Mohamed Khan

Mohamed Khan
Born	26 October 1942 (1942-10-26) (age 69) Cairo, Egypt.
Years active	1963-present

Mohamed Hamed Hassan Khan (Arabic: محمد حامد حسن خان‎) (born on October 26, 1942, Cairo) is an Egyptian-Pakistani film director, screenwriter and actor.

Biography

Born on October 26, 1942 to an Egyptian mother and a Pakistani father, He completed his high school in Egypt, then traveled to England where studied at the London School of Film Technique (now known as The London Int. Film School) between 1962 and 1963. He directed several 8mms. He came back to Egypt in 1963 and worked at script department of the General Egyptian FIlm company. Worked in Lebanon between 1964 and 1966 as an assistant director, then moved to England where he wrote his book "An Introduction to the Egyptian Cinema", Published in London by Informatics in 1969. Edited another Book entitled “Outline of Czechoslovakian Cinema”, which was also published in London by Informatics in 1971.

He has one daughter, Nadine, and one son, Hassan.

According to the book that has been issued in December 2007 in the Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Khan's Ahlam Hind we Kamilia (1988) is one of the 100 landmarks in the history of the Cinema of Egypt. 1963 and working all the way till now, the man still does not have the Egyptian nationality.

Khan has accomplished a couple of "Art Pieces" that can hardly be accomplished again. For instance, in this very film, El Harrif, he convince one of the most famous and successful comedians of all times in the Arab World, Adel Emam, to star in this very darkly viewed story. It is said that Adel Emam himself does not like this film now, but for me it is still considered to be one of the Master pieces in the history of Egyptian Cinema and it shows how deep can Emam goes in acting if only he can stop working on those trivial scripts that he got from time to time and earn him success among the mainstream cinema viewers in the Arab World. But may be the man chose his way, but for Khan, we can say that he has chosen the more Difficult way, the way via which he had always to produce meticulously crafted movies, working on stories - mainly that he wrote - with great script writers, among which is Beshir El Deek, to produce movies that simply touch the inner soul of any Egyptian who may view them after years and years of their production.

Filmography, Screening and Prizes

Short Films

• Da'e (1963) (aka Lost)
• Al Haram (1964) (aka The Pyramid)
• Al Battikha (1972) (aka The Watermelon). Screened at Adelaide and Oberhausen film festivals in 1973.
• Leqa' a'ely (1983) (aka A meeting of the Family)
• Al Sebaq Al Tawil (1989) (aka The Long Race)
• Yoam Fi Hayat Ossra Sa'eeda (1990) (aka A Day in the Life of a Happy Family)
• Al Alameyya (Sakhr) (1993)
• Ahlam layssat Mostahila (1995) (aka Feasible Dreams)
• Al Mar'a Al Messreyya (aka The Egyptian Woman)
• Atfal Al Shaware' (aka Street Kids)
• Al Bait Al Kabir (aka The Family House)
• "Maowid ala ashaa" (1981), (aka The Dinner Date)

Feature Films

• Darbet shams (1978) Screened at Montreal Film Festival in 1979. Cidalec Golden Award for first film at the Alexandria Film Festival in 1979. First Film Award at the Egyptian Film Society Festival in 1979. Certificate of Merrit for Direction from the Egyptian Ministry of Culture in 1981.
• El Raghba (1980) (aka Desire)
• Al Tha'r (1980) (aka The Vengeance)
• Ta'er ala el tariq (1981) (aka A Bird on the Road). Screened at Montreal, Sorento, Tashkent, Karlovy Vary Film Festivals in 1981 and 1982. Jury Award at the Egyptian Film Society Festival in 1982.
• Maw'id ala asha' (1982) (aka A Dinner Appointment)
• Nos Arnab (1982) (aka Half a Million)
• El Harrif (1983) (aka The Artful). Screened at the Moscow, Berlin, Valencia Film Festivals in 1983 and 1984. Best Direction at the Egyptian Film Society Festival in 1985.
• Kharaga wa lam ya'ud (1984) (aka Gone and Never Came Back). Silver Award at the Carthage Film Festival in 1984.
• Moshwar Omar (1986) (aka Omar's Journey). Screened at the Strasbourg, Valencia Film Festivals. Screened at the Tashkent, Strasbourg, Paris Arab Film Festivals in 1986 and 1987.
• Youssef and Zeinab (1986) (Egypt/Maldives Co-Production). Screened at the Strasbourg and Moscow Film Festivals in 1986 and 1987.
• Awdat Mowatin (1986) (aka Return of a Citizen). Screened out of Competition at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival.^[1] Screened at the Montreal, Valencia, Bastia, Monpellier and Paris Arab Film Festivals between 1987, 1990 and 1991.
• Zawgat Ragol Mohim (1987) (aka The Wife of an Important Man). Silver Award at the Damascus Film Festival in 1987. Screened In Competition at the Moscow Film Festival in 1987. Screened at the Montreal, Valencia, Tetouan, Digne, Istanbul and Nantes Film Festivals in 1987 and 1988.
• Ahlam Hind we Kamilia (1988) (aka Dreams of Hind and Camilia). Bronze Award at the Valencia Film Fest in 1988. Best Direction from Egyptian Film Society Festival in 1989. Best Film from the Catholic Film Centre in Cairo in 1989. Screened at the Tashkent, Carthage, Bahrain, Nantes and Tetouan Film Festivals, between 1989 and 1995.
• Supermarket (1990) Best Direction from the Egyptian Film Society Festival in 1991. Best Film from the Egyptian National Film Festivals in 1991. Screened at the Munich and Montpellier Festivals, in 1991.
• Fares Al Madina (1991) (aka Knight of the City). Screened at the Valencia and Paris Arab Film Festivals in 1992.
• Al Ghar'ana (1992) Screened at the Rotterdam Film Festival in 1993.
• Mr Karate (1993)
• Youm har giddan (1994) (aka A Very Hot Day)
• Ayyam El Sadat (2001) (aka Days of Sadat)
• Klephty (2003)
• Banat west albalad (2005) (aka Downtown Girls)
• Fi shaket Masr El Gedeeda (2007) aka (In the Heliopolis Flat)

References

1. ^ "Festival de Cannes: Return of a Citizen". festival-cannes.com. http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/ficheFilm/id/475/year/1987.html. Retrieved 2009-07-24. 

External links

• IMDB page
• An issue of Carnival Arabia dedicated to Mohamed Khan
• The best of Egyptian cinema, the best 15 best Egyptian films of all time

Persondata
Name	Khan, Mohamed Hamed Hassan
Alternative names	محمد حامد حسن خان
Short description	Egyptian film director
Date of birth	October 26, 1942
Place of birth	Cairo, Egypt
Date of death
Place of death