
Aida El Kashef
Acting
Biography
Aida El-Kashef is a feminist Egyptian filmmaker, actress and director. Her acting credits include Ship of Theseus and Walad w Bent. She has also directed the short films A Tin Tale and Rhapsody in Autumn.
Known For

Leh Laa?! is a female-led Egyptian anthology drama that stands out for its candid exploration of women’s autonomy and social constraints. The first season follows Alia, a privileged young woman who breaks away from a controlling mother and an arranged marriage to define her own path. Each subsequent season introduces a new story — from adoption to divorce — combining emotional realism with sharp, contemporary social commentary. Featuring Amina Khalil, Menna Shalaby and Nelly Karim.
Leh Laa?!

Set between Beirut and Cairo; Sharifa goes through many crises, including her mother's alcoholism and being on tranquilizers. As the events unfold, Sharifa falls in love with a university doctor.
Change of Mood

Moderation, set in Egypt, Greece and Italy, revolves around a female horror director (Maya Lubinsky) and a screenwriter (Anna De Filippi), whose latest collaboration is haunted by encounters with its 'raw material' and the escalation of conflicting desires. Faced with the disintegration of their project, the director becomes more and more drawn into conversations with the actors she has cast (Aida El Kashef, Michele Valley and Giovanni Lombardo Radice), which reflect on the way horror traverses the affective and material realities of their lives on and off screen.
Moderation

Three stories about persons forced to think about the ethics and moral issues raised by medical advances.
Ship of Theseus

The Square looks at the hard realities faced day-to-day by people working to build Egypt’s new democracy. Cairo’s Tahrir Square is the heart and soul of the film, which follows several young activists. Armed with values, determination, music, humor, an abundance of social media, and sheer obstinacy, they know that the thorny path to democracy only began with Hosni Mubarak’s fall. The life-and-death struggle between the people and the power of the state is still playing out.
The Square

In this unique musical series, a successful and passionate lawyer makes an impulsive decision to completely change her life after she is reunited with her ex-boyfriend.
Crazy About You

Sameh is an incorrigible boy who is always keen on getting what he wants. He falls in love with Shahd, the daughter of a major novelist who places a strong emphasis on the physical body and holds a very personal theory on love that he is quick to repeat in press interviews in front of his daughter.
Boy and Girl

8 characters skew lifelines that never really intersect in the suburb of Heliopolis in Cairo within a frame of time of 24 hours all in a very stagnant state and never achieving goals.
Heliopolis

Mahmoud is man in his late 50s, who owns a photocopying store. When he comes across a topic about dinosaurs, he becomes obsessed with searching for the causes of its extinction, which leads him to rediscover love, friendship, paternity and the real meaning of life.
Photocopy

Trapped revolves around a number of women from different walks of life whose destinies are tied together; being all under one siege. As the events unfold, their own personal stories reflect on a far bigger siege that depicts the shackles imposed by a patriarchal society.
Trapped

The story of a prostitute "Mona Farkha" through a meeting with the director and the scenarist of the movie who don't know anything about her world.
A Tin Tale

Mahmoud is a twelve years old child . He works alongside his studies on one of the buses, where he collects fares from customers. This is a profession that requires the owner to be young, but like any other child, he begins to grow, and only his honesty, frankness, and strength will intercede for him to overcome the challenges he faces.
Very Humane

Shawky, a man in his sixties, decides one day to enjoy his life as he pleases, no matter the consequences.
Rhapsody in Autumn

When 24-year-old Hend Nafea is arrested and tortured for demonstrating peacefully in Cairo's Tahrir Square, her pursuit of justice reflects post-revolution Egypt at an uncertain crossroads.