STORY
Founded in Cairo in 2004 — first as the company that put other people's films on the ground, now financing, producing and distributing its own.
Misr Arabia Films was founded in Cairo in 2004. For its first decade and more the company worked as an execution producer: the money came from elsewhere, and Misr Arabia put the film on the ground — crews, locations, schedule, the daily work of turning a script into a shoot. It did that across Khaled Youssef’s filmography.
That changed with Karma in 2018, the first film the company financed, produced and distributed itself. Since then it has worked on its own terms, and in partnership where a project calls for it: as executive producer on the series Hamed’s Secret in 2023, and in co-production with Rotana Studios on El Eskandrany in 2024.
Two features and a series are in the planning stages.
Founded
The company is founded in Cairo as an execution producer: the financing comes from elsewhere, and Misr Arabia puts the film on the ground. It goes on to do this across Khaled Youssef's filmography.
Karma
The first film Misr Arabia finances, produces and distributes itself — the point where the company stops executing other people's productions and starts backing its own.
Hamed's Secret
Executive producer on the thirty-episode series adapted from Youssef Idris, written and directed by Khaled Youssef.
El Eskandrany
Co-produced with Rotana Studios, from the novel by Osama Anwar Okasha — the company's first major co-production partnership.
In planning
Two features and a series in the planning stages, and Animafx — the sister visual effects and post house — at full capacity.