Known For
Acting
Born
Mar 14, 1962
Place of Birth
Jerusalem, Palestine
Credits
28 titles
Kamel El Basha
Biography
Kamel El Basha is a Palestinian actor of screen and stage, theater director, play-writer and producer. He began his career as a stage actor during the 1980s. He gained critical acclaim in 2017 when he won the Volpi Cup for Best Actor (male) during the 74th Venice International Film Festival for his role as Yasser Abdallah Salameh in The Insult by the Lebanese film director Ziad Doueiri. It was El Basha's first major role on screen, although he had appeared in a number of theatrical productions, actually also directing some of them. He is the former artistic director of the Palestinian National Theater in Jerusalem from 2007 to 2011 and the artistic director of Quds Art since 2012.
Known For
Filmography
The Land's Oath
Narrator
Asad
محروس
Indigenous
Ibrahim
My Father's Scent
Omar
I Know You Can Hear Me
Salim
Palestine 36
Abu Rabab
Thank You for Banking with Us
Uncle
I'll Get Back to You
Abu Bassam
Dawa'i El-Safar
إبراهيم
House of Gods
Sheikh Mohammad Al-Hamedi
An Orange from Jaffa
Farouk
Culprits
Youssef Mizouni / Cracker
Palestine Islands
Younès
Our Males and Females
The Father
Hamza - Chasing the Ghost Chasing Me
Room 207
Mo
Uncle Ali
Huda's Salon
Doctor
Into the Dark
The Translator
Professor Raed
Curfew
Rogue Arrows
The Reports on Sarah and Saleem
Abu Ibrahim
The Insult
Yasser Abdallah Salameh
Love, Theft and Other Entanglements
Al Helm: Martin Luther King in Palestine
Director
Dreams of Sultan Al-Mansi
Hiwar ma' albahr