Khairy Beshara

Directing Jun 30, 1947 (79 years old) Tanta, Egypt

Khairy Beshara is an Egyptian film and television director. He was born and lived his first five years in Tanta, then moved to Cairo with his mother who worked there. He studied film directing at the High Institute of Cinema and graduated in 1967. He then worked as an assistant director, and moved to Poland for a year for his post-graduate studies, where he met his wife. Upon his return to Egypt, he continued working as an assistant director, in addition to teaching acting and screenwriting at the institute. In the period between 1974 and 1986, he directed 12 documentary and short fiction films. His first feature length film was an Egyptian-Algerian co-production, and took 4 years to produce. It finally premiered in 1982. He then went on to direct 11 other feature films, most of which were critically acclaimed and gained cult followings, and several television series.

28 Acting Credits

26 Crew Credits

Khairy Beshara

Acting

The Wife of an Important Man

Factory Girl

Best Times

Photocopy

Before the Summer Crowds

Dreams of Hind and Camilia

A Dinner Date

Downtown Girls

Kiss Me Not

Villa 69

Double Faces

Sleepless Eyes

A Bird on the Road

The Vagabonds

Klephty

Curfew

Knight of the City

The Third Class

Very Hot Day

Half a Rabbit

Silence!

Dilapidated Woman

Nightmare

As for the Weather

Crew

In Desert and Wilderness

Ice Cream in Glim

The Collar and the Bracelet

A Girl Named Zat

Kaborya

Bitter Day, Sweet Day

Love, Life & Everything in Between

Diary of a Country Prosecutor

America Abracadabra

The Flood

Houseboat No. 70

National Day of Mourning in Mexico