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Overview
The Stories is a decades-spanning Egyptian family saga and love story set between the late 1960s and 1980s. The film follows Ahmed, a young man from a Middle-Class Cairo family who dreams of becoming a concert pianist. During the tense summer of 1967, as war looms over Egypt, he begins a pen-pal correspondence with an Austrian woman named Elizabeth (“Liz”). A semi-autobiographical film based on the director's parents and how they met.
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- June 17, 2026
- Original language
- Arabic
- Spoken languages
- Arabic
- Production
- Film i Väst,Wrong Men,Film AG,Film Clinic,Fox in the Snow Films,Lagoonie Film Production,Cinenovo,Film Square,Shofha
- Cast
- Nelly Karim,Amir El-Masry,Valerie Pachner,Amr Abed,Ahmed Kamal,Khaled Mokhtar,Sabry Fawaz,Sherif Desouqy,Nagui Chehata,Karim Kassemand 7 more
- Director
- Abu Bakr Shawky
- Writer
- Abu Bakr Shawky
- Producer
- Julie Viez,Mohamed Hefzy
- Cinematography
- Wolfgang Thaler
- Budget
- Not recorded
- Revenue
- Not recorded
- IMDb
- View on IMDb