Zezenia زيزينيا

Zezenia 1: El Wali w El Khawaga

• Censorship:
• مصري
• All Ages
Release Date: 30 December 1997

• Genre:
• Drama

• Yehia El Fakharany
• Athar El Hakeim
• Fardous Abdel Hamid
• Hoda Soltan

Set in 1940s Alexandria, the story follows the Egyptian-Italian Bishr, who’s conflicted about his mixed heritage, and his love for the affluent, yet confused, Aida, shedding light on the struggle against the British in the Zananiri neighborhood led by El Tobji and Naima Mersal.

Zezenia 2: Al Layl W Al Fanar

Release Date: 27 November 2000

• Genre:
• Drama

• Yehia El Fakharany
• Hala Sedqy
• Fardous Abdel Hamid
• Hoda Soltan

Shedding light on the lives of foreigners, whether Italians, Greeks, or others, in Alexandria in the 1940s, through the story of Bishr Amer Abdel Zaher, an Egyptian man who has an Italian mother, as he is torn between his Egyptian roots and the attempt of his mother and uncle to attract him to the...Read more Italian side.