STORY
Founded in 1998 in Cairo, Misr Arabia Films has spent twenty-eight years insisting that Egyptian cinema is most itself when it tells the truth — beautifully, fiercely, and on its own terms.
Founded in 1998 in Cairo, Misr Arabia Films has spent twenty-eight years insisting that Egyptian cinema is most itself when it tells the truth — beautifully, fiercely, and on its own terms.
For nearly three decades Misr Arabia Films has produced cinema that engages with the conscience of a nation — films of unflinching honesty, restless conviction, and uncompromised craft.
Our films have travelled to Cannes, Berlin, Venice, Toronto, and won the highest honours at Cairo, Carthage, El Gouna and Marrakech. But the measure of a film, for us, has never been a prize. It is whether the work — years after it leaves us — still asks the country a question it cannot quite put down.
Foundation
The company is founded in Downtown Cairo with a single conviction — to produce films of conscience and craft, unbeholden to the market.
Heya Fawda
Co-directed with Youssef Chahine, the film becomes a generational lightning rod and the studio's first international award winner.
After the Square
Three productions made under street conditions during the Revolution — small crews, fast turnarounds, an entire country as a backlot.
Festival Era
The studio's films travel to Cannes, Berlin, Venice and Cairo simultaneously for the first time, marking the start of its current international chapter.
Looking Forward
Three features in pre-production, a sister VFX house (Animafx) at full capacity, and a renewed mandate to bring the next generation of Egyptian directors into the room.
Cinema is the most generous form of testimony a nation can give itself. — Khaled Youssef