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Ahmad Abdalla

Born December 19, 1979 · Cairo, Egypt (age 46)

A Filmmaker from Egypt, Director of Rags & Tatters, Microphone, Heliopolis, Decor, Exterior/Night. Graduated from the Faculty of Music Education, worked as a film editor since 2003. based in Cairo, Egypt. Winner of : Golden Antigone from 35th Cinemed, Golden Tulip from Istanbul International Film Festival, Tanit d'or from Journées cinématographiques de Carthage, Griot Best Film from African Film…

Known For

Decor

Maha has always been passionate about cinema, and as a set designer she's become an expert at creating imaginary worlds. Under immense pressure at work, she sights another life on the horizon and begins slipping between realities-one resembling the film set she's designed and the other her supposed real life. As she grows ever more entangled in each, the border between reality and imagination becomes blurred, and she must choose for the first time what she truly desires.

Eye of the Sun

Eye of the Sun · 2009

Shams is a young girl who resides in the local neighborhood of Ain Shams. The life of the family turns into a tragedy when they learn their young Shams has leukemia, and they try to fulfill her only wish to visit Downtown Cairo.

18 Days

18 Days · 2011

10 filmmakers provide 10 separate stories focusing on the 18 days of the 2011 Egyptian revolution. Ten stories they have experienced, heard, or imagined.

Exterior/Night

Exterior/Night · 2018

MovieAdventureDrama

When a day in the life of a beleaguered Egyptian filmmaker goes sideways, he witnesses anew issues like class and gender relations.

The Inevitable Journey to Find a Wedding Dress

The Inevitable Journey to Find a Wedding Dress · 2024

The Inevitable Journey to Find a Wedding Dress

MovieDramaComedy

On the eve of her wedding in Cairo, Warda's perfect white gown is ruined, sparking a frantic search across the city. What begins as a mission to replace a dress becomes a deeper journey into her identity, her relationships and the life she's about to step into.

Hide and Seek

Hide and Seek · 2006

MovieDramaRomance

A group of friends gathers to celebrate the wedding of two of them, and they suggest spending the night role-playing and doing charades where they represent each others' characters, with their merits and demerits. Can what started as a game end as a trial?

Heliopolis

Heliopolis · 2009

8 characters skew lifelines that never really intersect in the suburb of Heliopolis in Cairo within a frame of time of 24 hours all in a very stagnant state and never achieving goals.

Stray Cats

Stray Cats · 2005

MovieDramaRomance

A short feature about a prostitute named Dunia who spends the night with Amir, a rich man who loves Cairo at night. But when she returns the 500 dollars he gave her for their night of passion, he looks forward to spending another night with her after falling for her.

Filmography

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Decor

Maha has always been passionate about cinema, and as a set designer she's become an expert at creating imaginary worlds. Under immense pressure at work, she sights another life on the horizon and begins slipping between realities-one resembling the film set she's designed and the other her supposed real life. As she grows ever more entangled in each, the border between reality and imagination becomes blurred, and she must choose for the first time what she truly desires.

Director

Eye of the Sun

Eye of the Sun · 2009

Shams is a young girl who resides in the local neighborhood of Ain Shams. The life of the family turns into a tragedy when they learn their young Shams has leukemia, and they try to fulfill her only wish to visit Downtown Cairo.

Editor

18 Days

18 Days · 2011

10 filmmakers provide 10 separate stories focusing on the 18 days of the 2011 Egyptian revolution. Ten stories they have experienced, heard, or imagined.

Writer

Exterior/Night

Exterior/Night · 2018

MovieAdventureDrama

When a day in the life of a beleaguered Egyptian filmmaker goes sideways, he witnesses anew issues like class and gender relations.

Director

The Inevitable Journey to Find a Wedding Dress

The Inevitable Journey to Find a Wedding Dress · 2024

The Inevitable Journey to Find a Wedding Dress

MovieDramaComedy

On the eve of her wedding in Cairo, Warda's perfect white gown is ruined, sparking a frantic search across the city. What begins as a mission to replace a dress becomes a deeper journey into her identity, her relationships and the life she's about to step into.

Creative Producer

Hide and Seek

Hide and Seek · 2006

MovieDramaRomance

A group of friends gathers to celebrate the wedding of two of them, and they suggest spending the night role-playing and doing charades where they represent each others' characters, with their merits and demerits. Can what started as a game end as a trial?

