
Khairy Beshara is an Egyptian film and television director. He was born and lived his first five years in Tanta, then moved to Cairo with his mother who worked there. He studied film directing at the High Institute of Cinema and graduated in 1967. He then worked as an assistant director, and moved to Poland for a year for his post-graduate studies, where he met his wife. Upon his return to Egypt, he continued working as an assistant director, in addition to teaching acting and screenwriting at the institute. In the period between 1974 and 1986, he directed 12 documentary and short fiction films. His first feature length film was an Egyptian-Algerian co-production, and took 4 years to produce. It finally premiered in 1982. He then went on to direct 11 other feature films, most of which were critically acclaimed and gained cult followings, and several television series.

Soft Life
TV • 2010

Best Times
MOVIE • 2004

Factory Girl
MOVIE • 2014

The Vagabonds
MOVIE • 1985

Silence!
MOVIE • 1991

Before the Summer Crowds
MOVIE • 2016

The Wife of an Important Man
MOVIE • 1988

Knight of the City
MOVIE • 1992

Double Faces
MOVIE • 2005

Curfew
MOVIE • 2020

Downtown Girls
MOVIE • 2005

Kiss Me Not
MOVIE • 2018

Half a Rabbit
MOVIE • 1983

Dilapidated Woman
MOVIE • 1992

A Dinner Date
MOVIE • 1981

The Third Class
MOVIE • 1988

Villa 69
MOVIE • 2013

As for the Weather
MOVIE • 2022