Slimane Dazi

Based on a true story, this is a tale just weeks before the 2011 Egyptian revolution, when a police detective follows up on the murder of a singer.

Three brothers — a gangster, a scholar and an impressionable teen — learn hard lessons in the gritty suburbs while searching for the means to survive.

In this tale of lust and vulnerability, a mother falls into an addictive relationship with a Russian diplomat with whom she has nothing in common.

Investigating a cold case, a troubled insurance agent reckons with his own mortality at a shadowy hotel that specializes in assisted suicide.