Browse 14 movies from Red Star Films
Over the course of 48 hours, Daye travels across Egypt's governorates to fulfill his dream. He is accompanied by his captivating voice, his broken family, and his music teacher. He journeys without money, a car, or any means of communication, and most importantly, he is unsure of his ability to reach his goal.
Sep 2025
A retired singer from northern Sudan, Mona, burdened by guilt for covering up a man's death, hires his southern widow, Julia, as her maid. Unable to confess her role in the tragedy, she hopes to move forward, but the country's growing unrest threatens to reveal her secret.
Nov 2023
Its events revolve in a romantic context around a university professor whose life is invaded by a student, and events develop until he finds himself involved in her relationship with her lover, and then he falls in love with her as well.
Nov 2025
Habib, a hairdresser from the late 1960s who works in his own hair salon in his apartment, is about to break with his usual routine by trying to make his wife happy. Habib usually suffers a lot, but he insists on staying alive.
Oct 2019
After the death of their father, Galal, the Abu El Fadl family's peaceful life collapses. The eldest son, Tarek, finds himself responsible for everything, while Hegazy returns from Cairo to discover that dealing with his patients is much easier than dealing with his own family. Matters become further complicated with the appearance of the mysterious man, Samir Italia, who demands a large sum of money from the family. Between the father's debts and suspicious artifacts, the brothers' attempts at reconciliation turn into a series of disasters that only make matters worse.
Oct 2025
We follow the journey of former soldier Nassif, who fled the war in Iraq by hiding in dark cinemas. During this time, he used to watch his favorite film, “Papillon” (1973), starring Steve McQueen. Nowadays, he is looking for this film among the Iraqi cinemas’ ruins. The search for this lost film copy in the old and obsolete cinemas becomes the sole purpose of Nassif and his primary motivation to leave his house. “Take me to the Cinema” allows us to discover Baghdad through Nassif’s eyes as he takes us to streets that contrast with his silent and quiet world. A lot has changed in today’s Iraq. The street where cinema theaters were is now a market that sells military uniforms. It is crowded with young men, fitting military shirts and shoes. The quest for “Papillon” becomes the quest of character, who does not want to acknowledge the transformations of his city, and who wants to cling on to its luminous past through the light of cinema and his inner world.
Jul 2022
The events revolve around the life of a woman who was completely changed by war, until she was forced to meet a man looking for fun. During their meeting, the duo discovers their need for emotional and human communication, before they wake up again to the dark reality of the city.
Oct 2024
Hayam, an unmarried twenty-year-old girl, passes away, and her brothers, Zaher and Murad, discover love bites on her neck and chest just before the body washing, which hinders the completion of the washing for fear of scandal.
May 2025
The film's events revolve around a group of people who find themselves passengers on a mysterious bus driven by Satan, and each of these characters represents one of the seven deadly sins, making the film a symbolic reflection of the internal conflicts that each of us experiences.
Dec 2024
Magdy and Sama, a retired couple in their 60s, live quietly in their Cairo apartment. Their calm routine is disrupted when their fridge breaks down. What should be a simple repair spirals into a bizarre, months-long battle with a shady maintenance company. As the fridge remains unfixed, so does everything else, pushing them to confront not only the cracks in the system but also in their own sense of purpose.
After a terrorist church bombing in Tanta, the body of an employee at Al Pasha Women's Beauty Centre, Nadia, is discovered. The center owner, Nour Al Pasha, and female workers are in trouble about the need to cover up the incident, which is mostly a suicide, in order to preserve the center's reputation amidst intense competition. While Al Pasha tries to obtain a burial permit unofficially and illegally, the workers get involved in trying to find a way to wash Nadia for burial secretly. Nevertheless, they face multiple successive difficulties. Hence, each one of them recalls her relationship with Nadia. They confront their realities and actions, as well as what Al Pasha represents in their extremely harsh and unpredictable lives.
Khadiga is a young 18-year-old mother living alone with her baby after her husband left for work in a remote city. One day, she makes her way through the hustle of Cairo streets to do some visits where she feels uncomfortable with the surroundings.
Oct 2021
Hind is a young karate athlete with a hearing disability. One day, after she is subjected to abusive behaviour at the training centre, her world becomes distorted. Hind must find a way to reclaim her power.
Feb 2024
A couple's dreams of parenthood are shattered by a mystical ritual, forcing their daughter to embrace her supernatural destiny amidst love, betrayal and a cursed fate.
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