CHAHINE: THE RESTORATION PROJECT
from
12 September 2018
UNTIL
22 September 2018
"Youssef Chahine: The Restoration Project" 20 restored classics by Youssef Chahine will be screened for the first time over 10 days, from the 12th to the 22nd of September. The restoration project is done in celebration of the 10th anniversary of Chahine's passing by Misr International Films in collaboration with Egyptian and European partners to honor his legacy, giving the films a new life and bringing them back to the big screen. The screenings will be accompanied by a parallel program of workshops, lectures and talks which will be announced soon.
PROGRAM FILMS
BABA AMIN / DADDY AMIN
1950 Cairo, Amin is a simple employee who lives with his family of three, his wife Zahira, son Nabil...
AL AKHAR / THE OTHER
Adam and Hanan are deeply in love. She is Egyptian of modest origins, a journalist, and works in a c...
AL WEDAA YA BONAPARTE / ADIEU BONAPARTE
In 1978, Napoleon lands his army in Egypt, defeats the Mameluke warlords (the remnants of Ottoman ru...
WADAAT HOBBAK / FAREWELL MY LOVE
The film contains one of the most inventive duets in the history of Egyptian cinema. Here we find F...
SAYEDET EL KITAR/ LADY ON A TRAIN
A traditional popular melodrama, musical revolving around a singer and her wealthy husband who is de...
SERAA FIL WADI / THE BLAZING SUN
Essam (Omar Sharif) is a young bedouin who discovers the tyranny of the king of his tribe and decide...
AL MOHAGER / THE EMIGRANT
Ram is intent on leaving his family to travel in search of knowledge and enlightenment. His interest...
AL MASSIR / DESTINY
Alarmed by the rise of religious fundamentalism in Egypt in the 1990’s Chahine created an historic e...
ENTA HABIBI / MY ONE AND ONLY LOVE
Out of economic necessity, two Cairo families decide to marry their children. But Farid and Yasmina ...
SERAA FIL MINA / DARK WATERS
A depiction of the problems workers and fishermen face against big business operatives in the port ...
ISKINDEREYA LEH / ALEXANDRIA WHY
Alexandria, Why? Marked a radical, newly introspective turn in Chahine’s active career, a sharp dep...
ALEXANDRIA AGAIN AND FOREVER
The third installment in Chahine’s quartet of autobiographical films finds the director’s work stal...
ENNASSER SALAHELDDINE / SALADIN
An early commentary on the manipulation of religion: The film presents a fictional account of the re...
EL ARD / THE LAND
One of Chahine’s most enduring classics, the Land details the struggle of a group of peasant farmers...
BAB EL HADID/CAIRO STATION
"Chahine himself stars in this melodrama of poverty and sexual frustration that shocked Arab audienc...
AL YOM EL SADES / THE SIXTH DAY
Based on the novel by Andree Chedid, the film explores a period in the British colonialized Egypt du...
AWDET EL IBN EL DAL / RETURN OF THE PRODIGAL SON
The story is adapted from a novel by Andre Gide and depicts a family going through a fatal crisis. A...
FAGR YOM GUEDID / DAWN OF A NEW DAY
The story of an older upper – class Egyptian woman who falls in love with a young working – class st...