Ahmed Malek

Jury Member

Egyptian actor Ahmed Malek’ acting career got a flying start when he was cast to play young Hassan Al-Banna, founder of the Muslim Brotherhood, in the hit TV series El-Gama'a / The Brotherhood (2010). The Egyptian actor has already had an impressive acting career at a very young age, starting to gain international recognition after playing ‘Mans’ in the groundbreaking film Clash (2016) by Mohamed Diab. Malek then portrayed a Michael Jackson-obsessed teenager in Amr Salama’s Sheikh Jackson, which was the opening film at the 2017 El Gouna Film Festival. He has been picked as one of the Rising Stars in a list of eight up-and-coming acting talents by TIFF and has been cast for his first international film, Montreal Girls, to be directed by Canadian director Patricia Chica. Malek is now a full-time student at the Cairo Contemporary Dance Centre.

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