Maher Selim

Maher Selim


Died: September 2, 2021
in Egypt
Maher Ali Ahmed Selim obtained a Bachelor of Theatrical Arts, Department of Acting and Directing. He acted in the Vanguard Theater about 20 plays by Samir El-Asfouri, most notably The Bald Singer, and Cairo 80. He obtained a postgraduate Diploma at the Academy of Arts in directing for three years. He received a scholarship in 1992 at the Accademia Nazionale d'Arte Drammatica Silvio D'Amico, directing department. He participated in many international festivals such as in Carthage and Jordan.

Movies for Maher Selim...

Waafet Reggala (A Stand Worthy of Men)
Title: Waafet Reggala (A Stand Worthy of Men)
Released: January 13, 2021
Type: Movie
After a long awaited reunion, a group of friends must travel to a coastal town in order to save one of their own from trouble.
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Curfew
Title: Curfew
Released: December 4, 2020
Type: Movie
On 2013, Faten is released from prison after serving a 20-year sentence for committing a horrific crime. She is forced to spend her night with Leila as a result of a curfew and she is subjected to another trial in search of answers to hidden questions about her
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Title: When We Were Young
Released: April 24, 2020
Type: TV
A thriller about five friends who, after their graduation from the AUC, start working for Professor Selim Mansour, who is involved in illegal activities. But in the wake of a murder, everything changes.
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Title: The Men of the House
Released: April 24, 2020
Type: TV
Timon and Pumbaa move to stay in their grandfather's house, and there they are surprised that they must take full responsibility, and join hands with the rest of the family to stand up to the owner of the house their grandfather is trying to take from him to build a residential tower.
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Title: Cairo Class
Released: May 6, 2019
Type: TV
A few Kuwaiti students leave in the 50's to the University of Cairo in Egypt, the land of art and openness and experience exceptional love stories.
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Title: Shoulder Touch
Released: May 6, 2019
Type: TV
Adham (Yasser Galaal) is a former boxer who uses his physical robustness in criminal activities. After he gets out of jail, he decides to quit, but he has to stand up to the pressure of the mobsters who want to keep his illicit services.
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Title: Qabeel
Released: May 4, 2019
Type: TV
In this suspenseful thriller, a police officer is trying to find clues related to the unresolved murder of a young woman, feeling haunted by her ghost along the way.
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Immobilia Crime Story
Title: Immobilia Crime Story
Released: February 20, 2019
Type: Movie
Kamel Helmy is a famous writer, in the late 1940s, living in Cairo, in the famous Imobilia building, after the death of his wife and the departure of his children from home. He suffers from loneliness and schizophrenia. One day he calls a girl named Samah who had befriended Facebook in an attempt to ease his isolation.
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Title: Hidden Worlds
Released: May 17, 2018
Type: TV
When a prominent writer finds confidential documents incriminating government officials, he decided to publish them, risking his own life and his family's.
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The Treasure: Truth & Imagination
Title: The Treasure: Truth & Imagination
Released: August 31, 2017
Type: Movie
The events revolve around three eras: the Pharaonic era, the Mamluk era, and the first half of the 20th century. The events revolve around corruption and the power of some clerics over the ages to power and false and bad dealings with the people, and how to involve religion in politics in order to obtain positions. That there are clerics deliberately coloring and counterfeiting in this period of time to be the strongest and maintain their positions.
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Title: The President's Shadow
Released: May 27, 2017
Type: TV
Yehya, a police officer, decides to leave the force after successfully protecting the President from an assassination attempt in the late 1990's. He is subjected to an assassination attempt that results in the death of his son and wife, and starts his journey for revenge.
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Title: Unstable Mind
Released: May 27, 2017
Type: TV
Each of the episodes in this series discusses a different topic in this comedy drama.
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Title: Kafr Delhap
Released: May 27, 2017
Type: TV
A doctor travels to a damned hamlet, where there are no newborns, with many cases of girls and men possessed by Jinn, all of whom say that there is a woman who speaks to them and that she wants to take revenge on the whole hamlet.
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Title: The Cesar
Released: June 6, 2016
Type: TV
Al-Kaiser is a member in an extremist Islamic Takfiri group, in one of their terrorist operations, the police blocks them in one of the tunnels in Rafah and demolishes it. Al-Kaiser is the only survivor and is imprisoned.
