Friday 05/Sep/2025 – 03:12 PM
Honor Port Said International Film FestivalHeaded by cinematic critic Ahmed Asr, chaired by the producer Hisham Suleiman, in the star of the star Mahmoud Yassin, to be held from 18 to 22 September, the Egyptian director of photography, Ahmed Al -Morsi, in appreciation of his busy career and his distinguished contributions to the film industry.
Port Said International Film Festival honors the director of photography Ahmed Al -Morsi
Al -Morsi graduated in the Department of Photography at the Higher Institute of Cinema in 1998, and began his cinematic journey early with an assassination movie in 1996, and then participated in more than 50 films that diversified his roles between a photography assistant, a photographer, and a director of photography, achieved during his career 31 prestigious cinematic awards.
In 2003, he presented the movie of violence and ridicule to become the youngest director of photography in Egypt at the time, before his name was established as one of the most prominent director of photography through works that formed prominent marks in Egyptian cinema, among them: the sweetest times in 2004, the sea messages in 2010, one true in 2011, for a party in 2013, the Blue Elephant in 2014, the original in 2017, diamond dust in 2018, known in 2021, Kira and Jin 2022.
Al -Morsi won over his artistic career 31 local and international awards, the most prominent of which was what he received about the film of the sea messages with the director David Abdel -Sayed in 2010, where he won the Best Photography Award at the National Festival of Egyptian Cinema, the Art Excellence Award from the Alexandria Film Festival for the Mediterranean countries, and the best photography award from the Film Association Festival for Cinema. Also received by the party movie in 2013, the Best Photography Award from the Film Association Festival for Egyptian Cinema, and the Blue Elephant movie in 2014 for the Best Filming Festival Award, in addition to the Best Filming Award at the National Festival of Egyptian Cinema for the movie Aswar al -Qamar in 2015.
His creativity also extended to the field of advertisements and video songs, where he collaborated with the top singing stars in the Arab world, such as: Tamer Hosni, Samira Saeed, Mohamed Mounir, Angham, and Sami Youssef.
This honor comes within the framework of the festival administration’s keenness to celebrate the symbols of Egyptian and Arab cinema, who contributed to enriching the artistic movement and left a impressive imprint in the march of cinematic creativity.
Port Said Festival
It is worth noting that the Port Said International Film Festival is held under the patronage of Major General Moheb Habashi, Governor of Port Said, and Dr. Ahmed Fouad Hano, Minister of Culture, and the Film Professions Syndicate headed by Massad Fouda.
