Art

Onsi Abou Seif

Egypt

An Egyptian interior designer, Born in 1943 in Kom Ombo, Upper Egypt, graduated from the Higher Institute of Cinema in 1967, he worked in his early days as an assistant to the interior designer in the movie (The Mummy) with Shady Abdel Salam, to participate in the following year in the film (Diaries of a Deputy in the Countryside) as a landscape engineer, and his work continues after that (Alexandria violin and violin) Arak Al-Balah, Ayyam Sadat, Kit Kat, Sea Messages)

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The Search for Daoud Abdel Sayed

2026

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This autobiographical documentary questions how family films, recreated in studios, become intimate memory sites shaped by transnational identities and rapid socio-political change, erasing personal places and making migration—internal or external—an inevitable result.

Home Movie on Location

2025

Behind the camera

6.3

Travelling between Germany, France, and Tunisia, Viola Shafik reconstructs and deconstructs the unknown life story of El Hedi Ben Salem through interviews with his companions and family members as well as archival material. With openness and slight naivety, the interviewees explain how “Ali” became an oriental object of projection for the Fassbinder group, while El Hedi Ben Salem, the human being, was overlooked in order to establish the foreigner as “other.” A no-frills examination of a piece of German and Munich film history.

My Name Is Not Ali

2011