Amr Wishahy

Acting

Amr Wishahy

Born

1982-06-16 (44)

Place of birth

Cairo, Egypt

Known for

Acting

Credits

14 titles

A multidisciplinary visual artist working across filmmaking, photography, and illustration. Holding a Bachelor’s degree in Furniture Design and a Diploma in Filmmaking, his diverse practice bridges cinematic storytelling with design precision and visual experimentation. Wishahy’s work often revolves around human connection—between self, others, and the surrounding environment—exploring themes of self-discovery and existential inquiry.

Known for

Experimental Summer poster
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Both Mahmoud and Zeinab join hands to search for the original version of the first Egyptian independent film that was made back in the 1980s, all copies of which were either destroyed or confiscated for unknown reasons by the government film agency, an entity that governed film production and distribution at the time.

Experimental Summer

2017

Dream Number 1 poster
NR

The sea and the city. Man and woman. Fear, willingness, loss and regain. A journey full of encounters and engagements into which He plunges to regain his collapsed world, in a foggy mysterious passage between wake and dream. Inspired by Naguib Mahfouz’s The Dreams.

Dream Number 1

2015

Existence poster
NR

After reading I Am the Sultan of the Law of Existence by Youssef Idris, a five-day journey through Egypt’s Western Desert, traveling from north to south., covering 2,800 km and shooting for 35 hours, the expedition became both physical and existential. The desert’s vastness and silence echo the text’s meditation on the relationship between man, nature and the universe, transforming the landscape into an active force that reshapes perception and confronts the nature of existence.

Existence

2005

The Sky Is Falling poster
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In a very local egyption coffee roasting factory, the manager "Kafr" claims that the sky is falling outside and orders everyone not to leave, sparking chaos and leading to a crisis inside the factory.

The Sky Is Falling

2025

Dream #2 poster
NR

Him – Her – and what’s in between. A short experimental silent fiction film shot entirely on 16mm BW and colour film made in the tradition of classic silent-era filmmaking.

Dream #2

2016

Qahera poster
NR

A series of events unfold over the course of one single day in Cairo creating a chain reaction that begins with the oldest and most dominant character and ends with the weakest link of the chain.

Qahera

2007

Film credits

Behind the camera

Dream Number 1 poster
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The sea and the city. Man and woman. Fear, willingness, loss and regain. A journey full of encounters and engagements into which He plunges to regain his collapsed world, in a foggy mysterious passage between wake and dream. Inspired by Naguib Mahfouz’s The Dreams.

Dream Number 1

2015

Dream Number 1 poster
NR

The sea and the city. Man and woman. Fear, willingness, loss and regain. A journey full of encounters and engagements into which He plunges to regain his collapsed world, in a foggy mysterious passage between wake and dream. Inspired by Naguib Mahfouz’s The Dreams.

Dream Number 1

2015

Dream Number 1 poster
NR

The sea and the city. Man and woman. Fear, willingness, loss and regain. A journey full of encounters and engagements into which He plunges to regain his collapsed world, in a foggy mysterious passage between wake and dream. Inspired by Naguib Mahfouz’s The Dreams.

Dream Number 1

2015

Existence poster
NR

After reading I Am the Sultan of the Law of Existence by Youssef Idris, a five-day journey through Egypt’s Western Desert, traveling from north to south., covering 2,800 km and shooting for 35 hours, the expedition became both physical and existential. The desert’s vastness and silence echo the text’s meditation on the relationship between man, nature and the universe, transforming the landscape into an active force that reshapes perception and confronts the nature of existence.

Existence

2005

Existence poster
NR

After reading I Am the Sultan of the Law of Existence by Youssef Idris, a five-day journey through Egypt’s Western Desert, traveling from north to south., covering 2,800 km and shooting for 35 hours, the expedition became both physical and existential. The desert’s vastness and silence echo the text’s meditation on the relationship between man, nature and the universe, transforming the landscape into an active force that reshapes perception and confronts the nature of existence.

Existence

2005

Dream #2 poster
NR

Him – Her – and what’s in between. A short experimental silent fiction film shot entirely on 16mm BW and colour film made in the tradition of classic silent-era filmmaking.

Dream #2

2016

Dream #2 poster
NR

Him – Her – and what’s in between. A short experimental silent fiction film shot entirely on 16mm BW and colour film made in the tradition of classic silent-era filmmaking.

Dream #2

2016

Dream #2 poster
NR

Him – Her – and what’s in between. A short experimental silent fiction film shot entirely on 16mm BW and colour film made in the tradition of classic silent-era filmmaking.

Dream #2

2016

Qahera poster
NR

A series of events unfold over the course of one single day in Cairo creating a chain reaction that begins with the oldest and most dominant character and ends with the weakest link of the chain.

Qahera

2007

Qahera poster
NR

A series of events unfold over the course of one single day in Cairo creating a chain reaction that begins with the oldest and most dominant character and ends with the weakest link of the chain.

Qahera

2007

Qahera poster
NR

A series of events unfold over the course of one single day in Cairo creating a chain reaction that begins with the oldest and most dominant character and ends with the weakest link of the chain.

Qahera

2007