Ahmed Magdy
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Ahmed Magdy graduated from the Faculty of Law at Ain Shams University, but did not work as a lawyer. Magdy joined the Clay theater troupe and worked as an actor, assistant director...Read more and actor trainer for many performances over a period of three years. His first film was the independent six-minute 2007 documentary work “Magra al-Seil” (“Riverbed”). Thereafter Magdy took part in a workshop titled “al-Zatt wa al-Madina – al-Qahira” (“The Self and the City- Cairo”) which was produced by the European Union and al-Sammat production company which saw the direction of a 9 minute documentary work titled “Zeezo”. Magdy also joined the Cairo Jesuit Cinema School for a year and directed three low budget short titles. Magdy has taken part as an actor or assistant cameraman in more than 30 independent works. He was also in the 10 minute narrative film work “Keika Sagheera” (“Small Cake”). The title was his graduation project that was submitted to the workshop and received an honor from the judging committee at the Algeria Independent Cinema Festival. Magdy’s final work as a director was “Illa al-Bahr…” (“To the Sea…”),the title was produced by the Forced Migration and Refugee Studies department at the American University in Cairo. Magdy also participated as an actor in “’Asafeer al-Neel” (“Birds of the Nile”). That title also starred Fathy ‘Abd Al Wahab and was directed by Magdy Ahmed ‘Aly. The work was adapted from a literature work by the same name which was authored by the renowned writer Ibrahim Aslan.
Ali the Goat and Ibrahim
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(Ali),a twenty-year-old young man, loves a goat and faces a lot of criticism and harsh ridicule from his community because of that, so his mother forces him to visit a spiritual healer, where he meets (Ibrahim),who suffers from severe depression and hears mysterious voices that he cannot decipher, and (Ali) sets out with (Ibrahim) and his goat on a journey through (Egypt).
Napoleon and El Mahrousa
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A portrait of the social and political aspects of Egypt during the late 18th century French campaign, and the most important events that ensued, from Battle of Shubra Khit between Napoleon and the Mamluk leader, Murad Bey, and through the first and second Revolt of Cairo, till the defeat and exit of the campaign.
