
Amr Salama
Directing
Biography
Amr Salama is an Egyptian film director, blogger, screenplayer and writer. Born in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (22 November 1981), he would later move with his family back to Egypt. He began his directing career primarily with short movies and commercials, after which he shifted to full-length movies.
Known For

Set in a middle-class Cairo apartment building, The Seventh Neighbour weaves together the private lives of residents who project happiness and stability to the world while quietly battling their own secrets, struggles and conflicts behind closed doors. With interconnected storylines spanning love, marriage, family pressure and social tension, it's a warm, relatable ensemble drama about the hidden lives of ordinary people living side by side.
Sabe' Gar

The Arabic version of the popular, late-night comedy sketch show features celebrity guests, parodies, and a variety of laugh-out-loud antics.
Saturday Night Live Arabia

Set in the 1960s; Paranormal follows the adventures of Dr. Refaat Ismail, a professor of hematology, as he comes up against various supernatural events with the help of his Scottish old flame, Maggie.
Paranormal

An Egyptian doctor becomes a police informant and uses his rare gift of tracking ancient artifacts in the smuggling business.
Tayee

Al Bernameg is a popular Egyptian satirical program. The series is hosted by satirical comedian Bassem Youssef on the satellite channel CBC. The press has compared it to The Daily Show hosted by Jon Stewart, which was the inspiration for this show. Youssef visited The Daily Show as a guest in April 2013, while Stewart, on hiatus from his own hosting duties, returned the favor on El Bernameg in June 2013.
Al Bernameg

(Marwan Salem) is a very successful plastic surgeon, but he is not in agreement with those close to him. His mother, wife, and friends are planning to withhold important legal contracts that Marwan is trying to reach with all his might. He is exposed to a car accident, which causes him to lose his memory, while his mother and his wife and friends try to exploit the situation in their favor, and they mislead Marwan and tell him lies.
Devil's Wish

The series delves into real Egyptian crimes, highlighting investigations and trials that marked key moments in judicial history.
Sa'atu we Tarikhu

A violent storm floods Cairo’s streets, forcing 14 strangers from different walks of life to seek shelter in a downtown café. As the night unfolds, a sudden power outage ends with one of them murdered, and paranoia grips the room as they realize the killer is among them.
Prestige

Bimbo is a drug dealer who is willing to repay his debts after getting robbed and losing all his money. The events unfold to turn Bimbo into a detective in a murder and disappearance case. Bimbo is a drug dealer who is willing to repay his debts after getting robbed and losing all his money.
Bimbo

Nour is a 13-year-old orphan living in the countryside in the early 1980s. He is smart, but is also a compulsive liar with vision problems and wears eyeglasses that don't quite remedy his weakened eyesight. To gain the respect of his fellow classmates, he ventures inside a haunted house right in front of the school, one that all the kids are afraid to enter. Inside, he finds a solitary old man who's hiding from the world. A friendship and apprenticeship are born between the boy and the old man, initiating a journey of self-discovery that lies at the very heart of this light-hearted drama.
Bara El Manhag

The Egyptian courts hear a lot of significant cases, and they handle the facts and motivations of these cases in a thrilling, theatrical setting.
Sa'atu we Tarikhu S2

Ahmad’s life goes downhill when he crosses paths with a menacing gang and finds himself teaming up with a young woman to confront them and fight for survival.
Ibn El Hagg Ahmad

A Christian kid suddenly is forced to go to a public school after his father dies and because of a misunderstanding everyone thinks that he's a Muslim.
Excuse My French

A struggling family is attempting to deal with the consequences of a horrible catastrophe.
Sixty Egyptian Pounds

When five kids are abducted on their way to school, the parents turn to the police, but their grandmothers decide to their matters into their own hands.
Apple of my Eyes

The sudden death of Michael Jackson sends a former King of Pop devotee — now a young imam — into a tailspin, in this tender and comedic film from Egyptian filmmaker Amr Salama.
Sheikh Jackson

A divorced young man happens to fall in love. The couple faces problems, as the young man does not want to settle down, she thinks he is a flirt, they break up, and events follows.
Snakes and Ladders

Three women seek justice due to the difficult daily situation which sexual harassment causes in the streets of Cairo, Egypt.
Cairo 6,7,8

Hussein is a terminally ill yet charming architect who enjoys a solitary routine in his old family home, and a variety of female visitors. Not realizing his past is about to catch up with him, Hussein's sister and her grandson move into the house, disrupting a well-established lifestyle, and forcing him to re-examine his ideas about life, love, and family.
Villa 69

The film tackles pressures that are placed upon is in life by telling the story of a businessman who falls in love with a girl, when his life reaches a stage of explosive pressures.