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The Stories, is a 2026 Egyptian movie, directed by Abu Bakr Shawky, and starring Amir El-Masry, Valerie Pachner, Karim Kassem. with a runtime of 101 minutes.
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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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1The Stories is a 2025 Egyptian anthology drama film written and directed by Abu Bakr Shawky. A co-production between Egypt, France, Austria, Belgium, and Sweden, the film stars Amir El-Masry, Nelly Karim and Valerie Pachner among others. Structured as an anthology, it follows interconnected episodes tracing relationship between an Egyptian man and an Austrian woman, unfolding across different periods of their lives against shifting historical and political backdrops. The story is semi-autobiographical film based on the Shawky’s parents and how they met.
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