2025Winner
Best Performance
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Kamel El Basha
Actor · Director
Jerusalem, Palestine
March 14, 1962
Biography
Kamel El Basha is a Palestinian actor of screen and stage, theater director, play-writer and producer. He began his career as a stage actor during the 1980s. He gained critical acclaim in 2017 when he won the Volpi Cup for Best Actor (male) during the 74th Venice International Film Festival for his role as Yasser Abdallah Salameh in The Insult by the Lebanese film director Ziad Doueiri. It was El Basha's first major role on screen, although he had appeared in a number of theatrical productions, actually also directing some of them. He is the former artistic director of the Palestinian National Theater in Jerusalem from 2007 to 2011 and the artistic director of Quds Art since 2012.
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Representative Works
Awards and Honors
Critical Favorites
2026Winner
Best Performance
Asad
2017Nominee
Best Performance
The Insult
Career Highlights
2025Highlight
Best Performance
I Know You Can Hear Me
2023Highlight
Best Performance
Palestine Islands