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Title: Free Fall
Released: June 6, 2016
Type: TV
A mentally disturbed woman (Nelly Karim) is accused of killing her husband and sister, as the police find her with the crime tool (pistol) .. After her arrest, the court decides to enter a psychiatric hospital because she suffers from an acute psychological crisis, but she is exposed to many problems inside this clinic, which It causes several setbacks after recovering more than once.
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Azazel Son of the Devil
Title: Azazel Son of the Devil
Released: September 24, 2015
Type: Movie
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Title: Jews Alley
Released: June 19, 2015
Type: TV
The series depicts the period between the 23rd of July's revolution and the Suez Crisis, through picturing the Jews' Alley and its residents, and how Egypt's political turmoil at the time influenced their daily lives.
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Title: Adam's Apple
Released: June 22, 2014
Type: TV
This series tells the story of a professional con artist who knows exactly how to get what he wants. His incredible conning skills leave the security agencies that are after him totally dumfounded at every turn. But the con artist’s life changes completely when he meets a woman who specializes in computer hacking, and she becomes a great asset to him.
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Title: Empire of Who?
Released: May 5, 2014
Type: TV
An Egyptian family living abroad decides to return to Egypt when a bout of nostalgia strikes the parents. Their children reluctantly agree to the decision but they all face a series of comical situations beyond what they expected from the moment they land.
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Title: A Girl Named Zat
Released: August 2, 2013
Type: TV
Based on Sonallah Ibrahim's celebrated novel, "Zaat" explores the social and political winds of change in Egypt starting from 1952, when the main character "Zaat" was born, all the way up to the present day.
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Title: Heatwave
Released: July 10, 2013
Type: TV
The story of the Al-Agaty family that consists of a mother and her two sons, one of whom is a police officer who faces a lot of problems as a result of his violent behavior, while the other son is a young revolutionary leftist often at odds with his brother and his family.
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Title: Without Mentioning Names
Released: July 10, 2013
Type: TV
The series revolves around several intertwined events, different Aisha. The series deals with the story of Rabih al-Halawani, and his son Rabie al-Halawani. The magazine and its partner in extortion operations, ill-informed. On the other hand, there is a reason to spend the protection and care of a purebred (ewe) and closer to her on the other side, as she escapes to work for Karawana and then becomes a beach dancer. He exploits the need for a job as an engineer by one of the sons of the Egyptian countryside, in order to exploit him and his father to implement private and suspicious deals.
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Title: Unknown Number
Released: July 20, 2012
Type: TV
When the young lawyer (Ali) receives a call from an unknown person, threatening that he has what may destroy his reputation, the events get complicated especially with the presence of many family problems that intersect with each other. Through out the series the question remains,who is that caller and what exactly does he want?
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Title: Naji Attallah's Squad
Released: July 20, 2012
Type: TV
A retired Egyptian officer working at the Egyptian embassy in Tel Aviv decides to plot revenge against Israel for freezing his bank accounts when he objected to its monstrous conduct in Palestine. In Egypt, he recruits five of his former students to rob Israel’s largest bank.
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Title: The Escape
Released: July 20, 2012
Type: TV
Mahmoud is a young engineer who misses on a job at his university due to corruption. As he stands up to a businessman, the latter frames him for murder and Mahmoud is forced to flee in an attempt to prove his innocence. But another tragedy awaits him when his brother gets killed.
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18 Days
Title: 18 Days
Released: September 6, 2011
Type: Movie
10 filmmakers provide 10 separate stories focusing on the 18 days of the 2011 Egyptian revolution. Ten stories they have experienced, heard, or imagined.
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Title: Nouna, the Lady Marriage-Officiant
Released: August 1, 2011
Type: TV
Nouna becomes the first female marriage officiant in Egypt which comes with its own set of problems and obstacles that lands her in comic situations as her clients reflect a number of recent social issues that plagues the Egyptian society.
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El Fagommi
Title: El Fagommi
Released: June 1, 2011
Type: Movie
A biography about Ahmed Fouad Negm, the famous poet of the Egyptian colloquial, depicting the important historical and revolutionary stages, from his struggle fighting the English occupation and political oppression, to his imprisonment and his relationship with his companion the composer Sheikh Imam Issa.
