During President Nasser's reign, Cairo was a place of quirky chaos, suspicion and mistrust, full of sharp jokes and overpriced dreams. The post office only delivers recruitment and scholarship letters. Surprisingly, Elizabeth from the capital of classical music sends a letter to Ahmed, a stubborn pianist. His family loves football. Nobody wants a pianist or a writer in the family.
Amir El-Masry
Valerie Pachner
Karim Kassem
Ahmed ElAzaar
Nelly Karim
Sabry Fawaz
Ahmed Kamal
Khaled Mokhtar
Johannes Krisch
During President Nasser's reign, Cairo was a place of quirky chaos, suspicion and mistrust, full of sharp jokes and overpriced dreams. The post office only delivers recruitment and scholarship letters. Surprisingly, Elizabeth from the capital of classical music sends a letter to Ahmed, a stubborn pianist. His family loves football. Nobody wants a pianist or a writer in the family.
A drama set in the American South, where a precocious, troubled girl finds a safe haven in the music and movement of Elvis Presley.
Ghost is an ideological musician and leader of a jazz band who would rather play his blues in the park to the birds than compromise himself. His peripatetic performances lead him to cross paths with a singer, while his masculinity is thrown into question following a violent brawl.
A famous pianist at the twilight of his career meets a free-spirited music critic who soon becomes his rock as his mental state deteriorates.
Talented but self-centered trumpeter Bleek Gilliam is obsessed with his music and indecisiveness about his girlfriends Indigo and Clarke. But when he is forced to come to the aid of his manager and childhood friend, Bleek finds his world more fragile than he ever imagined.
A talented young singer and aspiring songwriter’s Christian faith and family ties are tested when she defies her worship-pastor father and pursues pop-music stardom in GRACE UNPLUGGED, a moving and inspiring new film that explores the true meaning of success.
Their love of dance, and their friendship, is challenged for two high school girls when one is diagnosed with cancer.
In the 12th century's Andalusia lives Ibn Rushd a prominent Islamic philosopher with his wife Zeinab and daughter Salma. The principality is ruled by Khalifa ElMansour who has two sons, ElNasser, an intellectual that likes Ibn Rush and is in love with his daughter Salma. The younger son Abdallah is more into dancing and poetry, spending most of his times with the gypsy family and getting the daughter pregnant. The Khalifa is depending on the extremists to build his army granting them more power which they use to combat artists and philosophers. The extremists succeed in recruiting Abd Allah and train him to kill his father. Events go on where Marawan, the gypsy singer, is killed and Ibn Rushd's books are burnt. Adapted from the real life of Ibn Rushd AlMasir is Chahine's statement against extremism.
In 1950s Alabama, the owner of the Honeydripper juke joint finds his business dropping off and against his better judgment, hires a young electric guitarist in a last ditch effort to draw crowds during harvest time.
