Kamla Abu Zekry

An Egyptian director, she graduated from the Higher Institute of Cinema. She began her artistic career by working as a second assistant director in the film (131 Works) by director Nader Galal in 1993. Then she directed her first short film (Six O’Clock Train), and then returned to work as an assistant director. In the films (Hello America), (Watch, Peace), and (Al-Lumbi), starring the artist (Mohamed Saad), and (How Do You Make Girls Love You), until she directed her first film (First Year of Nasab) in 2004, followed by the films (Malak and Kataba) ) and (About Love and Passion) and (One Zero). On the television level, she directed the sitcom series (6 Tahrir Square) in 2009, the series (Zat) in 2013, and the series (Nasa Prison) in 2014.

Works

Backbreaking

After being fooled by her husband into leaving Egypt, Rouh finds herself at an ISIS den in Syria, whereupon she tries to escape but ends up at a camp for female ISIS fugitives, while her return to Egypt becomes a distant dream.

Release Date:2022-04-16

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:15

Vote Count:2

Multifaceted

Sokkar is a professional swindler who gets outdone by Omar, another swindler. As she enters into a series of conflicts to get her money back from him, she eventually decides to unite with him to carry out bigger defrauding operations.

Release Date:2020-04-24

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:30

Vote Count:17

Sunset Oasis

The story revolves around the Egyptian police officer (Mahmoud Abdel-Zaher), who is transferred to the Siwa Oasis with his foreign wife, Catherine, who is passionate about Egyptian antiquities. Together they begin a new experience where the past blends with the present.

Release Date:2017-05-27

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:30

A Day for Women

The opening of a new swimming pool is the talk of the town – particularly because Sunday has been announced as a day for women.

Release Date:2016-10-06

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:6

Women's Jail

Based on true events, three women who have suffered various hardships and injustices throughout their lives are driven to carry out various crimes and end up in prison. This marks the start of a new phase for them that differs significantly from what they experienced before.

Release Date:2014-06-29

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:30

A Girl Named Zat

Based on Sonallah Ibrahim's celebrated novel, "Zaat" explores the social and political winds of change in Egypt starting from 1952, when the main character "Zaat" was born, all the way up to the present day.

Release Date:2013-08-02

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:31

Vote Count:4

18 Days

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

Release Date:2011-09-06

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:18

One-Zero

Many characters of different backgrounds with various problems have their lives intertwine, as they come together through the one thing that unites them; their love of Egypt as Egypt wins the African Cup.

Release Date:2009-03-04

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:10

6 Tahrir Square

The series revolves around a group of young people who live in the same hostel in Tahrir Square, and experience many funny and comedic situations during their stay together.

Release Date:2009-02-05

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:1

About Love and Passion

Omar and Alia are in love and decide to get married , but Omar discovers that her sister Fatima is infamous who works in a bar so he walks away from her, and marries Kismat , while Alia marries her childhood neighbor, but they do not find happiness and events escalate.

Release Date:2006-06-28

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:15

Double Faces

Mahmoud is a professor of acting, who lives an isolated life, a shift in his personality occurs when he discovers the betrayal of his wife with a young man, and meets a young actress who tries to make him live a different life.

Release Date:2005-01-01

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:4

First Year of Deception

When Khaled and Ahmed are unable to find a job, they decide to run a scam on elderly female tourists to get their money in Hurghada. But when they meet two girls who capture their hearts, they turn their lives around and participate in a tourist project.

Release Date:2004-01-23

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:5

Klephty

The film revolves around a man who can spend all of his life in a difficult life by lying and cheating. He is connected to a girl who seeks to marry him and is disappointed to be associated with another man until he finds himself alone, which causes him to continue the monument again.

Release Date:2004-01-01

Vote Count:2

How to Make Girls Love You?

A group of students get a scholarship in Switzerland, they happen to fall in love.

Release Date:2003-11-24

Department:Directing

Job:Assistant Director

Character:Etiquette Teacher

Vote Count:3

El Lemby

El-Limby lives in a decrepit neighborhood with his mother Faransa and he develops feelings for his neighbor. However, her father objects to their marriage, and El-Limby's mother encourages him to find a job to provide for his family-to-be.

Release Date:2002-10-06

Department:Directing

Job:Assistant Director

Vote Count:33

Women Who Loved Cinema

Six strong-willed women whose adventurous streak changed the face of film industry in early twentieth century Egypt – a time when the country was, despite the liberal ripples, still steeped in conservative tradition. The film shows how these women, different as they were in class and social background, broke taboos and dismissed conventional wisdom to fulfill their overpowering passion for filmmaking. Women Who Loved Cinema takes us to the past and brings us, seamlessly, to the present day. Aziza ... Fatema ... Behidja ... Amina ... Assia … Mary... theirs is a story that will remain indelibly etched in the memory of Egyptian cinema.

Release Date:2002-06-28

Character:Self

The Magician

Bahgat Mansour is an old poor magician that lives a bad life and tries to get a better one by reaching to the rich people. what happens to him and his daughter-that he keeps indoor- then?

Release Date:2001-12-30

Department:Directing

Job:Assistant Director

Vote Count:5

Look & Admire

After having no job, Medhat goes to work in a hotel in Sinai and he helps his friend Majid to get a job there. When Majid saves the life of an American tourist, she gives him third of her wealth before she dies, provided that he implements the will for the benefit of Israeli authorities.

Release Date:2001-03-26

Department:Directing

Job:Assistant Director

Vote Count:2

Hello America

Bakheet receives an invitation from his cousin Nawfal to visit him in America. Bakheet and Adela travel to search for wealth. In order to obtain residency, and to receive substantial compensation following a car accident.

Release Date:2000-01-08

Department:Directing

Job:Co-Director

Vote Count:14

Hassan Ellol

Hasan al-Lul is a poor young man. His father used to smuggle weapons to the guerrillas during the triple aggression. But 40 years later, his son Hassansmuggles watches and small goods into the cushions of his car. Hassan meets with a fair customs inspector who refuses to bribe. On the way to Port Said , he also meet with the beautiful Fatima Sarsawi, who lives with her father in Cairo. She goes to visit her drug-dealing father who runs a cartel and tries to get elected to the parliament.

Release Date:1997-02-19

Department:Directing

Job:Script Supervisor

Why Does the Sea Laugh

Hussein is in a state of extreme depression because of the boring routine of work and the pressures of life he faces as an employee, husband and brother, decides to escape from the reality of his work and his family, go out to the street without a goal to know the master who provides a place to stay, and while roaming recognize Naima One of the teams roams the streets and falls in love with her.

Release Date:1995-05-10

Department:Directing

Job:Assistant Director Trainee

Vote Count:1

Sponge and asphalt

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:1