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Title: The People of Cairo
Released: August 11, 2010
Type: TV
A dramatic police investigation by chief detective Colonel Hassan, the task entrusted to him is to look into a bomb report in a luxury hotel in downtown Cairo on the wedding night of the scandalous businesswoman Belle Safi, who will be attended by important community figures at various levels, but each carrying Inside is much worse than what people show.
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Title: Al-Gama'a
Released: August 1, 2010
Type: TV
Al-Gama'a is an Egyptian television drama, Historical and Political drama series written by Wahid Hamid, directed by Mohammed Yasin and produced by Kamel Abu Ali. The series began filming in January 2010 with a budget of 50 million Egyptian pounds. The show deals with the rise of the Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt’s largest Islamist political group, which was officially banned but nonetheless tolerated to an extent before the revolution. Critics have decried the show's pro-government stance, charging that it plays into the Egyptian government's agenda prior to the 2010 Egyptian parliamentary elections.
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The Promise
Title: The Promise
Released: December 7, 2008
Type: Movie
First production of Mahmoud Baraka through his company's pool of technical and production of film revolves around human error and why faulting Is motivated to error and also speaks of man you have the ability to tolerance for errors that condemn it as a stigma in their lives.
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Al-Zamahlawia
Title: Al-Zamahlawia
Released: November 3, 2008
Type: Movie
The film revolves around the families of Shehata Hussein and Salim Abu Nawas (Salah Eidullah and Izzat Abu Auf), one of whom belongs to Zamalek football Club and the other to Al-Ahli football Club. Both families have a lot of hostile feelings because of their extreme football fanaticism. Abeer Abu Nawas (Bushra) is in love with Hassan Ibn Shehata (Ahmed Azmi), which puts this story of love in front of the obstacle of football fanaticism of both families.
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Qabalat Masruqa
Title: Qabalat Masruqa
Released: October 1, 2008
Type: Movie
A couple's relationship experiences some ups and downs as the societal pressures put upon them get increasingly burdensome.
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Chaos, This Is?
Title: Chaos, This Is?
Released: November 28, 2007
Type: Movie
Hatem is a corrupt police officer, who loves his neighbor Nour, who in turn loves the prosecutor, Sherif. Hatem tries to win Nour’s attention even if by force.
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Title: The Yacoubian Building
Released: September 12, 2007
Type: TV
The story about the residents of the Yacoubian building and their intertwining lives, including Zaki Al-Dousoky who is in constant conflict with his sister, Dawlat, and Hajj Azzam, who used to be a shoeshiner but became a millionaire thanks to his drug trade.
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None But That!
Title: None But That!
Released: March 2, 2007
Type: Movie
"Nahed" (Nabila Ebeid) as the Greedy Mother fight over "Dina" (Arwa) the innocent talent who falls in love with "Nader" (Khaled Abol Naga) as a Music Talent Hunter & Famous icon/Director & shatters her Family apart when she becomes a big success.
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Title: Tamer & Shawkeya
Released: September 23, 2006
Type: TV
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Title: The Harbor and the Sailor
Released: October 4, 2005
Type: TV
The story of the struggle of El Araby who owns a fleet of fishing boats in Alexandria but he faces repeated financial crises, and Fares who dreams of traveling to Europe and rejects the idea of ​​marrying his cousin who loved him since she moved in with his family after her father died.
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Alexandria... New York
Title: Alexandria... New York
Released: May 21, 2004
Type: Movie
An enthralling look at the relationship between America and the Arab World from an Arab perspective. It tells the story of Yehia, a renowned Egyptian filmmaker whose life has been shaped by a pair of disrupted love affairs, one with an American woman named Ginger, the other with America itself.
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Girl's Love
Title: Girl's Love
Released: January 14, 2004
Type: Movie
The story of three half-sisters who are united when their father dies and his will dictates they live together if they are to get their inheritance. The three sisters; the passionate Nada, the westernized Roqaya, and the tempered Ghada, have to work out their differences.
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Title: The Man of Destinies
Released: October 26, 2003
Type: TV
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Title: Opera Aida
Released: November 27, 2000
Type: TV
Sayed Abdel Hafiz, famously known as Sayed Opera, is a lawyer famous for the schemes that he uses to defend criminals and drug traffickers. Aida is a skilled doctor who lives in a simple house after her father lost his wealth because of one of Sayed's tricks, until the paths of Opera and Aida cross.
