Talent Guide

Ayman El Amir

  • Discipline:Director, Producer
  • Program Year:Documentary Lab 2022

Bio

Ayman El Amir is an Egyptian filmmaker and script consultant. His most recent work includes producing the short fiction Fakh (The Trap), which was selected for the Semaine de la Critique at the Festival de Cannes in 2019 and co-directing (with Nada Riyadh) the feature-length documentary Happily Ever After, which premiered at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam in 2016. He has worked as a script consultant for numerous programs, labs and institutes, including TorinoFilmLab, the Doha Film Institute, the Film Prize of the Robert Bosch Stiftung and the Marrakech International Film Festival’s Atlas Workshops.

Current Project

Land of Women

Logline

In a conservative village in south of Egypt, dominated by patriarchy and full of despair, a lively group of Coptic girls refuse the traditional roles forced upon them by forming an all-female street theatre troupe. A coming-of-age portrait of girls at the crossroads of their lives.