Youssef Chahine

Activities : Actor, Director, Adaptation/Dialogue Writer, Author of original work, Producer, Screenwriter
Also known as : Youssef Gabriel (يوسف جبريل شاهين) Chahine
Date of Birth : 25/01/1926
Date of decease : 27/07/2008

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Youssef Chahine

Recent filmography (French films only)Complete filmography (19 films)

Chaos, This Is (2007)

Directors : Youssef Chahine, Khaled Youssef
Actors : Khaled Saleh, Menna Chalaby, Youssef El Sherif, Hala Sedky, Hala Fakher
Associate production company : 3B Productions
Genres : Fiction
Synopsis : Choubra is a cosmopolitan neighborhood in Cairo. Hatem, a corrupt policeman, rules over the neighborhood with an iron fist. All its inhabitants fear and detest him. Only Nour, a young woman whom he wants to seduce, dares stand up...

To Each His Own Cinema (2007)

Directors : Théo Angelopoulos, Olivier Assayas, Bille August, Jane Campion, Youssef Chahine...
Associate production company : Elzévir Films
Genres : Fiction
Synopsis : This collection of sketches was made to celebrate the Cannes Film Festival's 60th anniversary. 35 filmmakers from 25 countries each made a 3-minute film whose theme was the movie theater.

There is No Direction (2005)

Director : Sarah Bertrand
Actors : Abel Ferrara, Larry Clark, Emir Kusturica, Spike Lee, Bernardo Bertolucci...
Associate production company : Precious Films
Genres : Documentary
Synopsis : Armed with her Super 8 camera, the narrator takes us to meet several of today’s greatest filmmakers. From one country to another, from one face to the next, the same question is asked: “What does it feel like to be a filmmaker?”

Alexandria - New York (2003)

Director : Youssef Chahine
Actors : Yousra, Ahmed Yéhia, Yousra El Lozy, Lébléba, Hala Sedki...
Associate production company : Ognon Pictures
Genres : Fiction
Synopsis : Egyptian film director Yehia encounters his first love Ginger as he was being celebrated in New York. Back then they were 19 years old. The American Dream was the thing of the 20th century. Yehia, the boy from Alexandria and...

11'09"01 - Youssef Chahine (2002)

Director : Youssef Chahine
Actors : Nour Elshérif, Ahmed Seif Eldine

11'09''01 (2002)

Directors : Youssef Chahine, Amos Gitaï, Shohei Imamura, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, Claude Lelouch...
Associate production company : Galatée Films
Genres : Fiction
Synopsis : Eleven filmmakers from different countries and cultural backgrounds offer eleven different impressions of the tragic events that occurred in New York on September 11, 2001. Eleven points of view that evoke the amplitude of the...

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