Directing
Kamla Abu Zekry
Born
1974-01-08 (52)
Place of birth
Egypt
Known for
Directing
Credits
13 titles
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 (Za…
Known for
An old man receives a letter from his son and goes to the train station to meet him. He waits, but his son doesn't arrive. He then decides to go and see the stationmaster.
The Six O' Clock Train
1998
NRThe Screenwriter podcast with Wael Hamdy focuses primarily on the role of the screenwriter and the importance of screenwriting as a crucial first step in film and television production. In each episode, Wael Hamdy hosts one of his friends, a prominent screenwriter in Egypt, to explore the meaning and significance of the screenwriting profession, discussing its details and challenges, and how a written script is transformed into a film or series. Guests share their professional experiences in screenwriting, recounting the highs and lows of their journeys. Each conversation reveals new secrets from behind the scenes of drama and filmmaking, offering inspiration and expertise to anyone interested in starting or developing their skills in the world of screenwriting.
El Scenarist
2025
6.610 filmmakers provide 10 separate stories focusing on the 18 days of the 2011 Egyptian revolution. Ten stories they have experienced, heard, or imagined.
18 Days
2011
5.5Omar 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.
About Love and Passion
2006
The anguish and fear of a girl in Cairo. She has committed perjury. To defend herself from the accusations of her uncle who saw her flirting with a boy on a bridge crossing the Nile, she told a falsehood after swearing on the Koran. Terrified by the consequences of her sacrilegious gesture, she shuts herself up at home to pray. When her uncle ends up in hospital one day, for the girl, it is a clear sign of divine justice
Looking towards the sky
2004
6.6The opening of a new swimming pool is the talk of the town – particularly because Sunday has been announced as a day for women.
A Day for Women
2016
Film credits
2000s · 3 titles
NRSix 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.
Women Who Loved Cinema
2002
8.5The 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.
Klephty
2004
5.0After Ali is accepted into the Red Sea Academy for Tourism, he gets a scholarship in Switzerland where he falls for a Swiss girl. Meanwhile, Atef falls for his Lebanese friend Nada, who is also pursued by Ali.
How to Get Girls to Fall for You
2003
Series credits
Behind the camera
An old man receives a letter from his son and goes to the train station to meet him. He waits, but his son doesn't arrive. He then decides to go and see the stationmaster.
The Six O' Clock Train
1998
6.610 filmmakers provide 10 separate stories focusing on the 18 days of the 2011 Egyptian revolution. Ten stories they have experienced, heard, or imagined.
18 Days
2011
5.5Omar 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.
About Love and Passion
2006
The anguish and fear of a girl in Cairo. She has committed perjury. To defend herself from the accusations of her uncle who saw her flirting with a boy on a bridge crossing the Nile, she told a falsehood after swearing on the Koran. Terrified by the consequences of her sacrilegious gesture, she shuts herself up at home to pray. When her uncle ends up in hospital one day, for the girl, it is a clear sign of divine justice
Looking towards the sky
2004
6.6The opening of a new swimming pool is the talk of the town – particularly because Sunday has been announced as a day for women.
A Day for Women
2016
5.6Many 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.
One-Zero
2009
6.5Mahmoud 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.
Double Faces
2005
4.0When 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.
First Year of Deception
2004
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