Overview
Known for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
Mar 14, 1962 (63 years old)
Kamel El Basha
Known For
Biography
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.
Acting
2025
Lion
2025
I'll Get Back to You
2024
Thank You for Banking with Us!
2024
Reasons for Travel
2024
House of Gods
2024
An Orange from Jaffa
2023
Culprits
2023
Palestine Islands
2022
Hamza - Chasing the Ghost Chasing Me
2022
Room 207
2022
Huda's Salon
2021
Into the Dark
2020
Curfew
2018
Rogue Arrows
2018
The Reports on Sarah and Saleem
2017
The Insult
2015
Love, Theft and Other Entanglements