Kamel El Basha
Acting
Born: 1962-03-14 ยท Jerusalem, Palestine
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,
๐ฌ Movies (17)
The Land's Oath
2026
Narrator
Asad
2026
Mahrous
My Father's Scent
2026
Omar
I Know You Can Hear Me
2025
Salim
Palestine 36
2025
Abu Rabab
Thank You for Banking with Us
2025
Uncle
I'll Get Back to You
2025
Abu Bassam
An Orange from Jaffa
2024
Farouk
Palestine Islands
2023
Younรจs
Our Males and Females
2023
The Father
Hamza - Chasing the Ghost Chasing Me
2022
Huda's Salon
2022
Doctor
The Translator
2021
Professor Raed
Curfew
2020
The Reports on Sarah and Saleem
2018
Abu Ibrahim
The Insult
2017
Yasser Abdallah Salameh
Love, Theft and Other Entanglements
2015
