Kamla Abu Zekry

Directing

Kamla Abu Zekry

Born 1974-01-08 · Egypt

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.

Acting credits

Behind the camera

18 Days poster
6.9

10 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

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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

A Day for Women poster
6.6

The 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

About Love and Passion poster
5.2

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.

About Love and Passion

2006

First Year of Deception poster
4.4

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.

First Year of Deception

2004

One-Zero poster
5.5

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.

One-Zero

2009

Double Faces poster
6.5

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.

Double Faces

2005

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NR

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Stupid livelihood

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NR

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