FEEL IT.STREAM
Yousef Idris

Yousef Idris

Writing

Biography

Youssef Idris was an Egyptian writer of short stories and novellas. He was born in 1927, and studied at the Faculty of Medicine, where he also started his political activism against King Farouk's regime. He wrote his first short story while at the faculty, and it was highly praised by his colleagues. He continued working in medicine until 1960, and was employed as an editor in Al-Gomhoreya newspaper in 1957. His short stories are extremely popular in the Middle East, and were also translated to many languages and adapted to numerous short films.

Known For

His All-Knowing Secret
5.7

Between the past and the present, the events of the series follow Sultan Hamed, a popular hero at the time of the French campaign who turns into a legend that has shrines in many villages of Egypt. At the same time, Hamed, a jewelry maker, devotes his life to revealing the sultan's secret and finds himself fleeing from antiquity smugglers.

His All-Knowing Secret

2023
The Sin
7.7

Aziza and her husband Abdullah are both day laborers who work on various farms. When Aziza is brutally raped by a guard while she is picking potatoes in a field, she tries to hide the pregnancy and plans to kill the baby once it is born.

The Sin

1965
House of Flesh
10.0

he kept convincing himself that the woman in his bed is always his wife, his lawful partner, the one who wears his ring. Sometimes she acts young, sometimes she grows old, sometimes she becomes soft or rough, thin or fat —that’s her business alone. In fact, that’s the business of the people who can see, and their responsibility alone. They are the ones who have the gift of certainty, because they can tell the difference. As for him, as long as he is deprived of sight, he will remain deprived of certainty because he is blind. And there is no blame on the blind. Or… is there?

House of Flesh

2005
The Name Caller
N/A

Hamed leaves his hometown and goes to Cairo to work as a gatekeeper in a building. He marries Fathia, who comes to live with him in Cairo. Fathia gradually learns to read and write and she aspires to work in a good job while Alaa who lives in the building tries to woo her.

The Name Caller

1975
The City's Lost Souls
N/A

Abdullah is a judge who asks court guard Farghali to bring him a maid, he goes to the poor Shohrat who needs money for her children and her addict husband . She has an affair with the judge who gives her money. But when he decides to refrain from paying her, she leaves and he looks for her everywhere.

The City's Lost Souls

1974
Three Stories
7.0

The film combines 3 separate stories .. The first story (Dunia Allah) to Naguib Mahfouz and starring Salah Mansour and Nahed Sharif .. Tell the story of a courier in a government service approached the age of the pension did not enjoy his life at all decides to embezzlement of employees salaries and travel to Alexandria with one of the girls on the street to enjoy several weeks He was convinced that he did not harm anyone because all the employees did not need a salary except for one employee who was burdened with social burdens.

Three Stories

1968
Prisoner of the Night
8.0

Al-Gharib is a dangerous criminal who only strikes at night. As the police fail to catch him, Al-Gharib befriends a wealthy college student who gets to see a side to the terrifying serial killer that no one else gets to see.

Prisoner of the Night

1963
An Egyptian Story
6.5

After we last see him in "Alexandria, Why?" Egyptian filmmaker Yehia Mourad is in his thirties, and successful in his work, he has grown distant from his wife and children and suffers a symbolic blockage of the heart while shooting the final scenes of his latest film. After being flown to England for evaluation, it's determined that Yehia must undergo emergency surgery. Fact and fiction blend seamlessly—with healthy doses of cleverly absurdist fantasy—as the film explores the various personalities and forces that have made Yehia (and Youssef Chahine) the man he has become.

An Egyptian Story

1982
Li Li
7.3

Sheikh Abdul-Al, the imam of Al-Shobokshi Mosque in Al-Batiniyya. The drug trafficker, which is home to a group of traders and drug dealers, is surrounded by a beautiful girl, Lee, who is chasing him in his dreams and is in a conflict between his desire and his faith. And it ends on her door.

Li Li

2001
On Cellophane Paper
7.0

Qesmat is at crossroads as she suffers from her husband's neglect just as she encounters the open-minded Hesham who breathes new life and paints new color into her life. Rather unconsciously, she draws a constant comparison between her constantly-busy husband and Hesham.

On Cellophane Paper

1975
Sargeant Shabrawi
N/A

Sergeant Shabrawi is tasked to deliver the thief, Zanati, to prison and Zubaida to the mental hospital. In Cairo, the mission gets interrupted, and everyone is forced to stay at one of Zanati's relatives. Shabrawi gets into trouble when Zanati escapes.

Sargeant Shabrawi

1982
The Death Ward
5.5

Tawfiq imports spoiled food for children which causes thousands of children to fall ill. Despite the efforts of the journalist Nabila to expose him, he is able to escape abroad, so the officer in charge, Fouad, decides to take the law into his own hands.

The Death Ward

1989
The Chair Carrier
5.3

Sayed is a defeated human being living in the slums of old Cairo where he is constantly bombarded with government propaganda. He crosses paths with an ancient Egyptian porter carrying a throne and wondering in search of his lost king. Now Sayed wants to be seated too 'even for 5 minutes to see how it feels'. This political allegory is a study of the inherent self-imposed oppression in third world nations.

The Chair Carrier

2010
The Shortcoming
7.0

Corruption is rampant in the ministry, where one of the capitalists drives everyone to falsify import permits for himself, until three new girls are appointed to work there, and each of them takes a different path.

The Shortcoming

1967
Spirit of Survival
N/A

Police General Hemat demolishes the psychology of rebellious youth, by using sergeant Abbas who tortures political prisoners including Dr. Shawki. When Shawki is released, Abbas's condition deteriorates after his drug addiction. His wife Nour calls Dr. Shawki without knowing that he is one of his victims.

Spirit of Survival

1990
الفرافير
N/A

No description available.

الفرافير

1964
Incident of Dishonor
N/A

One of the beauties of the estate lives with her sister and her brother-in-law. As a man proposes to her and they arrange for their wedding, an unexpected event occurs as a playboy approaches her, causing her to break off her engagement. Can someone be cursed with beauty?

Incident of Dishonor

1971
زهرة الصبار
N/A

No description available.

زهرة الصبار

1967
The Clown
N/A

A man unexpectedly appears in the life of a family, claiming his right to his father’s inheritance as the long-lost twin son, while everyone believes he is a fraud since they thought he was dead. His arrival exposes hidden greed and conflicts within the family over money.

The Clown

1988
The Greatest of Sins
N/A

Short Film.

The Greatest of Sins

2007