Magdi Ahmed Ali
Magdi Ahmed Ali (1952) graduated in 1976 at the medical faculty in Cairo, and in 1981 at the Higher Institute for Cinema, also in Cairo. He was assistant director on more than twenty films, including those by Youssef Chahine, Mohammed Khan and Khairy Beshara. He has so far made three documentaries and wrote the screenplay for Tarek Telmessany's Laughter, Seriousness, Playing and Love. Life... My Passion is his feature début.
Filmography
Zaman el Sekout/Time of Fall (1981), Hekayat men el zaman el said/Episodes from the Happy Times (1992), Ayam el inssan el sabaa/The Man's Seven Days (1995), Ya Donia Ya Gharani/Life... My Passion (1995)
Magdi Ahmed Ali op IFFR
Ya Donia Ya Gharani
110'
Egypte
IFFR 1996