Salwa Khattab

A young factory worker Hayam lives in a lower-middle-class neighbourhood. She is clearly under the spell of Salah, the factory's new supervisor who has expressed his admiration for her. She believes love can transcend the class differences between them. However when a pregnancy test is discovered in the factory premises, her immediate family and close friends accuse her of sinning. Hiyam decides not to defend herself and pays an enormous price in a society that fails to accept independent women. (Dubai International Film Festival)

A wonderful drama interpretation of the novel of Nobel Laureate Naguib Mahfouz, tracking the life and death of members of an Egyptian family through generations since the era of Muhammad Ali, founder of modern Egypt. The title's translation is "Talk of the morning and the evening," where morning symbolises birth and evening symbolises death. (imdb)