Abdallah Abbassi

Kafr Kassem (1975)

On the eve of the Israeli attack on Egypt in 1956, Israel decalres Martial law in all the occupied Arab teritories without any previous notice. When the villagers of Kafar Kassem returned home from the fields, they were butchered and killed in what is known today ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Borhane Alaouié
CAST:  Abdallah Abbassi  •  Ahmad Ayub  •  Salim Sabri

On the eve of the Israeli attack on Egypt in 1956, Israel decalres Martial law in all the occupied Arab teritories without any previous notice. When the villagers of Kafar Kassem returned home from the fields, they were butchered and killed in what is known today ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Borhane Alaouié
CAST:  Abdallah Abbassi  •  Ahmad Ayub  •  Salim Sabri

Al-yazerli (1974)

Based on a novella by Hanna Mina. The film’s poetic, non-narrative structure simulates the fractured thoughts of a young boy who is forced to leave school and find work on the docks. Using minimal dialogue but evocative music and sounds, separate vignettes ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Qais Al-Zubaidi
CAST:  Abdallah Abbassi  •  Adnan Barakat  •  Nadia Arslan  •  Mona Wassef

Based on a novella by Hanna Mina. The film’s poetic, non-narrative structure simulates the fractured thoughts of a young boy who is forced to leave school and find work on the docks. Using minimal dialogue but evocative music and sounds, separate vignettes ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Qais Al-Zubaidi
CAST:  Abdallah Abbassi  •  Adnan Barakat  •  Nadia Arslan  •  Mona Wassef