Kamel El Basha
Acting • Born 1962-03-14
Biography
Kamel El Basha is a Palestinian actor of screen and stage, theater director, play-writer and producer. He began his career as a stage actor during the 1980s. He gained critical acclaim in 2017 when he won the Volpi Cup for Best Actor (male) during the 74th Venice International Film Festival for his role as Yasser Abdallah Salameh in The Insult by the Lebanese film director Ziad Doueiri. It was El Basha's first major role on screen, although he had appeared in a number of theatrical productions, actually also directing some of them. He is the former artistic director of the Palestinian National Theater in Jerusalem from 2007 to 2011 and the artistic director of Quds Art since 2012.
Filmography
26 credits
Huda's Salon
Movie • 2022
Doctor
Hamza - Chasing the Ghost Chasing Me
Movie • 2022
An Orange from Jaffa
Movie • 2024
Farouk
Love, Theft and Other Entanglements
Movie • 2015
Asad
Movie • 2026
Mahrous
The Insult
Movie • 2017
Yasser Abdallah Salameh
The Reports on Sarah and Saleem
Movie • 2018
Abu Ibrahim
Curfew
Movie • 2020
Palestine Islands
Movie • 2023
Younès
My Father's Scent
Movie • 2026
Omar
Thank You for Banking with Us
Movie • 2025
Uncle
Palestine 36
Movie • 2025
Abu Rabab
I'll Get Back to You
Movie • 2025
Abu Bassam
Dreams of Sultan Al-Mansi
Movie
Our Males and Females
Movie • 2023
The Father
The Translator
Movie • 2021
Professor Raed
The Land's Oath
Movie
Narrator
I Know You Can Hear Me
Movie • 2025
Salim
Into the Dark
TV • 2021
Room 207
TV • 2022
House of Gods
TV • 2024
Sheikh Mohammad Al-Hamedi
Reasons for Travel
TV • 2024
إبراهيم
Rogue Arrows
TV • 2018
Mo
TV • 2022
Uncle Ali
Culprits
TV • 2023
Youssef Mizouni / Cracker
Indigenous
TV • 2026