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A woman (Rabia Ben Abdallah) and her two daughters return to the female community on the island of Djerba from Tunis, where her husband works.

Meditations on corruption, fundamentalism, prostitution, homosexuality, and drugs in central Cairo. (imdb)

As Alia, the daughter of a beautiful servant Khedija, grows up in the Kings Palace at the end of the French colonial rule in Tunisia, she realizes the sexual favours required of her mother and other servants. (imdb)

Omrane (Ahmed Hafiane) is a dour man who makes his living supplying young maids to rich city folk. He gets the girls from poverty-stricken villages, promising their parents he will protect their chastity. Although this arrangement at first seems purely exploitative, it is gradually shown to be much more ambiguous. (variety.com)

A woman with AIDS faces prejudice in the conservative Egyptian society.

Noura and Lassad's delicate love story turns into a nightmare when Noura's husband Sofiane is unexpectedly released from prison, days before their divorce is finalised. ( bfi.org.uk )

After a life-altering event, Ola Abd ElSabour embarks on a journey of self-discovery and deals with the challenges of a new reality. Hend Sabry stars.

Two men team up to fight against British occupation in Egypt during the 1919 revolution. (imdb)

A mother refuses to surrender to the statues quo of the new reality of the Arab world and travels into the heart of darkness of ISIS to bring back her recruited son home.

Between light and darkness stands Olfa, a Tunisian woman and the mother of four daughters. One day, her two older daughters disappear. To fill in their absence, the filmmaker Kaouther Ben Hania invites professional actresses and invents a unique cinema experience that will lift the veil on Olfa and her daughters' life stories. An intimate journey of hope, rebellion, violence, transmission and sisterhood that will question the very foundations of our societies.

A young pharmacist from a middle class family hopes to get married before turning thirty. (imdb)

'El Gezira' is a film about a community of Upper Egypt residents living in El Gezira (the Island). They have their own set of rules, ethics and traditions. They also plant drugs and buy arms from Sudan. The first half follows Mansour as he takes control of his land and must deal with a band of other drug lords who are greedy to take control of the island. The second half of the film deals with the political conflict. (imdb)