Kamel El Basha
Known for: Acting
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
Series
Culprits
Youssef Mizouni / Cracker
2023
Series
Mo
Uncle Ali
2022
Series
Into the Dark
2021
Film
Palestine 36
Abu Rabab
2025
Series
Dawa'i El-Safar
إبراهيم
2024
Series
Room 207
2022
Film
The Insult
Yasser Abdallah Salameh
2017
Series
Indigenous
Ibrahim
2026
Series
Rogue Arrows
2018
Film
Palestine Islands
Younès
2023
Series
House of Gods
Sheikh Mohammad Al-Hamedi
2024
Film
I Know You Can Hear Me
Salim
2025
Film
Huda's Salon
Doctor
2022
Film
An Orange from Jaffa
Farouk
2024
Film
Thank You for Banking with Us
Uncle
2025
Film
Our Males and Females
The Father
2023
Film
Conversation with the Sea
2026
Film
The Reports on Sarah and Saleem
Abu Ibrahim
2018
Film
Asad
محروس
2026
Film
Love, Theft and Other Entanglements
2015
Film
The Translator
Professor Raed
2021
Film
The Land's Oath
Narrator
2026
Film
Hamza - Chasing the Ghost Chasing Me
2022
Film
My Father's Scent
Omar
2026
Film
I'll Get Back to You
Abu Bassam
2025
Film
Curfew
2020
Dreams of Sultan Al-Mansi