From Raiders of the Lost Ark to The Mummy, these movies will transport you down the Nile and thousands of years into the past ...

The prolific filmmaker, the focus of a retrospective at IFFR 2026, discussed his career and craft during a Rotterdam event.

At this year’s Cairo Intl. Film Festival, Egyptian filmmakers arrive not just to premiere their films, but to stake a claim in the country’s cinematic future. Once the beating heart of Arab cinema, ...

Abdel Sayed's 1991 classic Kit Kat, about an unruly blind man from the working-class Cairo neighbourhood, is one of Egypt's most loved movies ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Before a popular revolt ousted Egypt's autocratic president this year, it seemed certain that a film about the desperation of Cairo's poor would never reach the country's cinemas.

Egyptian box office may be down this summer (the season’s 13 new offerings, produced at a sum of $35 million, have earned just $22 million so far), but filmmakers from the region have found a formula ...

Just over a year after it was pulled as the opening short film of the 2024 edition of Egypt’s El Gouna Film Festival by the country’s censorship board, The Last Miracle had been cleared to screen at ...

A former actress (last seen in 2006’s “Yacoubian Building”), Younes manages leading Egyptian production company Al-Arabia, overseeing between 15-20 Egyptian films a year. The company (founded by her ...

Indian director and actress Nandita Das and head of the El Gouna jury presents the Golden Star to Egyptian producer Abdelrahman Amin for 'Ghost Trail' Getty Images The seventh edition of Egypt’s El ...

Egypt, which is home to the Middle East and North Africa’s biggest film industry, will not participate in the Best International Film Oscar race this year. According to Egyptian media reports, ...