Maher Essam
Birthday: 1979-10-05
Place of Birth: Egypt
Biography: Maher Essam was born in Imbaba. He started his acting career when he was only 5 years old with the famous director Youssef Chahine. Hassan Abd El Salam cast him in the adapted play “Zoqaq El Madaa.”
Movies
The Bulbul's Nest
A comedy about a taxi driver who wants to achieve his goal of becoming a famous singer. He finds him...
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Lion Heart
Kidnapped as a child and raised in the circus, a young lion tamer's tough side emerges when he gets ...
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The Sixth Day
Egypt, 1947: in the midst of a cholera outbreak. A washerwoman tries to take care of her family, whi...
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Qarmat in Trouble
Qarmouti builds a graveyard for his ancestors, and makes it a paid tourists attraction; this causes ...
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High School Freshmen
When Surgeon Hamza commits a mistake that leads to the death of a child, he's sentenced to jail and ...
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September 11
An anthology of short films inspired by the events of the September 11 World Trade Center attacks....
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Back to School Troublemakers
A young teacher heads to her new workplace in a private school where most of the students are the ch...
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A Lineage issue
A family consisting of a husband, wife, and seven half-siblings. Each of them has his own problems, ...
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Marriage by Presidential Decree
An employee in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs decides to marry a girl of a higher social status. At...
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Fawazia The Bourgeoisie
The film focuses on the relationship between people with different political views, through the resi...
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18 Days
10 filmmakers provide 10 separate stories focusing on the 18 days of the 2011 Egyptian revolution. T...
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The Gate of the Sun
Yousry Nasrallah's powerful adaptation of Lebanese writer Elias Khoury's epic novel of fifty years o...
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Salem: His Sister's Father
Salem is a poor street vendor who has been taking care of his sister since their parents died. After...
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Azazeel
With a wicked magic spell, the devil (Azazel, the son of Satan) is prepared to harm an innocent girl...
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Professional Guys
Seba'y is an unsuccessful football coach in the Dokki Sports Club. As he tries to marry his sweethea...
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A Girl from Dar El Salam
The film follows Manal, a young girl living in the poor town of Dar Elsalam in Cairo. After she grad...
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Closed Doors
During the Gulf War, Fatma works as a maid for a wealthy man, and her son Mohammed is suffering from...
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The Tiger and The Female
Officer Wahid is assigned to work undercover to enter the ring of the largest drug trafficker, he us...
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We're Sorry, Sir
A drama that depicts the life of a group of young people as they decide to be of use to society, but...
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Chaos, This Is?
Hatem is a corrupt police officer, who loves his neighbor Nour, who in turn loves the prosecutor, Sh...
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Silence... We're Rolling
Malak is a star singer who lives with her mother and her daughter, Loula, in her villa after her div...
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The Talisman
High school teacher Mahmoud lives with his entire family in a tiny apartment. The landlord's attempt...
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Rayya and Sekina at Marina
The historical tale of Raya and Sakina, two serial killers, is retold in a contemporary comedic way;...
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Cry of an Ant
The role of the film as part of a comic story deals with the circumstances of life and social and ec...
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