Sons of Egypt
Ahmed hopes to marry Dawlat, the sister of his friend, but because of the social and financial gulf between them, her father refuses to approve the match. Ahmed sends him a letter formally asking for Dawlat's hand in mar
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Ahmed hopes to marry Dawlat, the sister of his friend, but because of the social and financial gulf between them, her father refuses to approve the match. Ahmed sends him a letter formally asking for Dawlat's hand in mar
Ninety years after the Frenkel brothers created the animated character Mishmish Effendi, the Egyptian Mickey Mouse, he returns to the big screen to tell the illustrious story of the Jewish community in Egypt.
Exodus to Egypt
Souls Of Cairo.
Jesse Lerner’s experimental film The American Egypt (2001) focuses on the liberal history of the Yucatán Peninsula, Mexico, which, in addition to having had separatist aspirations, held one of the first socialist governm
A young woman abandons her father's home due to misconduct in her family environment and is thrown into a life of pleasures for a long time. Unexpectedly, a heavenly hand is sent to her life.
A stone’s throw from the iconic Cheops pyramids, another famous man-made creation rises, towering over the Giza Plateau - The Grand Egyptian Museum. The construction of this ultra-modern building of unprecedented proport
A short by Alexander Kluge.
Egyptians were famed for their extravagant building techniques and extraordinary gods, but what about the ordinary citizens? How did they lead their day to day lives? What did they do for entertainment? Did they believe
A portrait of the City of the Dead, an inhabited cemetery just outside of Cairo and on the fringes of the city’s public dumping ground, like a living reproach and a bad conscience. Starting from the City of the Dead, the
By decoding ancient hieroglyphic texts, Jean-François Champollion gave voice to an enigmatic civilization, but behind his legendary feat is a mysterious brother who made it possible. The recent discovery of correspondenc
The graphic art of ancient Egypt is very familiar to us, since it was so widely used. We find extraordinary graphic representations on sarcophagi, papyrus scrolls, the walls of tombs and other buildings. They are testimo
A documentary that captures fragments of the lives of the Egyptian Jewish community in the first half of the twentieth century until their second grand exodus after the tripartite attack of 1956. An attempt to understand
American archeologists have found a new tomb in the desert valley. This is the first find of this magnitude since King Tutankhamun's tomb was uncovered in 1922, according to Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities. Called
Muharram falls in love with a Japanese diplomat named Sakura, they get married and have twins. But she returns to Japan with the kids without his knowledge because of the difficult living conditions. Seven years later,
Follows archaeologists working on a 4,000-year-old pyramid containing a burial chamber, still apparently sealed. As light enters the tomb for the first time, the artifacts contained within reveal a gripping detective sto
A feature length documentary film following one man's search for random Americans concerned about an Islamic threat and offering them a free trip to Egypt.
The story of Joseph's life from childhood to going to Egypt and meeting his father Jacob again.
A languid educational film about ancient Egypt, shot in 28mm, was sold through the Pathé catalogue for home screenings at the beginning of the twentieth century.
Marja tries to make ends meet by taking night shifts in a newspaper delivery service, apparently mostly carried out by foreigners. During the day, she sleeps and strives to raise her little daughter as best as she can. A