Kamel El Basha or Kamel el-Basha ( ar, كامل الباشا

(born March 14, 1962 in East Jerusalem), is a Palestinian theater actor and director and film actor who won the 2017

Volpi Cup for Best Actor The Volpi Cup for Best Actor ( it, Coppa Volpi per la migliore interpretazione maschile) is the principal award given to actors at the Venice Film Festival and is named in honor of Count Giuseppe Volpi di Misurata, the founder of the Venice Film ...

(masculine) during the

74th Venice International Film Festival The 74th annual Venice International Film Festival was held from 30 August to 9 September 2017. The jury president was announced as the actress Annette Bening on 5 July 2017. '' Downsizing'', directed by Alexander Payne, was selected to open ...

for his role as Yasser Abdallah Salameh in '' The Insult'' (also known in ar, قضية رقم ٢٣, Qadiyya raqm 23, Case No. 23) by the Lebanese film director

Ziad Doueiri Ziad Doueiri ( ar , زياد دويري ; born October 7, 1963) is a Lebanese film director, cinematographer and writer. He is best known for his award-winning films ''West Beirut'' (1998) and '' The Insult'' (2017), a film that was nominated a ...

. 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, in addition to a handful of films in small roles. 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.

Filmography

*2002 : Case (حاله ) *2009: ''Lesh Sabreen

' *2014: Al Helm,documentar

*2015: '' Love, Theft and Other Entanglements'' AKA Al-hob wa al-sariqa wa mashakel ukhra'' as Abu Mustaf

' *2015: ''Solomon's Stone (film)'' as a police investigato

*2016 : Defying my disability , doc: executive produce

*2017: '' The Insult'' as Yasser Abdallah Salame

*2017 : السهام المارقه TV *2018: the reports on Sarah and Saleem as: Abo eprahee

*2019 : Green Grass as Hussen *2020: The Traslater as Prof Raed

*2020: Carfew as Yihi

*2022: Room 207 as Mina (tv) *2023: Culprits (TV series), ''Culprits'' as Youssef Mizouni

Theatre

(Selective)
Directing *''Suquut al Qastal'' (سقوط القسطل) *''Ness Kiis Rasas'' (نص كيس رصاص) *''Al Qamees al Masruq'' (القميص المسروق) *''Madeenat al Sa'aada'' (مدينة السعادة) *''Ward wa Yasmeen'' (ورد وياسمين) *''Al Arees'' (العريس) *''Sahra Maqdisiyyah'' (سهرة مقدسية) Acting *''Al Qamees al Masruq'' (القميص المسروق) *''Al Aydi al Qazira'' (الأيدي القذرة) *''Al Zeer Salem'' (الزير سالم) *''Mawta bila Qubuur'' (موتى بلا قبور) *''Hajar al Tahqeeq'' (حجر التحقيق)

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Basha, Kamel El Palestinian male film actors Jordanian male film actors 1962 births Living people Actors from Jerusalem Volpi Cup for Best Actor winners Prisoners and detainees of Israel Baghdad