KHALED YOUSSEF

Khaled Youssef trained as a physician before turning to cinema as an assistant to Youssef Chahine, the late Egyptian master whose moral seriousness — and refusal to separate the political from the personal — would mark every film Youssef has made since.

Across two decades of feature work, he has remained drawn to the same questions: who pays the price for a nation’s choices; what does dignity mean when it is the only thing left; and how does cinema honour ordinary lives without softening their edges. The answers shift from film to film. The questions don’t.