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Khairy Beshara
Khairy Beshara is an Egyptian film and television director. He was born and lived his first five years in Tanta, then moved to Cairo with his mother who worked there. He studied film directing at the High Institute of Cinema and graduated in 1967. He then worked as an assistant director, and moved to Poland for a year for his post-graduate studies, where he met his wife. Upon his return to Egypt, he continued working as an assistant director, in addition to teaching acting and screenwriting at the institute. In the period between 1974 and 1986, he directed 12 documentary and short fiction films. His first feature length film was an Egyptian-Algerian co-production, and took 4 years to produce. It finally premiered in 1982. He then went on to direct 11 other feature films, most of which were critically acclaimed and gained cult followings, and several television series.
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Memories of Hani Shenouda
As for the Weather
Sunday at Five
Curfew
Kiss Me Not
Photocopy
Before the Summer Crowds
Factory Girl
Villa 69
Downtown Girls
Double Faces
Klephty
Best Times
Very Hot Day
Knight of the City
Dilapidated Woman
Silence!
Eshtibah
Nightmare
The Wife of an Important Man
The Third Class
Dreams of Hind and Camilia
The Vagabonds
Half a Rabbit
A Dinner Date
A Bird on the Road
Sleepless Eyes