Ahmed Mehrez

After the battle of Kfar Chouba in Lebanon in January 1975, Larbi Nasri, a young Algerian journalist, was caught in the whirlwind of events preceding the civil war. Linked to Maha, Hind, Raouf and Michel who surround Nahla, he witnesses the construction of the myth of Nahla, a singer adored by the Arab population. One day Nahla loses her voice on stage. The atmosphere of crisis that reigns around her is spreading like an infection. Larbi, fascinated, loses his footing and gets bogged down.

After we last see him in "Alexandria, Why?" Egyptian filmmaker Yehia Mourad is in his thirties, and successful in his work, he has grown distant from his wife and children and suffers a symbolic blockage of the heart while shooting the final scenes of his latest film. After being flown to England for evaluation, it's determined that Yehia must undergo emergency surgery. Fact and fiction blend seamlessly—with healthy doses of cleverly absurdist fantasy—as the film explores the various personalities and forces that have made Yehia (and Youssef Chahine) the man he has become.

Dünya Savaşı’nın sert koşullarının ortasında İskenderiye’de yaşayan genç Yahya, kendine fantezilerle dolu bir dünya yaratır. Hollywood’u saplantı haline getirip, ABD’de okuma hayalleri kurar. Ne var ki, âşık olup kalbi kırılınca, hayal dünyası yıkılır, savaşın gerçekleriyle yüzleşir.

Siyasi nedenlerle hapse giren aktivist Ali, 10 yıl içerde kaldıktan sonra evine döner. Ailesi, onun gelişini dört gözle bekler, Ali’nin onları büyük ağabeyi Tolba’nın zorbalığından kurtaracağını düşünür. Oysa karşılarında, idealizmini yitirmiş, hissiz ve uysal bir adam bulurlar.

As Major General Helmy and his son Sa'ad take part in the first Palestine War, his wife Horeya cheats on him with Kamal. When Helmy returns and finds out, he dies from the shock and his daughter Alia vows revenge on her mother.

Malak is a star singer who lives with her mother and her daughter, Loula, in her villa after her divorce. She falls in love with an opportunist called Lam'ey, so her daughter sets out to expose him with the help of her lover, a driver called Nasser, and the director, Ezz-ElDin who deeply loves Malak.

English literature lecturer Guy Pringle and his wife Harriet navigate the early years of WWII in Bucharest. They become involved in anti-fascist politics and are forced to flee as the war escalates, crossing paths with various characters along the way.