Hesham Selim
1958 (68 лет)He began his acting career at the age of 12, playing one of Faten Hamama’s children in Empire M (1972). Four years later, he played a lead role in Youssef Chahine’s Return of the Prodigal Son (1976), which embedded in him a passion for acting for the rest of his life. Selim acted in many TV shows, among them El Helmeya Nights (1987-1995), Arabesque (1994), and The White Flag (1988). He has appeared in many known films such as Alexandria Again and Forever (1989), The Puppeteer (1989), and Land of Dreams (1993). In the wake of the 2011 Egyptian revolution, Selim became the host of the talk show Hiwar Al Qahira (Cairo Dialogue), a weekly program featuring live discussions with guests on political, social, and economic issues on Sky News Arabia in 2012.
On May 5, 2020, he spoke on television about having a transgender son, in a rare public show of support for LGBT+ rights in Egypt. This segment and Selim’s acceptance of his son Nour in a country where gender issues remain taboo have won praise on social media, with many applauding Selim for his position and his decision to speak about it on Egyptian television.
Hesham Selim passed away at 64 after a long battle with lung cancer. He is survived by two daughters and a son.
الناظر
Sherif Arafa
Alaa Wali El Din, Ahmed Helmy
Ashour, Salaah’s father, runs his school with severity and cruelty. after Ashour's death, Salah inherits the job and lets Sayed, his deputy, take charge. Hussein the teacher makes a great effort to guide Salah to succeed in managing the school and achieve good results, while salah is dealing with his trust issues and his need to prove himself by getting out of his father's shadow. with the help of Hussien, his girlfriend Wafaa, and his two friends Atef and Lemby .. can he run the school his own way?
The Headmaster
أرض الأحلام
Daoud Abdel Sayed
Faten Hamamah, Yehia El-Fakharany
Narges prepares for immigration to America to join her kids, but she loses her passport before the flight, and sets out to search for it in the places she has been to or at her friends'. She meets a peculiar wizard, and experiences a series of events that will change her mind about her trip.
Land of Dreams
عودة الابن الضال
Youssef Chahine
Mahmoud el-Meliguy, Hoda Soltan
Freed after spending years in prison, an activist's homecoming turns into a dark affair as his disillusion clashes with his family's expectations. Demonstrating Chahine’s eclecticism, this is an elegant melodrama, exuberant musical, layered allegory, and profound portrait of personal and political disillusionment.
Return of the Prodigal Son
إمبراطورية م
Hussein Kamal
Ahmad Mazhar, Faten Hamamah
Well off widow working Mother "Mona" is struggling raising 6 kids at different ages ranging from elementary school to University graduating students. The day she thinks to bring a new husband home proves to be a very difficult task.
Empire M
إسكندرية كمان وكمان
Youssef Chahine
Youssef Chahine, Yousra
Set in 1987 against the backdrop of a hunger strike by the Egyptian film industry, Chahine himself steps in to play Yehia, the famed Egyptian director whose life is chronicled in "Alexandria, Why?" and "An Egyptian Story". Obsessed with Amr, the handsome actor he discovered and cast as his alter-ego in parts one and two of The Alexandria Trilogy, Yehia pressures Amr to star in various film projects that change even as Yehia's perception of the young actor begins to change. He first casts Amr as Hamlet, which the actor deems too demanding for his talents, then as the lead in a musical biopic of demigod Alexander the Great, who founded the city of Alexandria in 332 B.C.
Alexandria Again and Forever
يا مهلبية يا
Sherif Arafa
Layla Olwy, Hesham Selim
(Shukri) Director and his friend (Marei) screenwriter, cooperate and struggle in front of all obstacles to make a film about (reproach) popular dancer during the British occupation, which has a sense of national duty, it helps guerrillas with money and information, and contribute to the assassination attempt on King Farouk.
O, Mehalabeya
قليل من الحب كثير من العنف
Raafat El-Mihi
Layla Olwy, Hesham Selim
Talaat, the son of wealthy merchant Morsi, lives under pressure from his father to marry the poor girl Fatima. Talaat rebels on his father and divorces Fatima. He meets Eng. Younis, the son of a senior politician and decides to marry his sister to gain power and money.
Too Little Love.. Too Much Violence
La dame du Caire
Moumen Smihi
Ezzat El Alaili, Layla Olwy
In 1990, Moumen Smihi briefly re-located to Cairo in order to work in the shadow of one of the world’s largest commercial film industries. The film that resulted from his Cairo sojuourn is a complex, painterly critique of the Egyptian musical and cinema star system. At the same time, the film shows the divergent states of possibility or despair faced by men and women within a changing Egyptian society. Smihi’s film plays out over thirty years and the events of the Nasserite years and the Palestine / Israel conflict become integral to the narrative. By blending newsreel footage with his own lush cinematography, Smihi creates a complex portrait of contemporary Egyptian society in the post-war years.
The Lady from Cairo
خيانة مشروعة
Khaled Youssef
Hani Salama, Hesham Selim
In this intriguing and entertaining thriller, Khalid Youssef tells the story of a young, rich man (Hani Salama) who kills his wife and his brother when he finds them in bed together. After he evades prosecution we start to wonder whether the killings were really spontaneous or if perhaps he had plotted everything in advance to get rid of both of them. Told from shifting perspectives in the style of Akira Kurosawa's Rashomon, including those of the hero, his mistress and a police detective investigating the case, the film moves around the murders cleverly, in a manner as unconventional and exciting as the story itself. Very convincing characters are involved in a game that requires a hefty dose of imagination from the audience. The film contains violence.
Justified Betrayal
العاصفة
Khaled Youssef
Hani Salama, Hanan Turk
Ever wonder what it was like to be in the middle east during the Gulf War of the early 90s? Sure, many films and TV shows have portrayed what it was like for the UN forces. This film takes you into the melee from the perspective of Egyptians -- who were sharply divided about the war -- and their daily lives, which, as one sees, form the basis of their foundation for understanding/approaching the war. And it really is these "every day" realities that make up the bulk of the film.
The Storm
بصمات فوق الماء
Yassin Ismail Yassin
Farouk Al-Fishawy, Mervat Amin
A happily married couple with their daughter are being pursued by the ghost of the husband's sister, as she killed the family's dog and cat and continues to kill several family members in retaliation for a situation that happened to her before her death.
Fingerprints On Water
الجبلاوي
Adel El Aassar
Kamal el-Shennawi, Samah Anwar
When a dispute happens between Hassan and Jeblawi , Hassan causes the factory owner, said, to fire Jeblawi. Jablawi works for drug dealer Abbas and steals money from him. He returns to town and buys Said's factory at an auction. Abbas and his men find Jeblawi and work out a deal.
El-Gabalawy
