Short Movies

This concise masterpiece by famed Egyptian filmmaker Youssef Chahine began as a commission by French television. Using his unique sense of artistic digression, Chahine transforms this portrait of a city into a self-portrait of a filmmaker. The film was banned in Egypt for its realistic portrayal of Cairo.

Euroman is happy. His wealthy father and kind mother are proud of him. The bank loves him. He loves stylish clothes, fancy restaurants and cyber dates. He is running his own business, an innovative, environmental friendly and awarded start-up company. But the coffee is over and the noisy demonstration disturbs him while he is having his beard taken care of by an elegant barber. All these pilling up to a reunion with his friends, the Euromen.

A woman is searching aggressively for her lost apartment keys. During her search, she is visited by some unsavory memories she has been repressing.

In a world controlled and timed by the light, a common man has a plan that could change the destiny.

In a fancy Parisian Café, an uptight businessman discovers he forgot to bring his wallet and bides his time by ordering more coffee.

A young couple struggles at saving their marriage, after receiving bad news about the condition of their unborn child

A simple employee who suffers from some financial difficulties, but in front of him and his family everything is easy in the moment they eat "The Watermelon" in comfort.

The enemy attacked the country and war began. A pair of Soldier boots was being putting on by a man who are invisible for audience. The boots get ready to go fight against the enemy, but when the boots saw the other fragment boots in the battlefield. They refused to go forward. The man puts off the boots and step forward to the front fighting with the enemy.

One winter evening, on a snowy weather, a woman is going to her job. The surroundings are hostile, the labor-backbreaking. And a window doesn't close anymore : it snows inside the work space. The chore place becomes a land of adventures...

A tale of a young man whose recent creative work produces a life of crime and romance, both of which have their own shortcomings.

Abel lives in the winter and Apolline lives in the summer. Isolated in their 'natures', they never met each other. They are not even supposed to meet. So when Abel crosses the border and discovers Apolline, curiosity is overwhelming.

Washingtonia is the only palm tree that its heart is not devoured by the red beetle. Because it's heart is small and dry and no one likes small and dry hearts.

Michalis has a plan and awaits. His father leaves. Now he is alone with a knife, his mother, his sister and his brother.

Two lonely people at opposite chapters of life accidentally meet on a busy summer day in a Cairo taxi. Frail old Shawky and bubbly young Doaa are both caught up in their busy routines as their race through the city evolves into a journey of self-discovery that reconnects them to life.

We don't know when the isolation and misery came to Alexandria! , In one day, and one neighborhood, five different characters live a completely complex life, they trying their best to get rid of this tangle of complex!

At the end of 1945, a young boy is taken to a brothel by his uncle to become a man. Through the evening's bittersweet encounters, he discovers the adult world in all its cruelty.

Crocodile-men, a mystic river, some kids that like fishing and a war that ends share the same Colombian land; Bojaya. In this place, villagers have strange beliefs and celebrate the "Novenario" death ritual. This might be the beginning of a very long story, where spirits and humans meet each other to learn what is there to life after the end of war.

Haunted by the memories of his childhood in Baghdad, Abdullah retreats into his deep past. Leilah seeks one last moment of connection with her father before he no longer remembers who she is.

Under the spell of mass entertainment on the high seas.

An adolescent boy attempts to untangle his memories of a mysterious infestation, the unravelling of his father, and the little creatures inside us all.

An introverted young girl discovers a gateway to a parallel world, in which she finds comfort and ease for her feeling of guilt.

"What is the one thing you wish was not forbidden?," Aiesha posts the controversial question in a close Facebook group for her burqa-wearing peers. Aiesha, who is nicknamed among her peers as the fair eyed haori, meets her friend Sally at the mall shortly after the post. Under her burka, she hides more than her body and face, and during the seemingly ordinary shopping trip, she discovers that what she hates most about her life lays right over her eyes.

It is barely dawn when Gregor is woken up by the sound of the police knocking on his door. They need to use his balcony to access the apartment of his neighbor, whom no one has heard from for almost two years. The discovery of a rotting corpse will haunt Gregor for an entire day, which will prove crucial for the next stage of his life. Once night falls, it will no longer be possible to go back.