If you’re anywhere near Brussels this weekend, a stop at BOZAR (the Centre for Fine Arts) might be worth your time. As part of Aflam, a new Belgian ‘festival of Arab cinema’, the Centre has programmed seven new and recent films about Egypt, with some of the directors attending. Three documentaries: At Night, They Dance (trailer above) by Isabelle Lavigne and Stéphane Thibault is a family chronicle about a clan of women in which the profession as a dancer is passed down from mother to daughter. The Three Disappearances of Soad Hosni, a documentary by Rania Stephan, recounts the career of the legendary and influential Egyptian actress, “who was to Arab cinema what Umm Kulthum was to Arab song”:

Omar Shargawi and Karim El Hakim’s 1/2 Revolution tells their version of last year’s revolution through footage filmed while in the middle of it:

And four fiction films. 18 Days is a collection of ten short films, both real and imagined stories, made by ten directors focusing on the revolution:

The 2010 film El-Shouq (‘Desire’ or ‘Longing’) by director Khaled El-Hagar explores the goings-on in an unnamed Alexandrian street and the lives of its inhabitants. The film was nominated to represent Egypt in the Best Foreign Language Film section at this year’s Oscars:

Hesham Issawi’s Cairo Exit tells the story of Amal and Tarek:

And Ibrahim El Batout’s Hawi “looks at the idleness, hopes, and disillusion of everyday life in Alexandria as experienced by a range of characters played by non-professional actors”: