Salwa Azzab

After living his whole life in Mazarita, Fazza' finally decides to turn his life around once and for all. He moves to Cairo to experience city life, to which he is unaccustomed, and goes through all of its difficulties and comedic contrasts.

Mansoura is an orphan girl who worked in an orphanage and defended the orphan girls against Abla Afarm, the director of the shelter, which prompted Afarm to fabricate a theft case against her and forced her to flee the village to Cairo to search for her uncle who ate up her share of her father’s inheritance nine years ago. In Cairo, Mansoura finds her uncle working as a poor man. A janitor for a building in the Manial Al-Rawda neighborhood.

“Lust” takes us into the lives of the inhabitants of a marginalised street in Alexandria, Egypt, before the revolution. Each character is isolated in their fierce, yet fragile dreams, including Umm Shooq, who has deserted her wealthy family to marry the man she loves. She has settled into a life of poverty when an unexpected challenge forces her to make the most difficult decision of her life. (from dohafilminstitute.com)

A young man, who has little experience in life and looks at everything around him from one perspective, goes through a one-day journey that makes him question all his notions.

Based on Sonallah Ibrahim's celebrated novel, "Zaat" explores the social and political winds of change in Egypt starting from 1952, when the main character "Zaat" was born, all the way up to the present day.