A 14-year-old girl in 1948 Palestine watches from a locked pantry as catastrophe consumes her home. Read More
Narges prepares for immigration to America to join her kids, but she loses her passport before the flight, and sets out to search for it in the places she has been to or at her friends'. She meets a peculiar wizard, and experiences a series of events that will change her mind about her trip.
Jamila, an Algerian girl who loves her homeland, joins the nationalist movement to liberate her country from French occupation. Based on the life of Djamila Bouhired, who was arrested and tortured by the French Algerian government, Chahine's first explicitly political film managed to galvanize wide solidarity with the Algerian resistance from across the Arab World, starting in Egypt.
