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Scheherazade Tell Me a Story
2010
Scheherazade Tell Me a Story
6.8
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A female talk show host in Cairo stirs up political controversy when she focuses her on-air discussions on the topic of women's issues.
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Scheherazade Tell Me a Story
The Gate of the Sun
(2004)
Yousry Nasrallah's powerful adaptation of Lebanese writer Elias Khoury's epic novel of fifty years of Palestinian dispossession, exile, and resistance. The film follows the flight of Younes, his wife Nahila, and those around them, from their village in northern Palestine to a refugee camp in Lebanon. Some vow to continue the struggle, ...
Scheherazade Tell Me a Story
The Aquarium
(2008)
Youssef is a hotshot anesthesiologist who often sleeps in his car for privacy. Laila is the careerist host of a late night radio call-in show. These two members of Cairo's elite, lost souls traveling parallel paths of longing and disconnection, are the principal fish in Yousry Nasrallah's The Aquarium, a meditation on the intellectual ...
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After the Battle
(2012)
Once a member of one of the notorious armed groups that were coerced by the Egyptian Government to carry out violent attacks on protestors in Tahir Square on February 2nd 2011, Mahmoud has since lost his job, been subjected to beatings and humiliating treatment, and been ostracized by his own community that live close to the Pyramids. ...
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The City
(1999)
Ali, an aspiring actor, works in a government-aided butchery, and takes a part in a cheap play, while his father wants him to start working in fruit trade. Ali pursues his long-lived dream of traveling abroad and flies to France with an acting troupe, where he starts living illegally alongside many other Arabs, and starts a life-changi...
Scheherazade Tell Me a Story
18 Days
(2011)
10 Film makers made 10 Separate stories about the "25January " revolution in Egypt and the Egyptian people in the revolution and the protests against the previous President Hosni Mubarak and the departure of President Hosni Mubarak and also displays what happened in Tahrir Square since the start of the sit-in

Details

Runtime:
134 min
Release date:
5 May 2010
Country:
EG
Languages:
Arabic
Awards:
6 wins & 1 nomination.

Top Critics Reviews

fresh:
An urgent political statement that's also a funny, sexy entertainment.
– Ben Sachs,
Chicago Reader,
13 Apr 2011
fresh:
Together with scribe Waheed Hamed, helmer Yousry Nasrallah presents women's sexuality as an expression of self-determination, making clear the parallels with an ever-degenerating political system.
– Jay Weissberg,
Variety,
13 Apr 2011
fresh:
"Scheherazade, Tell Me a Story" is a powerful indictment of misogyny that overturns stereotypes about Egypt through the dramatic stories women recount on a television show.
– Deborah Young,
Hollywood Reporter,
13 Apr 2011
rotten:
Nasrallah's artistry is ultimately incapable of matching his narrative's social significance.
– Nick Schager,
Village Voice,
9 Aug 2011
fresh:
Lively, swift, vibrantly colorful and for the most part wonderfully acted, the film is slyly aware of the daytime talk show as a vehicle for women's concerns.
– Jeannette Catsoulis,
New York Times,
11 Aug 2011
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