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Sherief Elkatsha
Katsha Films
In 2025, documentary filmmaker and producer Sherief Elkatsha was commissioned by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York to make a three-minute film, “The Moulid of Abu Haggag” as part of their Divine Egypt exhibition. He is currently finishing shooting and editing a documentary short about “Okra”, an empowering business venture in upper Egypt; a restaurant run and operated entirely by women. In 2024, Elkatsha directed “Re-Imagining Esna” about the restoration and grass-roots community development in Esna, Egypt, through the Egyptian company Takween- Inter-Community Development. Submitting the film as part of their proposal, Takween- ICD went on to win the Aga Khan 2025 Award for Achitecture for their work in Esna. In 2022, Elkatsha completed Far From the Nile, a feature-length film following 12 musicians from different countries along the Nile River basin on their U.S. tour. The film premiered at the 44th Cairo International Film Festival, where it won “Best Non-Fiction Film.” In February 2023, Far From the Nile was also awarded the Silver Prize at the Luxor African Film Festival and received an “Exceptional Merit” Award at Docs Without Borders International Film Festival. In 2013, Elkatsha premiered his third feature documentary, Cairo Drive, awarded “The Best Film from the Arab World”/Documentary Competition, at the Abu Dhabi Film Festival 2013. Other honors include the Grand Jury Prize at DOC NYC 2014 and special mention at Open City Docs in London 2014. In 2014, Elkatsha was commissioned by the EYE Film Institut Nederland to make a short film combining stock and his own footage, which resulted in Krokodillen. He was also the cinematographer for Cairo Garbage (2009), by Mikala Krogh, part of Cities on Speed. Elkatsha co–directed Egypt: We are Watching You (2007), about pre-revolutionary politics in Egypt, through eyes of the activist group, Shayfeen.com, as part of the Why Democracy series. His first feature documentary, Butts Out (2004), which followed five smokers’ struggles to quit cigarettes, received the Best Documentary Award at the 2006 New England Film and Video Festival.
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