Ahmed Atef
Directing
Biography
He works as a director, screenwriter, film producer and film critic. He has been practicing film criticism since the age of 18 and was the film critic of the French newspaper Al-Ahram Hebdo for ten years. He graduated from the Higher Institute of Cinema in Cairo in 1993, and then studied for a master's degree at the College of Film at the University of Southern California in Hollywood, America in 2005.
Known For
After Ali is accepted into the Red Sea Academy for Tourism, he gets a scholarship in Switzerland where he falls for a Swiss girl. Meanwhile, Atef falls for his Lebanese friend Nada, who is also pursued by Ali.
How to Get Girls to Fall for You
Omar decides to emigrate to America as his 30th birthday approaches, but first he wants to get revenge on the people who have gotten in his way.
Omar 2000
During the Gulf War, Fatma works as a maid for a wealthy man, and her son Mohammed is suffering from oppression by his teacher Mansour, who's having an affair with Fatima, taking advantage of her difficult circumstances. Mohammad gets drawn to extremist religious world led by Sheikh Khalid.
Closed Doors
A group of homeless kids and their struggle to earn money by going through trash,stealing,disturbing drugs and prostitution. The film sheds the light on what makes them do up-normal behaviors to survive and that society and government are responsible for this spreading of this issue.
The Forest
Before Spring is a film that tackles the three months prior to the Egyptian Revolution of 2011, with special emphasis on the reasons and motives that sparked it as well as the general state of affairs that prompted the youth to revolt.