Born in Cairo in 1952, Yousry Nasrallah worked as a journalist in Beirut and as an assistant to Youssef Chahine before directing. His films deal with class, politics and love in Egypt and the Arab world. The Gate of the Sun (Bab el shams, 2004), a long film from Elias Khoury's novel about the Palestinian refugees in Lebanon, was a major production. Scheherazade, Tell Me a Story (2009) looks at women and television, and After the Battle (2012), about the Battle of the Camel during the Egyptian revolution, was in competition at Cannes.
Filmography
- Summer Thefts (1988)
- Mercedes (1993)
- The City (1999)
- The Gate of the Sun (2004)
- Scheherazade, Tell Me a Story (2009)
- After the Battle (2012)