The Stories
(2026)
★ 6.3 IMDb · 6 votes
Year: 2026
Runtime: 101 мин
Country: Egypt, Austria
Director: Abu Bakr Shawky
Cast: نيللى كريم, Амир Эль-Масри, Valerie Pachner, Amr Abed, Ahmed Kamal, Khaled Mokhtar, Sabry Fawaz, شريف دسوقي, Nagui Chehata, Karim Kassem
Plot
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.