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Sherif Elbendary

Sherif Elbendary

Director, Producer, Writer

Born September 29, 1978 in Cairo, Egypt

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Sherif Elbendary, an Egyptian film director, writer and producer; born in 1978 in Cairo. He graduated from faculty of applied arts in 2001 and started his life as a textile engineer; in 2002 he pursued another career path when he joined "The high Cinema institute" in Cairo to study cinema directing and graduated in 2007; where he got a teaching position from 2008 till now. Elbendary directed a number of shorts and documentaries that made it to numerous festivals around the world. His first short film "Rise and shine" was produced by the national film center in 2006, the film was selected in many international festivals and won a number of awards including "Tribeca film festival" in 2007. In 2011, he directed a feature length documentary "On the road to Downtown", and among other 9 other directors, Elbendary participated with "Curfew" segment in the feature film "18 days" - official selection Cannes 2011-. Elbendary won the "Robert Bosch Film Prize" at the Berlinale talent campus 2014 for his short film "Dry hot summer" - an Egyptian German co production - the film premiered at "Clermont Ferrand ISFF 2016", and screened after in many festivals around the world and won a number of awards. In 2017, El Bendary released his first feature length narrative film "Ali, the Goat and Ibrahim" an Egyptian Emirati French co production, which won a best actor prize at Dubai IFF and was released in Egypt and France and many other countries, the same year; Sherif Elbendary had a TV series broadcast ed; "The Brotherhood II" written by the veteran screenwriter "Wahid Hamed"; a historical major production with political dimensions that stirred controversy at the time Elbendary served as a jury member in several film festivals including Clermont Ferrand International Short Film Festival, Cairo IFF, El Gouna FF, Ismailia Film Festival and The Egyptian National Film Festival. Recently, Sherif Elbendary founded "Africa Films", a film production company mainly focused on short and feature films for promising and upcoming directors making their first and second films, and will also produce his second feature film.

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Filmography

Director

14

Type

Year

Better Than Earth Poster

Better Than Earth Short Film2024

Sunday at Five Poster

Sunday at Five Documentary2019

The Brotherhood 2 Poster

The Brotherhood 2 TV Series2017

Ali, the Goat and Ibrahim Poster

Ali, the Goat and Ibrahim Feature Film2016

Dry Hot Summers Poster

Dry Hot Summers Short Film2015

Esteefa TV Series2015

Jews' Alley Poster

Jews' Alley TV Series2015

18 Days Feature Film2011

On the Road to Downtown Poster

On the Road to Downtown Documentary2011

El-Gamaah Poster

El-Gamaah TV Series2010

At Day's End Poster

At Day's End Short Film2008

Rise and Shine Poster

Rise and Shine Short Film2006

Six Girls Poster

Six Girls Short Film2005

Is Africa an Island? Feature Film

Producer

6

Type

Year

Better Than Earth Poster

Better Than Earth Short Film2024

What We Don't Know About Maryam Poster

What We Don't Know About Maryam Short Film2021

Sunday at Five Poster

Sunday at Five Documentary2019

Dry Hot Summers Poster

Dry Hot Summers Short Film2015

At Day's End Poster

At Day's End Short Film2008

Is Africa an Island? Feature Film

Writer

5

Type

Year

Better Than Earth Poster

Better Than Earth Short Film2024

Sunday at Five Poster

Sunday at Five Documentary2019

18 Days Feature Film2011

At Day's End Poster

At Day's End Short Film2008

Six Girls Poster

Six Girls Short Film2005

2nd Unit / Asst Director

2

Type

Year

Women's Jail Poster

Women's Jail TV Series2014

Love Situation Poster

Love Situation Feature Film2004

Thanks

1

Maydoum Short Film2010

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