Ahmed Rashwan


Ahmed Rashwan is an Egyptian film director, screenplay writer, and a film producer. His filmography includes a list of short, documentaries, and one long-feature film. Since his graduation from the Cairo Film Institute in 1994, he worked on promoting the Independent Cinema wave in Egypt, as an alternative path to overcome the sway of the mass marketed film production.

Early life

Rashwan was born October 23, 1969, in Alexandria, Egypt belonged to an Egyptian family, He Began his passion for cinema since childhood. Began his activities in cinema clubs since he was a student in high school, and then issued a film magazine with his friends from film enthusiasts in Alexandria.
In 1987, he joined the Faculty of Law and graduated in 1990. He then moved to Cairo and studied Cinema in Cairo Film Institute and graduated in 1994. He made a short film called “Zamzam” as his graduation film project.

Short films

Rashwan made 5 short films,
  1. “ Habib's Birthday”Short fiction/video/1 4mins/1,
  2. “ Farah Dreams" short fiction, 20 min. 1994 Video,
  3. “ Zamzam” Short fiction/35mm/l2mins/1,
  4. “ Cross Roads”,
  5. “The Morning After”.
  6. Cross Roads Short fiction, 8 min.. 1995 35mm
  7. Musafa Khana Documentary/l6mm/9 mins/1 993
  8. Without Make-up Short fiction/ video/ 19 min / 2003

    Documentaries

Rashwan made 20 documentaries, starting with “ Musafir Khana”, also he worked as director and executive producer for many documentaries produced by Aljazeera Channel.

Basra

After 5 years of searching about producer, Rashwan decided to filming his first feature film “Basra” and produced it as well as Egyptian Independent film. Then he met the producer Haitham Hakki who enthused to complete the production of the film, and made the blow up for it from HD format to 35mm format.
“ Basra” had a lot of successes in the festivals, screened in 12 festivals and got 6 awards and 1 mention.

Festivals

  1. " BASRA" Mostra de Valencia Film Festival - Spain- October 8
  2. " BASRA" São Paulo International Film Festival - Brazil - October08
  3. " BASRA" Cairo International Film Festival - Arab Competition - November 8
  4. " BASRA" Pan African Film Festival - Burkina Faso - March 9
  5. " BASRA" Cape winlands International Film Festival-South Africa-March 9
  6. " BASRA" Sousse International Film Festival - Tunisia - March 9
  7. " BASRA" 15th National Film Festival - Cairo - Egypt - April 9
  8. " BASRA" Arab Film Festival- Rotterdam - Holland - June 9
  9. " BASRA" Beirut International Film Festival - Lebanon October 9
  10. " BASRA" Arab film Festival - San Francisco - USA- October 9
  11. " BASRA" Arab Film Festival - Brussels - Belgium - November 9

    Awards