Bio
Ahmed was born in Alexandria, in May, 1984. With an interest in filmmaking and drawing, he joined the faculty of fine arts and studied oil painting. Before he received his bachelor of fine arts in 2006, he was accepted as a student in the second edition of the Jesuits Cultural Center film school of Alexandria. He graduated in 2007 his graduation film was a short narrative film entitled “Growing Distance”. Ahmed produced his first documentary “The Trip” in 2009 after producing a couple of short experimental films.
Since 2011, he has been dedicating the majority of his creative time to study and work with documentaries, either as a researcher or a filmmaker. He is known for being passionate about the modern history of Alexandria and its cultural and architectural heritage.
His short documentary "17 Fouad Street" won four prizes in Egypt and Spain. His first feature documentary "The City Will Pursue You" premiered in the 19th Ismailia International Film Festival long documentary competition in 2017. 
He worked closely with the late renown Egyptian film critic Samir Farid as a programmer for the modern library of Alexandria since 2008. He also managed the Jesuits Film School of Alexandria between 2019 and 2022.

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Formal Education
2001-2006 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Oil painting department, Faculty of Fine Arts, Alexandria.
2005-2007 Filmmaking school, Jesuit Cultural Center, Alexandria.
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Workshops and film festivals participations
2021 ”Documentary Film Criticism” workshop for French speaking school students. Alexandria, Mansoura, Port-Saïd and Cairo. CAF and PriMed film festival. (Jury member)
2021 “Costume Design” workshop, El Gouna Film Festival (GFF), El Gouna. (Staff)
2019 26th Sheffield documentary film festival, Sheffield.
2019 21st Ismailia Film Festival for Documentaries and Shorts, Ismailia. (Jury member)
2019 69th Berlinale, Berlin.
2018 2nd Regional Conference for Arab Independent Cinema (RCAIC), GFF, El Gouna.
2017 Venice film festival, Venice.
2017 14th CICAE training programme, Venice. (Participant)
2016 "Why Rights Matter?" workshop with the producer Benjamin Cölle, DOX BOX, Berlin. (Participant)
2016 Workshop with the filmmaker Richard Pearce, Darb 1718, Cairo. (Participant)
2015 Workshop with the filmmaker Rania Stephan, MIF, Cairo. (Participant)
2014 42nd Montpellier International festival, Montpellier.
2013 Berlinale Talent Campus, Berlin. (Participant)
2012 Max Ophüls Preis film festival.
2012 Documentary Campus, MENA region program, GI Cairo. Cairo, Tunis and Leipzig. (Participant)
2011 Cannes film festival, Cannes.
2010 Workshop with the artist Ursula Biemann, BA, Alexandria. (Participant)
2007 Filmmaking workshop, Semat Cairo, Ismailia. (Participant)
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Filmography
2004 "Icarus" (Fiction), directed by Islam Kamal, Co Production Manager.
2006 "Islands" (Fiction), directed by Mohamed Salah, Co Set Designer.
2007 "Maxim" (Fiction), directed by Mohamed Rashad, Production Manager.
2007 "Mandel el Helw" (Fiction), directed by Ayman El Amir, DOP.
2012 "The Mice Room" (Fiction), Assistant Director
2015 "Nasser" (Documentary), directed by Jihan el-Tahri, Archive Researcher.
2022 “The Tedious Tour of M” (Documentary), directed by Hend Bakr, Postproduction Associate Producer.

Filmography as a Director
2007 "Growing Distance" (Fiction), 12 min.
2008 "Collapsing" (Experimental), 4 min.
2009 "The Trip" (Experimental Documentary), 19 min.
2012 "Visitors of the City" (Documentary), 19 min.
2013 "A Bird on the Bridge" (Experimental), 8 min.
2014 "17 Fouad Street" (Documentary), 32 min.
2017 "The City will Pursue You" (Documentary), 70 min.