Eagles of the Republic
The most famous actor in Egypt, George Fahmy (Fares Fares), gets an offer he’d better not refuse: playing President al-Sisi in a hagiographic biopic. The final entry in the director’s…
Boy from Heaven
Young Adam (Tawfeek Barhom), the son of a fisherman, goes to the prestigious Al-Azhar University in Cairo to study, but is soon drawn into a murder investigation. The director’s best…
Westworld
What became an exciting thriller by Michael Crichton in 1973 was turned into a far more ambitious but also convoluted TV series, set in the 2050s where a corporation is…
The Nile Hilton Incident
Cairo, 2011; a young singer is found murdered in a hotel room and a police officer, Major Noredin Mustafa (Fares Fares), looks into the case that turns out to have…
Rogue One
Jyn Erso (Felicity Jones) becomes involved with the Rebel Alliance and its quest to steal the blueprint for the Death Star; her father deliberately hid a fatal flaw inside this…