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Kamel El Basha
Jerusalem, Palestine
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 ac…
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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.
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- 2026
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2026
The Land's Oath
Movie Narrator
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2026
Asad
Movie محروس
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2026
Indigenous
TV show Ibrahim
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2026
My Father's Scent
Movie Omar
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2025
I Know You Can Hear Me
Movie Salim
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2025
Palestine 36
Movie Abu Rabab
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2025
Thank You for Banking with Us
Movie Uncle
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2025
I'll Get Back to You
Movie Abu Bassam
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2024
Dawa'i El-Safar
TV show إبراهيم
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2024
House of Gods
TV show Sheikh Mohammad Al-Hamedi
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2024
An Orange from Jaffa
Movie Farouk
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2023
Culprits
TV show Youssef Mizouni / Cracker
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2023
Palestine Islands
Movie Younès
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2023
Our Males and Females
Movie The Father
- 2022
More credits
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2022
Room 207
TV show
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2022
Mo
TV show Uncle Ali
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2022
Huda's Salon
Movie Doctor
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2021
Into the Dark
TV show
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2021
The Translator
Movie Professor Raed
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2020
Curfew
Movie
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2018
Rogue Arrows
TV show
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2018
The Reports on Sarah and Saleem
Movie Abu Ibrahim
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2017
The Insult
Movie Yasser Abdallah Salameh
- 2015
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2014
Al Helm: Martin Luther King in Palestine
Movie Director
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