Ikram Ezzo

In the blasting heat of a Friday afternoon in Cairo, a group of people – among them a movie star, a thief, a madman, a cook and a pregnant woman – find themselves trapped in an elevator for 12 hours.

El Murra El Maghoula

Loyal to her husband suffers from a weak personality due to strict upbringing, which exposes her to falling into the trap of her husband’s friend. There is another husband who falls in love with the maid and wants to get close to her very much, but he is afraid for his reputation, so he treats her very harshly and harasses her. There is the shy young man who falls in love with her. He falls in love with his neighbor, but she is not convinced by him because of his great shyness.

The everyday lives, loves and dreams of a slightly kooky modern middle-class Egyptian family in the early 1960's.

When her father dies, the devastated Samira decides to take revenge on his murderers after she discovers that he was killed by a gang. She searches her father's papers until she finds incriminating evidence. The gang's leader sends one of his men, Hussein, to get it.

Ashour is a polygamist who marries for the tenth time the widow, Azhar, which angers his other wives. As he prepares to take yet another wife called Rasmia, he discovers that Rasmia is the daughter of his first ex-wife, Nafisa, which turns his life upside down.

Dr. Raafat does not care about his young wife, Samiha, as much as he cares about reading and following the works of the famous novelist, the monk of thought. So the wife decides to search for the monk himself for the secret of his popularity and his possession of all her husband’s senses, but soon she, in turn, becomes one of his enthusiastic students, and when she fails to flirt with him and seduce him, she decides to start... To write a story inspired by her life.

This film, inspired by Naguib Mahfouz' The thief and the dogs, tells the story of Mahran, a thief who quickly ascends to be the head of his gang. However, his second in command conspires against Mahran to take his position and his wife. After his prison term, Mahran is thirsty for revenge. But being chased by the police and by his new enemies destines him to a tragic life in hiding.