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Marwan Hamed

Marwan Hamed

Directing

Biography

Hamed possesses an extensively auspicious repertoire that extends over 20 years of experience in producing as well as directing films, in addition to directing over 300 commercials, TV drama series and music videos. Graduated from the High Institute of Cinema in 1999, Marwan Hamed started his cinematic career in 2000 as a Director Assistant in Souq Al Motaa film. While studying, he directed two short films and several documentaries, but what stood out from the crowd was his 40-minute Lilly, starring Amr Waked as a promising talent. Based on a short story by renowned Writer Yousef Idrees, the film was a great success, garnering various international awards including Prix du Public at Clermont Ferrand Film Festival, the Golden award at the Carthage Film Festival and Silver prize at Milano Film Festival for African Cinema. Marawan’s first feature The Yacoubian Building was the gateway to his success and was considered a big hit in 2005. Considered the largest budget set to produce an Egyptian film to date, boasting an all-star Egyptian cast including the Arab megastar Adel Imam and Yousra, the film was distributed in 12 countries across Europe, South America and the Arab world. The film dominated the Egyptian box office for the entire summer season and received around 200,000 admissions in France. The film was screened in a number of eminently distinguished film festivals including Berlin Film Festival in the Panorama section, the AFI Film Festival in USA, the Cannes Film Festival, the London Film Festival in London, the Chicago International Film Festival in USA, the Marrakech International Film Festival in Morocco, and the Thessaloniki International Film Festival in Greece. The Yacoubian Builiding won numerous awards including the Best New Narrative Filmmaker award at Tribeca Film Festival in 2006, the Golden Eye award at the Zurich Film Festival, Bronze award at the Montreal Film Festival and Grand Prix at Festival du Monde Arab France. Inspired by true events, Hamed’s second feature film was Ibrahim Labyad, which featured an array of Egypt's megastars including legendary actor Mahmoud Abdel Aziz, Ahmed El Sakka, Hend Sabry, and Amr Waked. The film grabbed the Egyptian audiences’ attention with its realistic portrayal of life in the slums and its abundance of violent details. The film was screened in Le Marche du Film at the Cannes Film Festival, Montreal Film Festival and Sao Paolo International Film Festival. Marwan also directed the short film 19/19, part of the movie 18 Days, a collection of 10 short films about the January 25th revolution in Egypt, directed by 10 Egyptian directors. The film premiered at Cannes Film Festival in 2011 in the official selection for special screenings. In 2014, Marwan directed El Feel El Azrak (The Blue Elephant), which is adapted from Egyptian writer Ahmed Mourad’s Egyptian best seller novel in 2012 of the same name that was listed on the Man Booker Prize 2012 shortlist. Starring Karim Abdel Aziz, Khaled El Sawy and Nelly Karim, the film is a psychological mystery that delves deep into the world of the paranormal. The Blue Elephant was distributed in Jordan as well as the GCC states and reaped 30,000,000 EGP in 45 days.

Known For

The Blue Elephant: Part III
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A Third part of The Blue Elephant Saga.

The Blue Elephant: Part III

El Sett
4.8

Ailing from a sickness that threatens to silence her forever, Umm Kalthoum, the greatest Egyptian singer the world has ever known, takes to the stage one final time for her most important performance yet, one with the potential to heal a nation broken by the shadow of a great defeat. As she slowly steps onto the stage to deafening chants and applause, fearful for her health and country, a legend finds herself walking down memory lane, reminiscing on her humble beginnings and the seven decade journey of triumphs, failures, defying social conventions, and loves lost that followed.

El Sett

2025
Critical Moments
8.0

A medical drama about the stories of a large number of doctors, staff and patients at Dr. Galal's hospital, and the daily challenges that the hospital staff faces both in their work and their personal lives.

Critical Moments

2007
Diamond Dust
7.6

Taha works as a pharmacist and lives a normal life with his disabled father. When a mysterious murder occurs, Taha's world changes forever. He starts tracking down many secrets that leads him to unlocks a whole melancholic world of crime!

Diamond Dust

2018
The Headmaster
7.7

Ashour, Salaah’s father, runs his school with severity and cruelty. after Ashour's death, Salah inherits the job and lets Sayed, his deputy, take charge. Hussein the teacher makes a great effort to guide Salah to succeed in managing the school and achieve good results, while salah is dealing with his trust issues and his need to prove himself by getting out of his father's shadow. with the help of Hussien, his girlfriend Wafaa, and his two friends Atef and Lemby .. can he run the school his own way?

The Headmaster

2000
The Yacoubian Building
7.4

The lives of residents in an old Cairo building, "The Yacoubian Building," are affected by issues like corruption, extremism, class disparity, and sexuality. Through diverse characters, the film offers a critical examination of Egyptian society.

The Yacoubian Building

2006
Kira & El Gen
8.1

The movie focuses on the fury state that was among the people in synchronization with the main event in Egypt: The 1919 Egyptian Revolution which unites the fates of Kira and El Gen to participate in the struggle against the British occupation.

Kira & El Gen

2022
The Blue Elephant
7.0

After a five-year hiatus, psychiatrist Yehia returns to work at Abbasiya Hospital. He’s assigned to evaluate a patient who turns out to be his old friend. As events unfold, Yehia uncovers dark secrets that challenge his understanding of reality.

The Blue Elephant

2014
18 Days
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
Ibrahim El-Abyad
7.5

After witnessing the murder of his father as a child, Ibrahim is drawn into the criminal underworld of Egypt. While making a name for himself with his best friend Ashri, he finds his high school sweetheart Houria and manages to rekindle their love, but paths intertwine with Abdel Malik Zarzor, the city's crime lord, who is connected somehow to Houria.

Ibrahim El-Abyad

2009
The Blue Elephant 2
7.6

A meeting with a new inmate in the psychiatric hospital flips Dr. Yehia's life upside down. She prophecies that the death of his entire family is only three days away.

The Blue Elephant 2

2019
The Originals
7.0

Samir is the head of a small family and a bank employee and stable in his work, but separated after the decision to reduce the employment and then surprise that his bank balance zero and after days find a box with a mobile phone to meet a call changed his life by recruiting him to spy on people through an organization called The Originals.

The Originals

2017
Smile, The Photo Comes Out Better
7.0

Photographer Sayed Gharib leaves his hometown and moves Cairo to be close to the Faculty of Medicine that his daughter Tahani attends. Tahani clashes with the aristocratic society around her as love blossoms between her and the son of a famous businessman

Smile, The Photo Comes Out Better

1998
Li Li
7.3

Sheikh Abdul-Al, the imam of Al-Shobokshi Mosque in Al-Batiniyya. The drug trafficker, which is home to a group of traders and drug dealers, is surrounded by a beautiful girl, Lee, who is chasing him in his dreams and is in a conflict between his desire and his faith. And it ends on her door.

Li Li

2001
No image
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It deals with the life of Pharaoh Tutankhamun, and the story of the discovery of the amazing secrets of his tomb

The Last Pharaoh