28 Oct 2018
Islands
Everybody has their own dreams and fears. Are we all connected or are we really all alone in this world?
The Bathhouse of Malatily
Hammam Al Malatily
The film is an adaptation of the novel Samar Habib by Ismåeel Walieddin. author of Female Homosexuality in the Middle East: Histories and Representations. The main character, Ahmad, leaves rural eastern Egypt for the city hoping to become economically self-sufficient, gets an apartment for his parents, and obtains a law degree. He and his family are refugees from a town occupied by the Israeli army, Ismaåilia. Ali, the owner of the Malatily Bathhouse, offers to let him stay there for free. Ahmad encounters several characters there, including Naåeema, a prostitute who he becomes obsessed with, and Raouf, a homosexual man.
Top Billed Cast
شمس البارودي Naima
Yousuf Shaaban Raouf the painter
Mohamed El Arabi Ahmed Taher Abdel Salam
Nemat Mokhtar 
Fayez Halawa 
Naima ElSoghier Nabawiyah
عبد الغني النجدي 
Souad Nasr 
أحمد بدير Antar
Ibrahim Abdulraziq the narrator
Said Khalil 
Nahed Samir Um Ahmed
إبراهيم قدري Hassanein
Galeela Mahmoud 
Ali Mostafa
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