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Shadi Ali

Born May 20, 1975 · Egypt (age 51)

Shady Aly is an Egyptian television and film director. He graduated from the cinematography department in the High Cinema Institute in 1997. He is most known for being the cinematographer in films including "Ezaa'at Hob" (Love Broadcast) and "Bolteya El Ayma" (Swimming Tilapia). He directed the film "Hayaty Mebahdela" and the television series "Alragol Al-Ennab" (Hibiscus Man).

Known For

Welcome to Egypt

Welcome to Egypt · 2018

Welcome to Egypt

Hamed comes back home after fifteen years in Kuwait. When he reunites with his college friends, they go through many comedic situations together.

Our Love kangaroo

Our Love kangaroo · 2016

Our Love kangaroo

A young man who works for a freight forwarding agency finds himself responsible for a shipment of real live Kangaroos instead of small statues of Kangaroos. He has to look after the animals himself until he can find their owner, with the help of a pretty young vet.

Female Cousins

Female Cousins · 2012

MovieComedyFantasy

Three young female cousins living with their grandmother pay a steep price for trying to sell the family palace when a curse transforms them into men.

Tattah

This satirical comedy revolves around Tatah, a maladjusted, poor man from Abdeen who befriends a woman online with help from his nephew. Just as his life starts to change, the woman is kidnapped and he sets out to save her.

5 Mohi El Din Abu El Ezz

5 Mohi El Din Abu El Ezz · 2023

5 Mohi El Din Abu El Ezz

Mohi ambitious man who seeks to start a family. decides to go abroad.While he is at the airport He is stopped on chargest. He escape to begin the journey of searching for Mohi the fugitive from justice.

Farce

A beauty expert, a drug dealer, and a bungling revolutionary end up in the grips of an extremist group after meeting on a plane to Lebanon.

Kamel El-Awsaf

Kamel El-Awsaf · 2006

The role of the story of the film about the son of a businessman who lives abroad and when he returns to Egypt meets Shula and Ola Ghanem in two different positions falls in love with the first while the second is in the fine without knowing each other until the three meet on one occasion and discover Amer Mounib that the two girls Two sisters.

A Rat With Seven Souls

A Rat With Seven Souls · 2025

A Rat With Seven Souls

MovieComedyHorror

The events revolve around seven different stories and various characters, but they are linked by a mysterious corpse that moves between them sarcastically, causing them a lot of chaos in their lives in order to get rid of it.

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Welcome to Egypt

Welcome to Egypt · 2018

Welcome to Egypt

Hamed comes back home after fifteen years in Kuwait. When he reunites with his college friends, they go through many comedic situations together.

Director

Our Love kangaroo

Our Love kangaroo · 2016

Our Love kangaroo

A young man who works for a freight forwarding agency finds himself responsible for a shipment of real live Kangaroos instead of small statues of Kangaroos. He has to look after the animals himself until he can find their owner, with the help of a pretty young vet.

Director of Photography

Female Cousins

Female Cousins · 2012

MovieComedyFantasy

Three young female cousins living with their grandmother pay a steep price for trying to sell the family palace when a curse transforms them into men.

Director of Photography

Tattah

This satirical comedy revolves around Tatah, a maladjusted, poor man from Abdeen who befriends a woman online with help from his nephew. Just as his life starts to change, the woman is kidnapped and he sets out to save her.

Director of Photography

5 Mohi El Din Abu El Ezz

5 Mohi El Din Abu El Ezz · 2023

5 Mohi El Din Abu El Ezz

Mohi ambitious man who seeks to start a family. decides to go abroad.While he is at the airport He is stopped on chargest. He escape to begin the journey of searching for Mohi the fugitive from justice.

Director

Farce

A beauty expert, a drug dealer, and a bungling revolutionary end up in the grips of an extremist group after meeting on a plane to Lebanon.

