Sherif Arafa

Sherif Arafa at IFFR

• Toyour el zalam

  Three lawyers were friends in the past, but now they all have to go their own way. With Egyptian comic star actor Adel Imam.

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• Hotch Potch

  Ya mahalabia ya is a complex satirical comedy, with political undertones, about film-making at the time of British domination under their puppet King Farouk. A film within a film. Sherif Arafa mocks everything, even the Egyptian style of filming in the fifties.In the film which we see being made, a night-club owner hatches a plot […]

  • Komedies uit Egypte en Iran

• Terrorism and Kebab

  Terrorism and Kebab is a farce denouncing the absurdity of bureaucracy. It is also a dramatic parable about impotence. The story is set in the El-Mugamaa Building, the centre of the monolithic Egyptian bureaucracy in Cairo, housing several ministries.The leading role is played by the best comic actor in Arab cinema, Adel Imam. He is […]

  • Komedies uit Egypte en Iran