Born in Cairo in 1978, Mohamed Diab was a screenwriter on popular films before directing 678 (2010), an examination of sexual harassment in Cairo that helped lead to the criminalisation of harassment in Egypt. Clash (Eshtebak, 2016), shot entirely within a police van in which protesters of opposite sides are locked after the military takeover of 2013, opened Un Certain Regard at Cannes. Amira (2021) was about a Palestinian teenager born through smuggled sperm. He also directed episodes of the series Moon Knight (2022).