Egypt

Nadine Khan is a filmmaker living and working in Cairo, Egypt. She earned her BA in film directing from the Egyptian Higher Film Institute in 2001. Since then, she has directed several fiction films, commercials, TV series and music videos. Her debut feature film Chaos, Disorder / Harag w’ Marag, won the Jury Prize at the Dubai International Film Festival (2012), the Best Film award at the Oran Film Festival, Algeria (2013), and the Muscat International Film Festival, Oman (2014). Khan’s sophomore film Abu Saddam (2021) premiered at the 43rd Cairo International Film Festival (International Competition) and won Best Actor (Mohamed Mamdouh). One of Khan’s four short films, One in a Million (2006), was an official selection for the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, and the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR). It was acquired by the ZDF Kultur. She has also directed several TV commercials and music videos, and her critically acclaimed TV series Seventh Neighbor / Saabe’ Gaar (produced by CBC, 2017) was met with popular success in the MENA region.

Filmography

One in a Million (2006)
Chaos, Disorder (2017)
Abu Saddam (2021)