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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....
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....
In Alexandria, Fatma needs money for her youngest son's weekly kidney dialysis. She travels to Cairo to beg away from home, after she collects enough money she returns to discover her son's death. She decides to protect her two daughters from poverty so she returns to Cairo to continue to beg....
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....
Menahi is a Saudi Bedouin young man, single and living with his old mother. He is a simple, spontaneous and kind-heart man, instinctive and adhering to the ethics of the environment from which he emerged, such as honesty, honor and virility. He dreams of owning a small farm to raise sheep. But he went out into the city and didn't adapt to civic life. —Akram Gus...