Mohamed Amin is an Egyptian film director.
Life
Amin's first film, ''Educational Film'' (2001), dealt with the theme of
sexual repression in Egyptian society: three sexually frustrated friends embark on a picaresque adventure, their group growing in size as they attempt to watch a porn video. ''The Night Baghdad Fell'' (2006) is an anti-American political fantasy, focusing on the reaction of an upper-middle-class family in
Cairo
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to the
Iraq invasion
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. ''Two Girls from Egypt'' (2010) depicts two single women in their early thirties, examining themes of spinsterhood, sexual experience, unemployment and political corruption. The film was banned in Kuwait.
Filmography
* ''Film Thaqafi''
ultural Film 2000.
* ''Laylat Soqoot Baghdad''
he Night Baghdad Fell 2006.
* ''Bentein Men Masr''
wo Girls from Egypt 2010.
* ''Febrayer Al-Eswed''
he Black February 2013.
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Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Egyptian film directors
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