Kamel El Basha
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.
Known For
All Movies (18)
- The Land's Oath2026 · as Narrator
- Asad2026 · as Mahrous
- My Father's Scent2026 · as Omar
- I Know You Can Hear Me2025 · as Salim
- Palestine 362025 · as Abu Rabab
- Thank You for Banking with Us2025 · as Uncle
- I'll Get Back to You2025 · as Abu Bassam
- An Orange from Jaffa2024 · as Farouk
- Palestine Islands2023 · as Younès
- Our Males and Females2023 · as The Father
- Hamza - Chasing the Ghost Chasing Me2022
- Huda's Salon2022 · as Doctor
- The Translator2021 · as Professor Raed
- Curfew2020
- The Reports on Sarah and Saleem2018 · as Abu Ibrahim
- The Insult2017 · as Yasser Abdallah Salameh
- Love, Theft and Other Entanglements2015
- Dreams of Sultan Al-Mansi—
All TV Shows (8)
- Sohab El Ard2026 · as Ibrahim
- Dawa'i El-Safar2024 · as إبراهيم
- House of Gods2024 · as Sheikh Mohammad Al-Hamedi
- Culprits2023 · as Youssef Mizouni / Cracker
- Room 2072022
- Mo2022 · as Uncle Ali
- Into the Dark2021
- Rogue Arrows2018