Bassant Shawqi

Birth : , Egypt

History

An Egyptian actress born in Cairo. She studied business administration at the American University. In 2009, she traveled to Argentine to participate in the TV show Fear Factor Xtreme. She started her acting career in 2011 through the theatrical show Stories from Tahrir. She attended many acting workshops with Ahmed Kamal and Marwa Gebril, as well as a workshop in Maggie Flanigan Studio in Chelsea, New York. She turned to the cinema and television in 2013, co-starring in the series Temporary Name, and the movie Family Secrets.

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Movies

Voy! Voy! Voy!

Basma

Hassan lives in poverty with his mother and works as a security guard, then he somehow manages to join a football team for the blind that is close to playing the World Cup in Europe. On this journey, he meets many characters and enters into several exciting and dangerous adventures.

Hazak Al Youm

Over the course of one night, the journalist Omar embarks on a risky adventure in order to save himself and his friends.

O Brother

The mayor of a village cancels his daughter's engagement when he loses his lucky amulet. He considers it a bad omen... a work by Egyptian director Sandra Bassal.

When We're Born

Three different personalities, the first tries to pursue his career in singing, the second is a dreamy Christian woman who falls in love with a Muslim youth, while the third works in the field of sports training.

Certified Mail

Mona

A new mother struggles with parenthood, adjusting to life with an imprisoned husband, and her own mental health.

Diamond Dust

Nahed

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!

Family Secrets

Omnia

Family secrets is the first Egyptian movie openly discussing homosexuality. "Based on a true story", Marwan who is a homosexual goes through a spiral of despair after coming out to his sister who gets him to seek to understand and treat his homosexuality, he now has to deal with religion, society and psychiatrists and gets tested to the limits