Kamel El Basha

Known for ActingBorn 1962-03-14 (age 64)Jerusalem, Palestine

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.Read more

Movies & web series

I Know You Can Hear Me

Sohab El Ard

Dawa'i El-Safar

Thank You for Banking with Us

Rogue Arrows

Palestine 36

House of Gods

Asad

The Insult

Mo

The Reports on Sarah and Saleem

Curfew

Into the Dark

Huda's Salon

Room 207

An Orange from Jaffa

Palestine Islands

Culprits

The Translator

Our Males and Females

Al Helm: Martin Luther King in Palestine

Love, Theft and Other Entanglements

My Father's Scent

The Land's Oath

I'll Get Back to You

Hamza - Chasing the Ghost Chasing Me

Dreams of Sultan Al-Mansi