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 ...

Egypt’s El Gouna Film Festival got underway on Thursday amid calls for peace in the region as well as claims of censorship after an Egyptian short work with a Palestine-related subtext was pulled as ...

The upcoming film Al Kesas, starring Nelly Karim and Amir El-Masry, is set to hit Egyptian cinemas on June 17, and one of the reasons audiences are already excited is that it’s set in 1967, taking us ...

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.

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 ...

CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's censorship office gave permission on Wednesday for the screening of a historical documentary about the country's Jewish community, the director said, following a delay caused ...

Filmmakers Nada Riyadh and Ayman El Amir spent so much time following an all-girl theatre troupe in a remote Egyptian village that at one point someone tried to sell them a house. "He thought we were ...

The Cairo Intl. Film Festival opened this year not by looking outward, but inward, highlighting the expansive archive of Egyptian classics undergoing restoration. During the ceremony, audiences were ...

Organised by NGO Independent Shabab Foundation (ISF) with support from numerous agencies, the festival is the brainchild of Egyptian screenwriter and actor Sayed Fouad – currently serving as its ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 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 ...

Throwing rocks in the sea, splashing in the Nile, all under the Egyptian sun, these are the simple and raw moments of ...