Zawya is an art-house cinema that specialises in screening independent films targeting a small, niche market rather than the commercially-profitable mass market. The film stories may focus on the hopes, dreams and motivations of the characters in the film, rather than have the clear, goal-driven story that is popularly adopted in mainstream Hollywood films. Zawya theater also showcases films from various film festivals from the Arab region and Europe throughout the year. Hence, it contributes to spreading cinematic culture in Egypt.
A film that charts the artistic and personal relationship between two era-defining artists, Omar Rodríguez-López and Cedric Bixler-Zavala (At the Drive-In/The Mars Volta), told almost entirely through...Read more hundreds of hours of self-shot footage filmed by Omar over the last 40 years.
Built solely from forensic visual archives and testimonies, Silence of Reason acts as a memory itself: elusive, fluid, rejecting framing, moving in all directions, spatial and temporal. The singular...Read more experiences of violence and torture to women from the Foča rape camps during the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina become our own collective memories, surpassing time and space.
Matthias is a master of his profession. Do you need a 'cultured boyfriend' to impress your friends? A 'perfect son' to influence your business partners' opinion of you? Or maybe just a sparring...Read more partner to rehearse an argument? Whatever it is, just rent Matthias. While he excels at pretending to be someone else every day, just being himself is the real challenge.
Six-year-old Amálka finds herself excluded from a family dispute. Instead, she enjoys a peaceful afternoon by the lake with her grandparents. Later, she discovers that the argument was about her...Read more mother's desire to leave and pursue a career as an artist in Prague.
The mystery substance that enables individuals to modify their age and looks is the primary focus of the movie, but it also has numerous negative effects and changes in the lives of those who use it.
Maria, a promising young writer and new mother, stumbles upon a chilling headline: a French woman has drowned her 10-month-old twins in the bathtub. The gruesome act seizes Maria’s imagination,...Read more becoming an obsession. Why did she do it? From that moment, the specter of infanticide looms over Maria’s life as a haunting possibility.