Youssef Chahine

Freed after spending years in prison, an activist's homecoming turns into a dark affair as his disillusion clashes with his family's expectations. Demonstrating Chahine’s eclecticism, ...

Set shortly before and during the Six Day War in June of 1967, The Sparrow follows a young police officer stationed in a small village in Upper Egypt whose inhabitants suffer from the ...

The construction of the Aswan dam as seen by those who took part in it: engineers, workers, Egyptians, and Soviets.