Amina Khalil
Amina Khalil is a prominent actress in Egyptian TV and cinema. Khalil trained at The Lee Strasberg Institute for Theatre & Film, New York, and the Moscow Art Theatre, Russia.
Khalil has also made her way through the silver screen by taking different iconic roles in movies like “The Cell”, “122”, “The Suit”, “Sheik Jackson”, “Curfew” and lately “Wish Fi Wish” which was a great success across the Middle East.
Khalil is known for her diverse and challenging roles ranging from the hit show “Grand Hotel” to the dark and complex crime series “Qabeel,” and “Why Not,” where Khalil portrayed a strong Egyptian female protagonist. Khalil’s most recent work includes the successful series, “Seventh Year Itch.” Amina has shared the screen with other well-known figures in Arab Cinema including Adel Emam, Samir Ghanem and Elham Shahin.
Other movies
MOON
Director: Kurdwin Ayub
Sarah, a former mixed martial arts champion in Austria, knows she needs to make a new start. While her sister urges her to start a business, she jumps at an unexpected offer to go to Jordan to train three teenage daughters of a dazzlingly rich family living in an isolated, fiercely guarded mansion. Sarah soon sees that the girls don’t want to train, but have little else in their closeted lives: no internet allowed, no friends and only rare outings to the mall, where they are closely watched, for entertainment. The house, moreover, seems to hold its own secrets; why is Sarah forbidden to go upstairs? Director Ayub maintains the tension of a thriller in this story of life in a golden cage.
FAMILIAR TOUCH
Director: Sarah Friedland
Anchored by a precise and sensitive performance by 79-year-old theatre actress Kathleen Chalfant, Sarah Friedland’s debut film – made in collaboration with the residents and care workers at a Los Angeles retirement home – shows the experience of dementia from this elderly woman’s own point of view. Her son, whom she mistakes for a date, takes her to the care home that she thinks is a hotel bar. Once a professional chef, she takes over the kitchen for a morning, then escapes to go to a produce stall, bits of reality she can still grasp. Her triumph is to find the life worth living where she is, as she is. A celebration of the human mind, in all its complexity.
MARIA
Director: Pablo Larraín
Maria Callas, the greatest opera singer the world has seen, died aged only 53 in her sumptuous Parisian apartment, discovered by the devoted servants who had spent their days hiding her pills and trying to persuade her to eat. She had not sung in public for years. Larrain’s swirling work of fantasy shows La Callas remembering - or hallucinating - performances from her past, her long affair with Aristotle Onassis and her loveless childhood in wartime Athens, where she sang for German soldiers. Wandering Paris in her last days, Maria is trailed by an imaginary journalist to whom she tries to explain the pain and effort of creation. Angelina Jolie conveys Callas’s grandeur and her inner tumult in a landmark performance.
