Marwan Hamed

Marwan Hamed

Birth : 1977-01-01, Cairo, Egypt

History

Hamed possesses an extensively auspicious repertoire that extends over 20 years of experience in producing as well as directing films, in addition to directing over 300 commercials, TV drama series and music videos. Graduated from the High Institute of Cinema in 1999, Marwan Hamed started his cinematic career in 2000 as a Director Assistant in Souq Al Motaa film. While studying, he directed two short films and several documentaries, but what stood out from the crowd was his 40-minute Lilly, starring Amr Waked as a promising talent. Based on a short story by renowned Writer Yousef Idrees, the film was a great success, garnering various international awards including Prix du Public at Clermont Ferrand Film Festival, the Golden award at the Carthage Film Festival and Silver prize at Milano Film Festival for African Cinema. Marawan’s first feature The Yacoubian Building was the gateway to his success and was considered a big hit in 2005. Considered the largest budget set to produce an Egyptian film to date, boasting an all-star Egyptian cast including the Arab megastar Adel Imam and Yousra, the film was distributed in 12 countries across Europe, South America and the Arab world. The film dominated the Egyptian box office for the entire summer season and received around 200,000 admissions in France. The film was screened in a number of eminently distinguished film festivals including Berlin Film Festival in the Panorama section, the AFI Film Festival in USA, the Cannes Film Festival, the London Film Festival in London, the Chicago International Film Festival in USA, the Marrakech International Film Festival in Morocco, and the Thessaloniki International Film Festival in Greece. The Yacoubian Builiding won numerous awards including the Best New Narrative Filmmaker award at Tribeca Film Festival in 2006, the Golden Eye award at the Zurich Film Festival, Bronze award at the Montreal Film Festival and Grand Prix at Festival du Monde Arab France. Inspired by true events, Hamed’s second feature film was Ibrahim Labyad, which featured an array of Egypt's megastars including legendary actor Mahmoud Abdel Aziz, Ahmed El Sakka, Hend Sabry, and Amr Waked. The film grabbed the Egyptian audiences’ attention with its realistic portrayal of life in the slums and its abundance of violent details. The film was screened in Le Marche du Film at the Cannes Film Festival, Montreal Film Festival and Sao Paolo International Film Festival. Marwan also directed the short film 19/19, part of the movie 18 Days, a collection of 10 short films about the January 25th revolution in Egypt, directed by 10 Egyptian directors. The film premiered at Cannes Film Festival in 2011 in the official selection for special screenings. In 2014, Marwan directed El Feel El Azrak (The Blue Elephant), which is adapted from Egyptian writer Ahmed Mourad’s Egyptian best seller novel in 2012 of the same name that was listed on the Man Booker Prize 2012 shortlist. Starring Karim Abdel Aziz, Khaled El Sawy and Nelly Karim, the film is a psychological mystery that delves deep into the world of the paranormal. The Blue Elephant was distributed in Jordan as well as the GCC states and reaped 30,000,000 EGP in 45 days.

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Marwan Hamed

Movies

The Blue Elephant: Part III
The Blue Elephant: Part III
Director
A Third part of The Blue Elephant Saga.
Kira & El Gin
Kira & El Gin
Director
The movie focuses on the fury state that was among the people in synchronization with the main event in Egypt: The Egyptian revolution "1919" which unites the fates of Kira and El Gin to participate in the struggle against the English occupation.
The Blue Elephant 2
The Blue Elephant 2
Director
A meeting with a new inmate in the psychiatric hospital flips Dr. Yehia's life upside down. She prophecies that the death of his entire family is only three days away.
Diamond Dust
Diamond Dust
Director
Taha works as a pharmacist and lives a normal life with his disabled father. When a mysterious murder occurs, Taha's world changes forever. He starts tracking down many secrets that leads him to unlocks a whole melancholic world of crime!
The Originals
The Originals
Director
Samir is the head of a small family and a bank employee and stable in his work, but separated after the decision to reduce the employment and then surprise that his bank balance zero and after days find a box with a mobile phone to meet a call changed his life by recruiting him to spy on people through an organization called The Originals.
The Blue Elephant
The Blue Elephant
Producer
Dr. Yehia, a psychotherapist at Al Abbasia hospital, works in the department of the criminally insane. He finds that one of his patients is his old friend Sherif Al-Kordy. When he tries to help him, he gets himself in serious trouble.
The Blue Elephant
The Blue Elephant
Director
Dr. Yehia, a psychotherapist at Al Abbasia hospital, works in the department of the criminally insane. He finds that one of his patients is his old friend Sherif Al-Kordy. When he tries to help him, he gets himself in serious trouble.
18 Days
18 Days
Director
10 Film makers made 10 Separate stories about the "25January " revolution in Egypt and the Egyptian people in the revolution and the protests against the previous President Hosni Mubarak and the departure of President Hosni Mubarak and also displays what happened in Tahrir Square since the start of the sit-in
Ibrahim El Abyad
Ibrahim El Abyad
Director
Ibraham Al Abyad young child is exposed and his father killed before his eyes by a great band trading in drugs say takbeer the child and the image of his father's death does not leave his eyes and hoped that the proceeding by the time quickly in order to take revenge on all its members, led, of course, the gang leader and for this train Ibrahim Abyad exercises cruel and violent and finds that the best way to take revenge on the gang members is to approach them and join them to be able to kill them in his own way. in order to this shared their operations dangerous to gain their trust and before he began to implement the old dream is captured in one of the processes and able leader of the gang smuggled out and save his neck from a rope the gallows.
The Yacoubian Building
The Yacoubian Building
Director
Cairo: a 70-year-old building of once-luxury flats with tenements on the roof. Zika, an aging libertine, feuds with his sister. Pius Haj Azzam takes a second wife, in secret, to satisfy sexual drive within religious bounds. Bothayna, poor and beautiful, supports her family, wanting to do so with dignity intact. Her former fiancé, Taha, the janitor's son, humiliated by the police, turns to fundamentalism. Hatem, a gay editor, seduces and corrupts a young man from the sticks. Two brothers, Copts, one a tailor and one Zika's factotum, connive for property. Allah is on most everyone's lips, and corruption is in their hearts.
Li Li
Li Li
Writer
Sheikh Abdul-Al, the imam of Al-Shobokshi Mosque in Al-Batiniyya. The drug trafficker, which is home to a group of traders and drug dealers, is surrounded by a beautiful girl, Lee, who is chasing him in his dreams and is in a conflict between his desire and his faith. And it ends on her door.
Li Li
Li Li
Director
Sheikh Abdul-Al, the imam of Al-Shobokshi Mosque in Al-Batiniyya. The drug trafficker, which is home to a group of traders and drug dealers, is surrounded by a beautiful girl, Lee, who is chasing him in his dreams and is in a conflict between his desire and his faith. And it ends on her door.
The Headmaster
The Headmaster
Co-Director
Ashour, Salaah’s father, runs his school with severity and cruelty. after Ashour's death, Salah inherits the job and lets Sayed, his deputy, take charge. Hussein the teacher makes a great effort to guide Salah to succeed in managing the school and achieve good results, while salah is dealing with his trust issues and his need to prove himself by getting out of his father's shadow. with the help of Hussien, his girlfriend Wafaa, and his two friends Atef and Lemby .. can he run the school his own way?
Smile, The Photo Comes Out Better
Smile, The Photo Comes Out Better
Assistant Director
Photographer Sayed Gharib leaves his hometown and moves Cairo to be close to the Faculty of Medicine that his daughter Tahani attends. Tahani clashes with the aristocratic society around her as love blossoms between her and the son of a famous businessman