Khairy Beshara

Known for DirectingBorn 1947-06-30 (age 78)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.Read more

Movies & web series

Very Hot Day

Klephty

Knight of the City

A Bird on the Road

A Girl Named Zat

The Wife of an Important Man

Bloody Destinies

Best Times

Photocopy

A Dinner Date

In Desert and Wilderness

The Swallow

The Flood

Villa 69

Ice Cream in Glim

The Vagabonds

Curfew

Traffic Light

Diary of a Country Prosecutor

Silence!

Nightmare

Houseboat No. 70

Double Faces

Factory Girl

Bitter Day, Sweet Day

The Collar and the Bracelet

Half a Rabbit

Downtown Girls

Before the Summer Crowds

Dreams of Hind and Camilia

Kiss Me Not

The Third Class

Sleepless Eyes

Kaborya

National Day of Mourning in Mexico

America Abracadabra

Untamed Desire

Love, Life & Everything in Between

Memories of Hani Shenouda

As for the Weather

Sunday at Five

Karma's Curse

The Second Wife

Moondog

Soft Life

A Matter of Principle

Nutshells

Strawberry War