The Stories
4.0/5 2026 · Directed by Abu Bakr Shawky · Starring El-Masry, Karim Kassem, Valerie Pachner · Drama, Music · 120 min
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.