Movies: Sanaa Younes

  • 2002
    11’09”01—September 11

    11’09”01—September 11 (2002)

    11’09”01—September 11

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    Filmmakers from all over the world provide short films – each of which is eleven minutes, nine seconds, and one frame of film in length – that offer differing perspectives on the 9/11 terrorist attacks....

    11’09”01—September 11
  • 1997
    Destiny

    Destiny (1997)

    Destiny

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    In the 12th century's Andalusia lives Ibn Rushd a prominent Islamic philosopher with his wife Zeinab and daughter Salma. The principality is ruled by Khalifa ElMansour who has two sons, ElNasser, an intellectual that likes Ibn Rush and is in love wit...

    Destiny
  • 1982
    An Egyptian Story

    An Egyptian Story (1982)

    An Egyptian Story

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    After we last see him in "Alexandria, Why?" Egyptian filmmaker Yehia Mourad is in his thirties, and successful in his work, he has grown distant from his wife and children and suffers a symbolic blockage of the heart while shooting the final scenes of...

    An Egyptian Story
  • 2005
    Italia's War

    Italia's War (2005)

    Italia's War

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    Yaseen is a lawyer who works for senior attorney, Kamaal. When he discovers that Kamal is involved in an illegal business with a tycoon, he gets publicly disbarred and loses his job. His fiance gets abducted to Italy when he tries to redeem himself, ...

    Italia's War
  • 1991
    Cairo as Told by Youssef Chahine

    Cairo as Told by Youssef Chahine (1991)

    Cairo as Told by Youssef Chahine

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    This concise masterpiece began as a commission by French TV for the news series Envoyé spécial. By filming Cairo with his unique sense of artistic digression, Chahine transformed this portrait of a city into the self-portrait of a filmmaker....

    Cairo as Told by Youssef Chahine
  • 1980
    Lock Up Your Daughters

    Lock Up Your Daughters (1980)

    Lock Up Your Daughters

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    Dr. Raafat faces challenges and difficulties in raising his three daughters, Fawzia (Sanaa Younis), Soso (Shreihan) and Nadia (Ijlal Zaki)....

    Lock Up Your Daughters
  • 1986
    The Sixth Day

    The Sixth Day (1986)

    The Sixth Day

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    Egypt, 1947: in the midst of a cholera outbreak. A washerwoman tries to take care of her family, while at the same time resisting the advances of a charming suitor who's half her age....

    The Sixth Day
  • 1989
    The World on a Dove's Wing

    The World on a Dove's Wing (1989)

    The World on a Dove's Wing

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    Reda, a taxi driver, drives the wealthy widow Imane who has just returned from abroad. She lets him drive her to run errands, and he helps her break her sweetheart, the engineer Hassan, out from a mental hospital....

    The World on a Dove's Wing
  • 1986
    The Dwarfs Are Coming

    The Dwarfs Are Coming (1986)

    The Dwarfs Are Coming

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    Shehab the advertising director, makes a successful ad campaign for the opening of a disco, making many young people come to the disco, causing a huge fire. Shocked by the accident,he travels to Alexandria where he meets Chico the dwarf and helps hi...

    The Dwarfs Are Coming
  • 1960
    Eshaet Hob

    Eshaet Hob (1960)

    Eshaet Hob

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    Hussein, a shy young man, is desperately in love with Samiha. However, Samiha is more interested in her singing and dancing cousin Lucy. Admiring Hussein greatly, Samiha's father attempts to help him and starts spreading the rumor that Hussein is hav...

    Eshaet Hob
  • 1985
    The Flood

    The Flood (1985)

    The Flood

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    A land inherited by the children from their father is worth one million pounds. Before selling it, the uncle offers a contract stating that he bought it from the father before his death. So what do children do?...

    The Flood
  • 1983
    Rayya and Sakina

    Rayya and Sakina (1983)

    Rayya and Sakina

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    In the 1920s, Azouz is a failed actor and his fiancée Folla works as a maid in the house of the chief of police in Alexandria, who's responsible for arresting serial killers Raya and Sakina. When all plans to arrest them by officer Fathi fail, Azzouz...

    Rayya and Sakina
  • 1990
    Kill my wife and I will salute you

    Kill my wife and I will salute you (1990)

    Kill my wife and I will salute you

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    Rustam rushes the death of his wealthy wife Tafida so he can inherit her. When Magdy and Mona kidnap Tafida and threaten to kill her if Rustom doesn't give them a large sum of money for their performing band, Rustum refuses and finds it an opportunit...

    Kill my wife and I will salute you
  • 1993
    Laughter, Joy, Work and Love

    Laughter, Joy, Work and Love (1993)

    Laughter, Joy, Work and Love

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    During 1968 , in the Heliopolis area, a group of school students live for fun and pleasure, and they get to know a young boxer named (Adham), who changes their views on life in many aspects. (Adham) falls in love with the prostitute (Aisha), and deci...

    Laughter, Joy, Work and Love
  • 1987
    Lack of Evidence

    Lack of Evidence (1987)

    Lack of Evidence

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    Ibrahim (Salah al-Saadani) abandons his wife Fawzia (Najla Fathi) and leaves the town and settles in Cairo, where he married Hassania (Aida Riad), Fawzia and Ibrahim deny his knowledge of her and claims that the detective is crazy and exploits that s...

    Lack of Evidence
  • 2004
    Alexandria... New York

    Alexandria... New York (2004)

    Alexandria... New York

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    An enthralling look at the relationship between America and the Arab World from an Arab perspective. It tells the story of Yehia, a renowned Egyptian filmmaker whose life has been shaped by a pair of disrupted love affairs, one with an American woman...

    Alexandria... New York
  • 1998
    Gabr Elkhawater

    Gabr Elkhawater (1998)

    Gabr Elkhawater

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    Nawal is a schizoid patient residing at a mental asylum in Alexandria. After her ex-husband takes away her only son. Dr. Shaker sympathizes with Nawal and decides to help her, but he soon discovers that the asylum's chief is planning to use the patie...

    Gabr Elkhawater
  • 2001
    Marriage by Presidential Decree

    Marriage by Presidential Decree (2001)

    Marriage by Presidential Decree

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    An employee in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs decides to marry a girl of a higher social status. At a moment of recklessness,he sends a wedding invitation to the President, and he responds to the invitation. Preparations are under way to receive the...

    Marriage by Presidential Decree
  • 2003
    Watch Out For Your Face

    Watch Out For Your Face (2003)

    Watch Out For Your Face

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    The film tells story about two childhood friends when their lives turn up side down by a businessman who wants to hire them to do things for him but they find out that he is one of their old friend took a different road in his life....

    Watch Out For Your Face
  • 1969
    Dala ilbanat

    Dala ilbanat (1969)

    Dala ilbanat

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    An intellectual car breaks down on the road near the house of the simple employee Anwar, so she turns to him to stay with him, and he agrees after insisting, while he was waiting for a visit from the Bashkatib who was going to marry his daughter, whi...

    Dala ilbanat