Maher Selim

Acting

Maher Selim

Egypt

Maher Ali Ahmed Selim obtained a Bachelor of Theatrical Arts, Department of Acting and Directing. He acted in the Vanguard Theater about 20 plays by Samir El-Asfouri, most notably The Bald Singer, and Cairo 80. He obtained a postgraduate Diploma at the Academy of Arts in directing for three years. He received a scholarship in 1992 at the Accademia Nazionale d'Arte Drammatica Silvio D'Amico, directing department. He participated in many international festivals such as in Carthage and Jordan.

Acting credits

The Treasure: Truth & Imagination poster
7.0

The events revolve around three eras: the Pharaonic era, the Mamluk era, and the first half of the 20th century. The events revolve around corruption and the power of some clerics over the ages to power and false and bad dealings with the people, and how to involve religion in politics in order to obtain positions. That there are clerics deliberately coloring and counterfeiting in this period of time to be the strongest and maintain their positions.

The Treasure: Truth & Imagination

2017

The Visit Is Over poster
NR

Directed by : Samir Al Asfory

The Visit Is Over

1983

Girl's Love poster
7.0

The story of three half-sisters who are united when their father dies and his will dictates they live together if they are to get their inheritance. The three sisters; the passionate Nada, the westernized Roqaya, and the tempered Ghada, have to work out their differences.

Girl's Love

2004

Shehata's Store poster
6.3

Shehata is the son of a modest gardener who saved all his money to open a fruit stand and named it after his favorite son. Shehata's siblings get so jealous of their brother and plot against him. A representation of the downfall of society and its decaying morals.

Shehata's Store

2009

A Stand Worthy of Men poster
6.9

A comedy about a group of friends as they get reunited to help one of their own find his way out of major trouble. As the situation gets more complicated, they are forced to take a trip to a coastal town.

A Stand Worthy of Men

2021

Chief Omar Harb poster
6.2

Omar Harb runs a gambling casino. A quiet young man lands a job at the casino, despite his family's abhorrence and disapproval, to get the money necessary for his marriage. He excels at work and catches the attention of the manager who chooses him for a challenging task.

Chief Omar Harb

2008

Destiny poster
6.8

In the 12th century's Andalusia lives Ibn Rushd a prominent Islamic philosopher with his wife Zeinab and daughter Salma. The principality is ruled by Khalifa ElMansour who has two sons, ElNasser, an intellectual that likes Ibn Rush and is in love with his daughter Salma. The younger son Abdallah is more into dancing and poetry, spending most of his times with the gypsy family and getting the daughter pregnant. The Khalifa is depending on the extremists to build his army granting them more power which they use to combat artists and philosophers. The extremists succeed in recruiting Abd Allah and train him to kill his father. Events go on where Marawan, the gypsy singer, is killed and Ibn Rushd's books are burnt. Adapted from the real life of Ibn Rushd AlMasir is Chahine's statement against extremism.

Destiny

1997

The Promise poster
4.6

Sahrawi ,the leader of a gang decides to get rid of Yousef, one of his old men after he has cancer and taking money belonging to the gang. He entrusts Adel to eliminate him, as well as Farah to follow Adel, but they fall in love. Then Yousef and Adel become friends.

The Promise

2008

Alexandria Again and Forever poster
5.1

Set in 1987 against the backdrop of a hunger strike by the Egyptian film industry, Chahine himself steps in to play Yehia, the famed Egyptian director whose life is chronicled in "Alexandria, Why?" and "An Egyptian Story". Obsessed with Amr, the handsome actor he discovered and cast as his alter-ego in parts one and two of The Alexandria Trilogy, Yehia pressures Amr to star in various film projects that change even as Yehia's perception of the young actor begins to change. He first casts Amr as Hamlet, which the actor deems too demanding for his talents, then as the lead in a musical biopic of demigod Alexander the Great, who founded the city of Alexandria in 332 B.C.

Alexandria Again and Forever

1989

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

Chaos, This Is? poster
7.1

Hatem is a corrupt police officer, who loves his neighbor Nour, who in turn loves the prosecutor, Sherif. Hatem tries to win Nour’s attention even if by force.

