The Stories. Genre: Drama, Music, Comedy. Director: Abu Bakr Shawky. Cast: Nelly Karim, Amir El-Masry, Valerie Pachner, Amr Abed, Ahmed Kamal. Release Date: 2026-06-17. Runtime: 101 minutes. Rating: 5.7/10. 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.

القصص. يُخطِّط عازف بيانو مصري شاب للسفر إلى مدينة فيينا بعد مراسلات بريدية مع صديقة نمساوية، وذلك في خضم الاضطرابات السياسية والاجتماعية التي شهدتها مصر بين عامي 1967 و1984. وخلال رحلته، يكتشف جوانب مختلفة من الصداقة والشدائد والإصرار.