Produced a year after the killing of Anwar Sadat, Atef al-Tayeb's film brought Sadat's infitah policy to harsh trial
An ill-fitting day job, elating football games in the afternoon and occasional one-nighters with a colleague
A fast-paced feminist tragedy conjured from a small article in a newspaper’s crime section
On the surface, Bashir al-Deek's Halaa Housh is just another slapstick comedy, writes Hanaa Safwat.
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