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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.

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n/a 120 min

Type:

Movie

Country:

Egypt, Austria, Sweden, United Kingdom

Genre:

Drama, Music, Comedy

Release:

2026-06-17

Year:

2026

Director:

Abu Bakr Shawky

Production:

Film AG, Cinenovo, Film Clinic, Fox in the Snow Films, Wrong Men, Lagoonie Film Production, Shofha, Film Square, Film i Väst

Cast:

Amir El-Masry, Valerie Pachner, Nelly Karim, Karim Kassem, Ahmed Kamal, Sherif Desouqy, Hassan El-Adl, Amr Abed, Ahmed ElAzaar, Khaled Mokhtar

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