Kamel El Basha
Acting · Directing
Born March 14, 1962, Jerusalem, Palestine
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
- 2026Asad — محروس
- 2026Conversation with the Sea
- Indigenous — Ibrahim
- 2026My Father's Scent — Omar
- 2026The Land's Oath — Narrator
- 2025I Know You Can Hear Me — Salim
- 2025I'll Get Back to You — Abu Bassam
- 2025Palestine 36 — Abu Rabab
- 2025Thank You for Banking with Us — Uncle
- 2024An Orange from Jaffa — Farouk
- Dawa'i El-Safar — إبراهيم
- House of Gods — Sheikh Mohammad Al-Hamedi
- Culprits — Youssef Mizouni / Cracker
- 2023Our Males and Females — The Father
- 2023Palestine Islands — Younès
- 2022Hamza - Chasing the Ghost Chasing Me
- 2022Huda's Salon — Doctor
- Mo — Uncle Ali
- Room 207
- Into the Dark
- 2021The Translator — Professor Raed
- 2020Curfew
- Rogue Arrows
- 2018The Reports on Sarah and Saleem — Abu Ibrahim
- 2017The Insult — Yasser Abdallah Salameh
- 2015Love, Theft and Other Entanglements
- 2014Al Helm: Martin Luther King in Palestine — Director
- Dreams of Sultan Al-Mansi
- Wedding, Berlin