Kamel El Basha
- Acting
- March 14, 1962 · Jerusalem, Palestine
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
- Conversation with the Sea
- 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
- Wedding, Berlin