Editor

Heliopolis

Heliopolis · 2009

8 characters skew lifelines that never really intersect in the suburb of Heliopolis in Cairo within a frame of time of 24 hours all in a very stagnant state and never achieving goals.

Screenplay

Stray Cats

Stray Cats · 2005

MovieDramaRomance

A short feature about a prostitute named Dunia who spends the night with Amir, a rich man who loves Cairo at night. But when she returns the 500 dollars he gave her for their night of passion, he looks forward to spending another night with her after falling for her.

Editor

The Forest

The Forest · 2008

A group of homeless kids and their struggle to earn money by going through trash,stealing,disturbing drugs and prostitution. The film sheds the light on what makes them do up-normal behaviors to survive and that society and government are responsible for this spreading of this issue.

Editor

Encrypted Letter

Encrypted Letter · 2008

Encrypted Letter

MovieComedyAdventure

Fayez discovers a code sheet that his grandfather left to him before he was killed, of a treasure map in Jerusalem, drawn by the Jews fleeing to Egypt. He goes on an adventure with his friends, Ismail and Bedair, to search for the map hidden in an archaeological temple in Luxor.

Editor

The Average White Man

The Average White Man · 2001

The Average White Man

Zaghloul is a young inventor who is trying to save his household from collapse. In an attempt to get the money, he decides to break into the villa of the businessman Adham, but his attempt is thwarted as he finds himself in the yellow of the desert with Adham and Caramella.

Editor

Microphone

Microphone · 2010

Upon his return to Alexandria, Khaled becomes intrigued with a graffiti mural opposite his apartment. As he pursues this further, a larger underground arts scene slowly reveals itself, composed of musicians, filmmakers, and graffiti artists. As they struggle to get their voices heard, Khaled is compelled to help them acquire some much deserved visibility.

Director

The End of the World

The End of the World · 2006

The End of the World

MovieRomanceDrama

Salma is a TV presenter who accidentally gets involved in the murder of a girl. Unable to move on, she consults a psychiatrist who turns out to be the deceased girl's brother. Will her crime stand in the way of their budding romance?

Editor

Ma'lesh Ehna Bnetbahdel

Ma'lesh Ehna Bnetbahdel · 2005

Ma'lesh Ehna Bnetbahdel

MovieComedyDrama

Al-Qarmouty owns a coffee shop in Nazlet El-Semman. When he sends his son, Wahid, to Baghdad to deliver a mango shipment to his friend Abu Adnan, he gets arrested for criticizing Saddam Hussein. As the US forces prepare to attack Iraq, Al-Qarmouty has to go to Iraq to find his son.

Editor

Account Statement

Account Statement · 2007

Account Statement

(Soha) works with the Police as a sketch artist,and falls in love with the mysterious decoration designer (Farid). When a girl gets raped, (Soha) draws the face of the perpetrator but finds it matching to Farid's. Even the victim accuses him of being the rapist. Did he commit the crime or not?

Editor

Cinderella in Arabic

Cinderella in Arabic · 2006

Cinderella in Arabic

MovieRomanceComedy

A gentle and dreamy girl who works as a costume assistant in a theater group faces troubles at work as the band's director and his son both love her, and at home as her stepmother prefers her own daughter to her and treats her unjustly. Can she find the balance her life lacks?

Editor

19B

In a dilapidated villa, lives an old doorman who watches the villa since the sixties of the last century, so it becomes his private world. But all of a sudden his stability is threatened by a young park attendant who wants to break into his private space, forcing him to face his fears. so now the doorman finds himself in an unexpected confrontation in which he rediscovers himself again.

Director

Rags & Tatters

Rags & Tatters · 2013

In one of the most extraordinary nights in the history of Egypt, the prisons were suddenly opened, leaving thousands of prisoners wandering the desert. Among them was one man trying to find his way in a city that is rapidly changing for good.

Screenplay

Asham

Set against the backdrop of the unrest during the pre-revolution period of January 25, 2011, by following the stories of six relationships in different stages that express ambition, happiness and disappointments, that are connected with Asham , a street vendor, who expresses optimism about Egypt's future.

Editor

What's Going on?

What's Going on? · 2002

What's Going on?

Two Friends decide to get married in the same night, after being subjected to a big family decision to their marriage of two girls from a hostile family to finish the seas of blood resulting from revenge between two families.

Editor