Director

Kamel El-Awsaf

Kamel El-Awsaf · 2006

The role of the story of the film about the son of a businessman who lives abroad and when he returns to Egypt meets Shula and Ola Ghanem in two different positions falls in love with the first while the second is in the fine without knowing each other until the three meet on one occasion and discover Amer Mounib that the two girls Two sisters.

Director of Photography

A Rat With Seven Souls

A Rat With Seven Souls · 2025

A Rat With Seven Souls

MovieComedyHorror

The events revolve around seven different stories and various characters, but they are linked by a mysterious corpse that moves between them sarcastically, causing them a lot of chaos in their lives in order to get rid of it.

Director

Two For Rent

Two For Rent · 2023

As the unemployed Safiha and Hamada are looking for a suitable job opportunity to earn a living, they decide to offer themselves for rent to whoever pays them to meet his demands as a means of making money.

Director

The Following Statement Came To Us

The Following Statement Came To Us · 2001

The Following Statement Came To Us

MovieComedyDrama

Nader saif eldeen and Afet elsherbiny are two competing Egyptians newspaper reporters who expose the truth but the Channel Manager rejects that for fear of government.

Swimming Boltia

Swimming Boltia · 2008

Swimming Boltia

MovieDramaComedy

Master Boltia is facing investors trying to control a private beach in the Max area in Alexandria, where she lives with her daughter, leading to a fierce confrontation between her and the investors.

المصور الفوتوغرافي

Love Station

Love Station · 2011

MovieComedyRomance

Single coworkers at a radio station are brought together by mutual friends, but their starry-eyed notions about love may scuttle their romance.

Director of Photography

Young Lovers

Young Lovers · 2005

MovieComedyFamily

A new guy who falls in love with a girl he meets, loses his memory when she accidently hit him with her car; the doctor advices his father to repeat the same day over and over for his son so that he can get back his memory.

Director of Photography

Nems Bond

Nems Bond · 2008

MovieComedyAction

Sherif Bond (Hany Ramzy) is a policeman who is assigned a murder investigation case. When he meets the beautiful brunette, Nour (Dolly Shahin) the widow of the deceased, and despite his little experience in cases like this one, he gets exceptionally motivated to solve the case.

Director of Photography

My Life Is a Mess

My Life Is a Mess · 2015

My Life Is a Mess

Tattah’s one unlucky mall guard whose life gets even more complicated after running over a cat and getting cursed for it; he also affects Faten,the woman he secretly loves with the same curse, making life even more difficult.

Director

Dreams of the Reckless Boy

Dreams of the Reckless Boy · 2007

Dreams of the Reckless Boy

MovieDramaComedy

The role of story in the comic film about a young playboy and loves stardom and fame, meet by chance with the actress Nelly Karim and falls in love and happen paradoxes comedy and evolving events

Director of Photography

Run Away Kids

Run Away Kids · 2006

(Hassan, Arafah, and Sultan), a group of friends working in the field of reviving weddings by riding motorcycles in the area of Siof in Alexandria, each young man lives a different story, but they meet in the same dream of traveling abroad, and their friend (Fadl Matareya) In their dream, after successfully traveling, they fall prey to a person called Pasha, who falsifies their papers, passports and military service certificates, and as their dream begins to verify, the surprise occurs.

Director of Photography

Life's Indulgences

Life's Indulgences · 2005

Life's Indulgences

MovieDramaRomance

Hanan has been unhappy due to the passing of her father, while her husband Sharif has been eyeing Ghada, the young daughter of his driver. They are friends with a married couple, Ahmed and Mona, but Mona has been chatting online with her ex-boyfriend. All of their lives change when Sharif's driver finds out that Ghada as run away from home to be with Sharif and Ahmed finds out what Mona has been doing online.

Director of Photography

Almost Corrupted

Almost Corrupted · 2008

Almost Corrupted

MovieComedyDrama

A young man who works as a singer in a local band led by his musician uncle,meets the girl of his dreams in a wedding and his uncle's wife helps him to marry her.

