| Dalia Saad |
An Egyptian writer and director, born in Cairo in 1978. He graduated from the Faculty of Applied Arts in 2001, and then began his career as a textile design engineer in a textile factory, then joined the High Cinema Institute to study film directing and graduated in 2007. In 2008, he was appointed as a teaching assistant in the Directing Department. He directed a number of short and documentary films, the first of which was the short film Good Morning, which won a number of awards in many local and international film festivals. In 2008, he directed and wrote the script for his second short film At Day's End, based on a short story by the late writer Ibrahim Aslan, which was his graduation project from the Institute. In 2011, he directed his long documentary film, On the Road to Downtown, and participated in his short film Curfew in the anthology film 18 Days, with nine other directors, which was shown at the Cannes International Film Festival in 2011, and in 2014 he won the Robert Bosch Award at the Berlin International Film Festival to support the production of his short film Hot, Dry in Summer, which he completed in 2015 and was shown in many local and international festivals. In 2015, he began shooting his first feature film Ali, The Goat and Ibrahim.
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