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 ...

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.

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 ...

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, ...

VENICE (Reuters) - The makers of an Egyptian film exploring the subjugation of women across the Middle East say they have won widespread praise as well as deeply personal criticism since the movie was ...

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.

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 ...

Prominent Egyptian producer Mohamed Hefzy is branching out into Saudi Arabia by setting up an outpost of his prolific Film Clinic shingle – which has six titles at Saudi's Red Sea Film Festival – in ...

The Egyptian Theatre was an original Park City screening room for Sundance and remained one for decades, but it was not tapped to show films this year. It was also essentially Sundance’s anchor on ...