Chaos, This Is?

2007

The Emigrant poster
5.8

The biblical tale of Joseph is told from an Egyptian perspective in this interesting character study. In this film, Joseph is called Ram. Ram, tired of his family's backward superstitious life, and tired of being picked on by his brothers, wants to go to Egypt to study agriculture. His brothers travel with him across Sinai, but then suddenly sell him to Ozir, an Egyptian who works for a Theban military leader, Amihar. Amihar is impressed by Ram's drive and personal charm and so grants Ram some desolate land outside the capital. Ram soon finds himself a pawn in the political and sexual games between Amihar and his wife Simihit, a high priestess of the Cult of Amun.

The Emigrant

1994

A Cultural Film poster
7.1

Three sexually-frustrated friends are determined to watch a porno video but have no private place, no VCR, and no TV, so they go on a misadventure in which their group constantly increases, taking on more and more sexually-frustrated people and falling into one mishap after another, all because of the restrictions of society.

A Cultural Film

2000

Until Things Get Better poster
5.8

A film highlighting the issue of street children and the marginalized social class living under the pressure of economic conditions in a shanty district. Nahid escapes from her stepfather’s harassment only to become a victim of a horrible rape incident. She then becomes a dancer.

Until Things Get Better

2007

Halim poster
7.3

The film displays the life of legendary singer(Abd Alhalim Hafez) in various stages. Depicting many sides of his artistic and personal life since his early childhood.

Halim

2006

Min Khaf Selim poster
NR

The film tells of dangerous life-threatening documents that are handed over to the hero from his boss at work to hand over to the big man without knowing their seriousness, but the old man thinks badly about the manager, so he kills him and accuses the hero of it.

Min Khaf Selim

1987

The Sixth Day poster
5.4

Egypt, 1947: in the midst of a cholera outbreak. A washerwoman tries to take care of her family, while at the same time resisting the advances of a charming suitor who's half her age.

The Sixth Day

1986

Please Call Me poster
5.0

Ibrahim Toshkee, a non-talented who wants to become an actor. When he faces failure, he utilizes his wits into coning people, which leads him to many problems. In the meantime, he is in a love with his neighbor "Abla" and having an affair with a prostitute “Ashgan”.

Please Call Me

2010

Amar’s Hand poster
6.8

Following the death of her husband, Amar is left to carry out her deceased husband’s dream of building a brick house with her five children. The five boys move to Cairo to earn some money, but they struggle to make ends meet and achieve their dreams in the capital.

Amar’s Hand

2011

Azazel Son of the Devil poster
NR

With an evil magic spell, the devil (Azazel, son of Iblis) is prepared to harm an innocent girl (Rowan Fouad). Azazel asks for a sacrifice from the woman who prepared the spell. The sacrifice is accepted, and the magic is performed. Azazel disguises the girl and makes her do terrifying and crazy things. However, her childhood sweetheart (Ayman Ismail), who happens to have the ability to detect possession, learns the news. Together, the two lovers unite to defeat the devil (Azazel).

Azazel Son of the Devil

2015

Lust poster
7.0

In Alexandria, Fatma needs money for her youngest son's weekly kidney dialysis. She travels to Cairo to beg away from home, after she collects enough money she returns to discover her son's death. She decides to protect her two daughters from poverty so she returns to Cairo to continue to beg.

Lust

2011

Fish, Milk, Tamarind poster
9.0

When Ahmed's father travels abroad for work, he gets harassed for refusing to give a part of his income to those who helped him travel. The father dies, and when his body arrives in Egypt, the Interpol suspects Ahmed and his father of being members of a terrorist organization.

Fish, Milk, Tamarind

1988

Alexandria... New York poster
6.7

An enthralling look at the relationship between America and the Arab World from an Arab perspective. It tells the story of Yehia, a renowned Egyptian filmmaker whose life has been shaped by a pair of disrupted love affairs, one with an American woman named Ginger, the other with America itself.

Alexandria... New York

2004

Stolen Kisses poster
5.0

A couple's relationship experiences some ups and downs as the societal pressures put upon them get increasingly burdensome.

Stolen Kisses

2008