Naguib Mahfouz Festival

from

15 February 2023

UNTIL

02 March 2023

 
In partnership with Diwan Publishing, the Naguib Mahfouz Project and Rizo Masr, we are thrilled to present the Naguib Mahfouz film program at Zawya. The program celebrates Mahfouz’s legacy, the first Arab author to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1988 and whose name is synonymous with Arab Literature. In addition to Mahfouz’s literary achievements which encompassed a total of 34 novels and more than 300 short stories, Mahfouz played a pivotal role in enriching Egyptian cinema with his screenplays and adaptations of his novels into some of the most notable films in Egyptian cinema throughout the 50s and 60s.
The program showcases 7 narrative features of classical Egyptian cinema, 5 of which are adaptations from Mahfouz’s novels, and two films of his screenplay.
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PROGRAM FILMS

Gossip Over the Nile
1971 Hussein Kamal ، Mohamed Abdelaziz Arabic Subtitled to english +18

Anis Zaki is an employee who's always stoned from the drugs he takes. He meets the actor Rajab Al-Qa...

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I'm Free
1959 Salah Abu Seif Arabic Subtitled to english GP

A self-willed young woman has to bear the impositions of her aunt and her aunt's husband until she g...

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Beginning and End
1959 Salah Abu Seif ، Ismail Hassan Arabic Subtitled to english +12

The film portrays the lives of the members of an Egyptian family; three brothers, their sister Nefee...

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Deprivation Well
1969 Kamal El Sheikh ، Mostafa Gamal El Din Arabic Subtitled to english +18

Nahid suffers from double personality disorder. In the day she lives with her personality, and at ni...

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The Choice
1971 Youssef Chahine ، Ali Badrakhan Arabic Subtitled to english +12

Sayed is a celebrated author who has become a prominent societal and political figure. He finds hims...

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Al- Sokkareya
1973 Hassan El Emam Arabic Subtitled to english

The film follows Sayed Abdel Gawwad's family from its second to third generation, reflecting socio-p...

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Al-Karnak
1975 Ali Badrakhan ، Magda Helal Arabic Subtitled to english +18

In the sixties, the lives of three college classmates, Isma'il, Zainab and Hemy, takes a dark turn w...

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