Tamer El Said

Tamer El Said

Biography

Egyptian filmmaker, writer and producer Tamer El Said lives and works in Cairo. He studied Film Directing at the High Institute of Cinema, graduating in 1998 with Honourable Mention, and received his Diploma in 2002. He has worked as 1st AD on some of Egypt's bigger feature films, directed commercials, taught and worked as a producer for a number of production companies. He has directed numerous award winning shorts and documentaries. Work on his first feature, In the Last Days of the City, started in 2008. The film was shot in Cairo, Alexandria, Beirut, Baghdad and Berlin and brings together many upcoming talents from the Arab world. In 2007 he founded his own company Zero Production, an independent production company in Cairo. Zero Production supports independent filmmakers in Cairo and the region.

Nowe Horyzonty Międzynarodowy Festiwal Filmowy

Director

Movies
2016

In the Last Days of the City

Documentaries
2020

Cinetracts '20

Screenwriter

Producer

Movies
2016

In the Last Days of the City

Short
2013

The Cave

Actor

Movies
2009

Heliopolis

2008

Eye of the Sun - narrator

2001

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