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A Cultural Film
Title: A Cultural Film
Released: October 4, 2000
Type: Movie
To watch a pornographic film in Egypt, you need four things: the videotape; a VCR; a television; and a place to watch it. Three horny Egyptian 20-somethings try to pull these elements together in a day-long 'mission-impossible' to watch what is euphemistically called "thaqafi" (cultural) -- a codeword for porn meant to keep parents, friends and colleagues out of the loop (and those in the know in).
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Title: Zezenia
Character: صبحي
Released: December 30, 1997
Type: TV
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Destiny
Title: Destiny
Released: August 18, 1997
Type: Movie
In the 12th century's Andalusia lives Ibn Rushd a prominent Islamic philosopher with his wife Zeinab and daughter Salma. The principality is ruled by Khalifa ElMansour who has two sons, ElNasser, an intellectual that likes Ibn Rush and is in love with his daughter Salma. The younger son Abdallah is more into dancing and poetry, spending most of his times with the gypsy family and getting the daughter pregnant. The Khalifa is depending on the extremists to build his army granting them more power which they use to combat artists and philosophers. The extremists succeed in recruiting Abd Allah and train him to kill his father. Events go on where Marawan, the gypsy singer, is killed and Ibn Rushd's books are burnt. Adapted from the real life of Ibn Rushd AlMasir is Chahine's statement against extremism.
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Title: Break the Impasse
Released: January 28, 1995
Type: TV
The series showcases a money-investing company and what its owner is exposed to after the decision to confiscate his money, so he resorts to keeping his money with the gardener, who finds himself at a loss when he turns into a millionaire overnight.
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The Emigrant
Title: The Emigrant
Released: September 26, 1994
Type: Movie
The biblical tale of Joseph is told from an Egyptian perspective in this interesting character study. In this film, Joseph is called Ram. Ram, tired of his family's backward superstitious life, and tired of being picked on by his brothers, wants to go to Egypt to study agriculture. His brothers travel with him across Sinai, but then suddenly sell him to Ozir, an Egyptian who works for a Theban military leader, Amihar. Amihar is impressed by Ram's drive and personal charm and so grants Ram some desolate land outside the capital. Ram soon finds himself a pawn in the political and sexual games between Amihar and his wife Simihit, a high priestess of the Cult of Amun.
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Title: Arabesque: The Days of Hassan Al-Noaamany
Released: February 11, 1994
Type: TV
The series follows the life of Hassan, an old chivalrous Arabesque workshop owner who lives in a poor neighborhood with his family. The series provides an insight into the day-to-day struggles of the family as Hassan gets involved in much of their neighbors' disputes and affairs.
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Beggars and Noblemen
Title: Beggars and Noblemen
Released: January 2, 1991
Type: Movie
In June 1945, during the final days of WWII, former university professor Gohar meets a young prostitute in a brothel and kills her in a moment of frenzy. Police Detective Noureddine takes on the murder case and tracks down Gohar, hoping to confront him and get a confession to the murder from him. However, both the detective and the killer face startling facts that change the way they think.
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Alexandria Again and Forever
Title: Alexandria Again and Forever
Released: December 4, 1989
Type: Movie
Set in 1987 against the backdrop of a hunger strike by the Egyptian film industry, Chahine himself steps in to play Yehia, the famed Egyptian director whose life is chronicled in "Alexandria, Why?" and "An Egyptian Story". Obsessed with Amr, the handsome actor he discovered and cast as his alter-ego in parts one and two of The Alexandria Trilogy, Yehia pressures Amr to star in various film projects that change even as Yehia's perception of the young actor begins to change. He first casts Amr as Hamlet, which the actor deems too demanding for his talents, then as the lead in a musical biopic of demigod Alexander the Great, who founded the city of Alexandria in 332 B.C.
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Fish, Milk, Tamarind
Title: Fish, Milk, Tamarind
Released: November 21, 1988
Type: Movie
When Ahmed's father travels abroad for work, he gets harassed for refusing to give a part of his income to those who helped him travel. The father dies, and when his body arrives in Egypt, the Interpol suspects Ahmed and his father of being members of a terrorist organization.
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The Sixth Day
Title: The Sixth Day
Released: September 29, 1986
Type: Movie
Egypt, 1947: in the midst of a cholera outbreak. A washerwoman tries to take care of her family, while at the same time resisting the advances of a charming suitor who's half her age.
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The Visit Is Over
Title: The Visit Is Over
Released: January 1, 1983
Type: Movie
Directed by : Samir Al Asfory