The Cairo Scene

Wael Khairy The Cairo Scene Sep 22, 2026 What was once a child’s desperate whisper in the night is now a roaring voice shaking the corridors of global cinema, demanding to be heard. Go to Full Review The Voice of Hind Rajab (2025) 93% - -

Wael Khairy The Cairo Scene Aug 25, 2026 "Hope" may not entirely hold together, but even in its messiest moments, Na Hong-jin proves he remains one of contemporary Korean cinema’s most exciting filmmakers. Go to Full Review Hope (2026) 79% - -

Wael Khairy The Cairo Scene Jul 1, 2026 ‘Colony’ may not have much on its mind, but neither do its zombies... making it all the way to the end depends largely on one’s tolerance for cinematic nonsense. Go to Full Review Colony (2026) 81% - -

Wael Khairy The Cairo Scene Jun 7, 2026 There is something profoundly moving about seeing figures who have long existed in literary memory rendered with such intimacy and fragility. In his hands, these characters are stripped of their grandiosity and become painfully human. Go to Full Review Fatherland (2026) 91% - -

Wael Khairy The Cairo Scene May 25, 2026 Truly anti-war films are scarce, but this is unmistakably one of them, for the very precise reason of avoiding to depict it...it feels exciting to witness a strong female voice emerge with such empathy and clarity of vision. Go to Full Review The Station (2026) - - - -

Wael Khairy The Cairo Scene May 11, 2026 It reaches for something greater than itself. And even when it doesn’t fully grasp it, the attempt is genuinely moving. Go to Full Review zi (2026) 62% - -

Wael Khairy The Cairo Scene Apr 11, 2026 De Araújo crafts a devastating and profoundly empathetic portrait of a child confronting a world that has suddenly revealed its capacity for violence. Go to Full Review Josephine (2026) 96% - -

Wael Khairy The Cairo Scene Mar 9, 2026 This is perhaps the first time in my life I’ve heard an audience scream out loud while the screen remained completely silent. Few horror films are this sensory. Frankly, it’s one of the most inventive horror films in years. Go to Full Review The Undertone (2025) 74% - -

Wael Khairy The Cairo Scene Mar 9, 2026 The problem isn’t just that ‘Wicker’ lacks ideas, but that it treats folklore more as decoration. Beneath the wicker and straw, the film is missing something essential, a beating heart. Go to Full Review Wicker (2026) 94% - -

Wael Khairy The Cairo Scene Feb 1, 2026 What "Lady" understands, more so than most films, is how life operates at the margins of society. The women are not locked in a state of constant misery. Instead, they exist in a space where hardship and humour coexist as survival strategies. Go to Full Review Lady (2026) 91% - -

Wael Khairy The Cairo Scene Jan 29, 2026 ‘La Cazadora’ Is a masterful portrait of disappearance...the kind of film that feels unmistakably authored. It could only be made with such devastating power by a filmmaker attuned to the daily calculations women make to simply get by. Go to Full Review The Huntress (2026) 100% - -

Wael Khairy The Cairo Scene Jan 12, 2026 Powerful and Soul-shaking....Terrence Malick’s Knight of Cups is philosophical fiction at its finest. Go to Full Review Knight of Cups (2015) 47% 37%

Wael Khairy The Cairo Scene Oct 7, 2025 The suspense is relentless. There were long stretches where I found myself at the edge of my seat. One scene in particular left me in complete shock....It’s an image I’ll likely never forget. I doubt I’ll see a more jaw-dropping moment this year. Go to Full Review Sirāt (2025) 90% - -

Wael Khairy The Cairo Scene Sep 6, 2025 ...a compassionate and darkly humorous portrait of homelessness. ...Urchin asks us to care, even when it’s easier to turn away. Go to Full Review Urchin (2025) 96% - -

Wael Khairy The Cairo Scene Aug 3, 2025 The writing is devastating. ‘Sentimental Value’ is a film about the redemptive power of storytelling. It explores how the act of making cinema can be a form of healing. Go to Full Review Sentimental Value (2025) 95% - -

Wael Khairy The Cairo Scene Jul 2, 2025 A chilling descent into the horrors of bullying...There’s a particular kind of ache that comes from betraying your own sense of right and wrong just to avoid becoming a target yourself. The film is one of the most promising debuts of the year. Go to Full Review The Plague (2025) 97% - -

Wael Khairy The Cairo Scene Jun 18, 2025 This is without doubt her (Jennifer Lawrence's) greatest performance yet. The film perfectly captures the grief of losing a part of yourself in the process of becoming someone else. It’s not a story about motherhood as much as it is an experience of it. Go to Full Review Die My Love (2025) 74% - -

Wael Khairy The Cairo Scene Jun 15, 2025 "It Was Just An Accident" contains perhaps the most perfect ending of any film I’ve seen this year. It invites a kind of active spectatorship where audiences must reckon with the discomfort of moral ambiguity. Go to Full Review It Was Just an Accident (2025) 98% - -

Wael Khairy The Cairo Scene Jun 1, 2025 With Once Upon a Time in Gaza, the Nasser brothers pull off something so rare. They created a film that is both unflinching and unexpectedly uplifting. It demands to be seen. Go to Full Review Once Upon a Time in Gaza (2025) 93% - -

Wael Khairy The Cairo Scene May 25, 2025 Like the cake at the heart of the story, the film builds itself layer by layer.‘The President’s Cake’ is the strongest film from the region to premiere this year at Cannes. The film everyone should be talking about Go to Full Review The President's Cake (2025) 99% - -