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Two young boys, two geographical, cultural, religious and very different: West and East. Spain and India. Madrid and Old Delhi. Christians and Muslims. The boys play chess and have contacted the Internet "where" play games. An ancestral language and half spanking that know no borders. Can boys as different cultural backgrounds to reconcile their definitions of truly universal values in the current troubled situation? The answer inevitably passes through the mutual knowledge and understanding will. A dialogue among civilizations rather than a clash of civilizations, is the look that "Cesar and Zain" brings us closer to Islam.
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Pierre, a devoted father in his 50s, raises his two sons alone. When Louis, the youngest, leaves home to attend the Sorbonne in Paris, Fus, slightly older and not as successful academically, becomes more and more secretive. Driven by a fascination for violence, he gets entangled in far-right extremist groups, at the very opposite of his father’s values. Between them, there is love and hate, until tragedy happens.

A fisherman's son is offered the ultimate privilege to study at the Al-Azhar University in Cairo, the epicenter of power of Sunni Islam. Shortly after his arrival, the university’s highest ranking religious leader, the Grand Imam, dies and the young student becomes a pawn in a ruthless power struggle between Egypt's religious and political elite.