Director of Photography

Girls and Motorcycles

Girls and Motorcycles · 2008

Girls and Motorcycles

After a period of travel,(Omar)comes back to Egypt and works as a personal trainer in one of the hotels in Sharm El-sheikh. He meets with his old friends and decides to go back to motorcycle racing by entering a big competition in the city.

Director of Photography

May It Prosper

May It Prosper · 2017

The film revolves around Amer, which is embodied by (Ahmad Rizk), a hesitant figure and doubts all around him even his wife, who fired three times within the events and affected by their only son Karim

Director

The Mexican Experiment

The Mexican Experiment · 2024

The Mexican Experiment

Within a framework of comedy and action, the work revolves around a group of friends traveling on a mission to Mexico. They are exposed to many situations and paradoxes, and events continue

Director

Hassan Tayara

Hassan Tayara · 2008

Hassan is a typical Egyptian guy who holds a Bachelor of Law, yet he works as a microbus driver to make ends meet. He falls in love with Malak (Razan Moghrabi) the daughter of a minister. But can their love survive?

Director of Photography

Charging Card

Charging Card · 2023

A man's life goes haywire when he discovers that he needs endless mobile apps and costly subscriptions to navigate an increasingly digital world.

Director

Viva Atata

Viva Atata · 2014

The series revolves around the old woman (Ata) who causes problems for herself and those around her, then she enters the prison after being accused of committing a crime, and raises some crises inside the prison and causes many problems for the prison warden, whose daughter suffers from a mental illness that makes her separate from reality and lives with the mentality of a small child, and that she You'll be cured of this psychological knot after meeting Ata Which will tell stories from the past until he is cured.

Director of Photography

The Hibiscus-Man

The Hibiscus-Man · 2013

The Hibiscus-Man

SeriesSci-Fi & FantasyComedy

This science-fiction show revolves around a mad scientist, known by his friends as the "Al Ragol Al E'naab." The mad scientist concocts an elixir that gives regular human beings supernatural abilities. Though he tries to use his potion to help people, the government hinds him out and goes after him. In the midst of his manhunt, Egypt undergoes a major disaster, prompting the Egyptian government to seek out his help rather than his arrest.

Director

Devils of Al-Sayala

Devils of Al-Sayala · 2004

Devils of Al-Sayala

Rizqa adopts and raises her nephew Maghawry after his mother dies during his birth. He grows up with his aunt in Al-Siyala neighborhood in Alexandria where they suffer from poverty and difficult circumstances, but events take a turn when a rich businessman claims that he's Maghawry's father.

الصلاة على النبي فتح الباب

Safia's Case

Safia's Case · 2010

SeriesDramaCrime

The story of a rural girl named Safia whose father dies and leaves her a great inheritance. Her life takes a turn when a man claiming to be her brother suddenly appears. When he's killed, Safia is accused of the crime, forcing her to go on the run to try to prove her innocence.

Director of Photography

Layali

Layali is a pharmaceutical student whose father urges her to give false testimony in a corruption case. Refusing to obey, she flees to Cairo and gets into a relationship with a Lebanese producer who promises to help her rise into stardom, but fails to honor his promise.

Director of Photography

30 Days

30 Days · 2017

Tarek Helmy is a young married psychiatrist who has a daughter named Farida. On her first birthday, a patient called Tawfiq Al-Masry comes to Tarek, explaining to him an experiment he wants to carry out: he will pick someone, "The Chosen", and put him through a cycle of self-destructive crises over thirty days.

Al-Shahroura

Al-Shahroura · 2011

A biography about the artist Sabah (Al-Shahroura) following her professional and personal life from the age of seventeen, addressing the problems that she has experienced since her adolescence in Lebanon, and her adoption in Egypt, her children, and her many husbands, in addition to her family.

Director of Photography

The Duty Free

The Duty Free · 2026

Set entirely inside the duty-free zone of a busy international airport, this Egyptian workplace comedy follows the daily clashes between a quirky staff — led by a veteran employee who relies on wit to survive every crisis — and a newly appointed manager from a completely different background. Travellers from across cultures pass through, creating a non-stop parade of absurd situations and human comedy.

Director