Amr Gamal

Amr Gamal was born in 1983 in Poland. He is a Yemeni theatre director and producer. In 2003, he received the President’s Prize for Playwriting. In 2005, he founded the Khaleej Aden theatre troupe. Since then, he has written and directed all of the troupe’s theatre productions. His play Ma’k Nazel is the first Yemeni play to be performed in Europe in Berlin. In 2018, his first feature film, Ten Days Before the Wedding, was screened in Aden, becoming the first film to be commercially released in Yemen in the last three decades. The Burdened is the first Yemeni fiction film to be distributed in France.