Daoud Abdel Sayed

Daoud Abdel Sayed was born in Cairo in 1946. He began his film career as an assistant director to Youssef Chahine. The Vagabonds (1985) established him as a pioneer of New Realism in Egyptian cinema; since then he has made a number of commercially successful films. The Land of Fear (1999) won Best Arabic Film at the Cairo International Film Festival. Selected filmography: Al KitKat (1991), Land of Dreams (1994), The Wedding Thief (1995) and A Citizen, a Detective and a Thief (2001). —Film ADFF