Youssef Chahine

Two strangers try to solve a mystery that revolves around both of their tragic pasts. At the heart of the mystery lies a mystic board with an ...

Six strong-willed women whose adventurous streak changed the face of film industry in early twentieth century Egypt – a time when the country ...

A documentary that focuses on Abbas Kiarostami’s cinematic philosophy talking to himself and other figures, and also seeks the opinion ...

A “Cinéma, de notre temps” series episode directed by French film critic Jean-Louis Comolli on the Egyptian director Youssef Chahine.

This concise masterpiece began as a commission by French TV for the news series Envoyé spécial. By filming Cairo with his unique sense of ...

Set in 1987 against the backdrop of a hunger strike by the Egyptian film industry, Chahine himself steps in to play Yehia, the famed Egyptian ...

Trio is a cinematic series of filmed portraits that shows, in a single large, fixed and silent shot of 3 minutes and 20 seconds, three people ...

Focusing on key Arab films produced in the last 20 years. Férid Boughedir traces the development of the film-makers’ concern to produce ...

Egypt, 1947: in the midst of a cholera outbreak. A washerwoman tries to take care of her family, while at the same time resisting the advances of ...

Reel 14 of Gérard Courant’s on-going Cinematon series.