Movies: Bassem Samra

Nubi, a wealthy man with Communist ties, sets out to find his half-brother Gamal, who has been disowned for being gay, to let him inherit his father's fortune. In the process, Nubi is supposed to kill Gamal's stepmother Raifa, a suspected drug dealer...

A married couple heard a strange story during their honeymoon about a night where the moon is absent, the desert is angry, and the people on the outskirts of the Siwa Oasis believe that Satan is searching for a bride....

This concise masterpiece began as a commission by French TV for the news series Envoyé spécial. By filming Cairo with his unique sense of artistic digression, Chahine transformed this portrait of a city into the self-portrait of a filmmaker....

Yehia runs a catering business with his sons, Ref’at and Galal; the former is engaged to marry Karima, who actually loves his brother and is trying to find a way to reveal her feelings for him; while he himself is in love with Shadia who just returne...

The story of a group of young intellectuals living in Egypt as friends, having a lot of ambition and joy, but with the beginning of the Iraq war , it casts a harsh shadow on the group, preventing one of them to travel abroad to continue studying....

The work deals with a set of interlocking stories about the relationship of men and women, and raises many issues such as the lack of understanding between husbands, marital rape and its impact, as well as the delay in the age of marriage....

The film follows the touching stories of various people in Downtown Cairo as they try to find balance in their lives and deal with its ups and downs....

Living on the edges of Cairo’s Embabah neighborhood, several residents seek to better their circumstances following the January 25 Revolution....

A doctor named Sameh lives his life with an ugly wife and a demon...

A documentary which depicts the life of Bassem Samra and his friends and family. The film discusses issues concerning love and the veil....

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Ali, an aspiring actor, works in a government-aided butchery and takes part in a cheap play. Defying his father's wishes, he moves to Paris to fulfill his dreams and starts living illegally alongside many other Arabs. Ali has a life-changing experien...

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It is an ordinary day for Raouf, who spends his day racing against time and trying to resolve his differences with his fiancée, Nadia, while meditation, memories, and nostalgia are scattered throughout the day....

The film revolves around a man who can spend all of his life in a difficult life by lying and cheating. He is connected to a girl who seeks to marry him and is disappointed to be associated with another man until he finds himself alone, which causes ...

A short fictional film based on a story by the novelist Ibrahim Aslan, whose events revolve around an old man who notices the physical changes that his young son is experiencing, and sheds light on the problems of aging....