architect Refaat Chaderji, we spend a night with four characters whose non-stop conversations and peculiar actions reflect the void and chaos they are living in.

The Tale of Three Girls

January 1968 •Arabic

Three women each have their own ambitions and aspirations. The first dreams of fame and fortune and meets a rich, married man she attempts to court. The second is a secretary with designs on her boss, even though he too is married. Having learned from her friends' experiences, the third takes an altogether different path.

Excuse My French

January 2014 •Arabic

A Christian kid suddenly is forced to go to a public school after his father dies and because of a misunderstanding everyone thinks that he's a Muslim.

A Day and a Night

January 2020 •Arabic

The film revolves around an officer who examines some social issues, especially those related to the crises of the poor within moled el saida, and the problems they face.

Ali's Wedding

August 2017 •English

After a "white lie" which spirals out of control, a neurotic, naive and musically gifted Muslim cleric's eldest son must follow through with an arranged marriage, except he is madly in love with an Australian born-Lebanese girl.

The Fierce Man

July 1996 •Arabic

The brothers Aziz and Latif own a commercial company that employs an honorable accountant. They frame him with a charge that puts him in prison. They appoint a beggar to work in his place as a bet on what turns a person into a criminal. The accountant and the beggar discover the bet and plan revenge.

New Year's Eve

February 2020 •Arabic

The events of the film takes place on new year's eve of 2009 in the Red Sea at a resort near the city of Hurgahda inside the world of the wealthy where difficult situations and crises happen when they get together.

The Wedding of Zein

January 1976 •Arabic

Everyone in his village believes that Zein is a simpleton, a half-wit, an amiable buffoon. Thus, his braying laughter and public declarations of love for village maidens only win laughter rather than anger, beatings or worse. However, Haneen, a wandering Muslim holy man, perceives something more in this figure of fun: genuine piety and an inner radiance, marked by a powerful spiritual intelligence. One other person sees more in Zein than most do- the beautiful, pious and sedate young girl in the village.

Antar, The Fourth Grandson of Shaddad

June 2017 •Arabic

The grandson of Antar Abassi enters a fierce battle with Asad Alrijal, and tries to beat him with all his strength in order to win the heart of the most beautiful girl in the tribe.

The Treasure: Truth & Imagination

August 2017 •Arabic

The events revolve around three eras: the Pharaonic era, the Mamluk era, and the first half of the 20th century. The events revolve around corruption and the power of some clerics over the ages to power and false and bad dealings with the people, and how to involve religion in politics in order to obtain positions. That there are clerics deliberately coloring and counterfeiting in this period of time to be the strongest and maintain their positions.

A Natural Born Fool

June 2004 •Arabic

To make ends meet ahead of marrying his sweetheart, a man goes into the burglary business with her uncle — but his incompetence gets them into trouble.

48 hours in Israel

January 1998 •Arabic

Amal raises her brother Nasr after the death of her father and husband in an Israeli raid on Suez in 1956. Nasr grows up and joins the Egyptian intelligence and travels to Greece to obtain an important microfilm, but he disappears after being kidnapped. However, he manages to hide the microfilm. Amal decides to travel to Greece to search for her brother. Both the Egyptian intelligence and the Israeli intelligence (Mossad) monitor Amal to obtain the microfilm, and the events of the film continue.

Journey of a Lifetime

November 1974 •Arabic

A very conservative man meets a young passionate woman during his holiday in Alexandria . A journey that changed the course of his life

Goodnight

June 2017 •Arabic

The story of the film, in a different context of a successful and wealthy engineer named Hossam Khedive, but recently suffers from problems in his natural life resort to alternative life through a new device enters the world of dreams.

Badr

January 2001 •Arabic

I Have the Wallet

November 1978 •Arabic

After failing in his studies, Atoua turns to pickpocket. He meets his classmate Shukri, who is now the manager of a food company, he promises to find him a job but Atoua feels that he's lying. He steals his wallet and finds documents implicating Shukri and other people in embezzlement cases.

Abboud on the Border

July 1999 •Arabic

Abboud lives a reckless life with his two friends. He knows that he will not enter the army because he's an only child. But when his father marries another woman who gives birth to a boy, Abboud is forced to join the army in spite of being unfit, working at the border with his friends.

Tora Bora

January 2011 •Arabic

Tora Bora is a story of the journey of Abou Tareq and Om Tareq in their search for their youngest son Ahmed, who after being brainwashed by extremists, decides to leave Kuwait to join the the terrorist forces in Afghanistan. The elderly couple are not prepared for the suffering and darkness they encounter on their journey through the war-torn country. Their elder son, Tareq, with the aid of Pakistani intelligence, attempts to find his parents and his brainwashed brother. Tora Bora is a film about how the mistakes of one son can lead to hardships for an entire family in Arab/Muslim society.