Khaled El Hagar

Director

January 3, 1963 (63 years)

Egypt

Biography

Director Khaled El Hagar graduated from Law School 1987 from Cairo University. He worked as an assistant to the legendary director Youssef Chahine. Later on he went to study cinema at Beaconsfield in the UK and graduated from that in 1994. Khaled El Hagar was one of the lecturers in the Berlin workshop for young talents as the only Egyptian to do so. His films were screened in almost 150 international film festivals such as Cannes, Montreal, Rotterdam and New York. He won 35 awards both inter…

Filmography

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Shams

The story follows a woman called Shams who's very attached to her father. After a failed marriage, she decides to open an orphanage and workshops for unemployed girls, until an accident changes her life forever.

5.0

Laila's Wedding

Laila is considered a spinster due to her refusal to wed, which is born out of her fear of getting breast cancer like her mother. As she gets embroiled in trouble after her sister gets married in secret, Laila's life turns upside down when she meets an Egyptian man, who is searching for his mother.

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Shubra Rotation

In Shubra, a group of residents interacts with each other in a tapestry that highlights the extent of tolerance extant between the Muslim and Coptic communities through times of both conflict and harmony.

6.0

Room to Rent

Ali is a young Egyptian screenwriter determined to succeed in London, where he has been a student. He loves the artistic and political freedom, the colours, the music, the individualism. But he has little money, his student visa is about to expire and he has been thrown out of his lodgings. And so Ali moves in with a succession of eccentric and colourful London flatmates: Mark, a photographer with a very individual style, Linda, a young, blonde, very sexy model and Marilyn Monroe impersonator, and Miss Stevenson who is convinced that Ali is the reincarnation of her long dead Egyptian lover.

7.0

Girl's Love

The story of three half-sisters who are united when their father dies and his will dictates they live together if they are to get their inheritance. The three sisters; the passionate Nada, the westernized Roqaya, and the tempered Ghada, have to work out their differences.

4.5

Sins of the Flesh

Hassan and Fatma are a couple, living and working in a farm of wealthy owner Mourad. In the first days of the Jan 25th revolution, Ali seizes a security breach to break out of jail and runs to his cousin Hassan, for shelter. The latter takes him in but soon after, Mourad discovers the love that Fatma and Ali shared, years ago. This romantic history, fuelled by mounting sexual frustration, will come back to haunt all those involved.

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Lust

In Alexandria, Fatma needs money for her youngest son's weekly kidney dialysis. She travels to Cairo to beg away from home, after she collects enough money she returns to discover her son's death. She decides to protect her two daughters from poverty so she returns to Cairo to continue to beg.

5.0

Stolen Kisses

A couple's relationship experiences some ups and downs as the societal pressures put upon them get increasingly burdensome.

1.0

None But That!

"Nahed" (Nabila Ebeid) as the Greedy Mother fight over "Dina" (Arwa) the innocent talent who falls in love with "Nader" (Khaled Abol Naga) as a Music Talent Hunter & Famous icon/Director & shatters her Family apart when she becomes a big success.

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Shihana

Saudi girl Shihana, who used to enjoy life and look at the world from a lovely perspective, finds herself trapped in the darkest place of terror and destruction when she finds herself in the ISIS organization, and she tries to break out from the surrounding deaths.

5.5

Immobilia Crime Story

Kamel Helmy is a famous writer, in the late 1940s, living in Cairo, in the famous Imobilia building, after the death of his wife and the departure of his children from home. He suffers from loneliness and schizophrenia. One day he calls a girl named Samah who had befriended Facebook in an attempt to ease his isolation.

10.0

Little Dreams

Gharib recalls his life’s journey, which intersects with what the city of Suez experienced over two centuries through the Triple aggression and the Defeat of 1967. Gharib meets Mahmoud, who had been with his father in the people's resistance and they work together in resistance activities.

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