Mohamed
Hossameldin
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Mohamed Hossameldin is an Italian-Egyptian filmmaker. He started his career working as a video operator for the Mediaset Group and Sky Channel. In 2011, he enrolled at RUFA -Rome University of Fine Arts, where he graduated in 2014. In 2015 he directed the short film "Sotto Terra", selected in many Festivals including Giffoni Film Festival, European Film Festival and winner of several awards.He was selected for two consecutive years (2017 and 2018) at the Venice Film Festival in the MigrArti section with: "Il Passo" and "Youse", produced and distributed by Premiere Film and co-produced by smile Vision. "Yousef" was nominated for the David di Donatello award and was the only Italian short film selected in the international competition of the Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival 2019.In 2020 he directs the second episode of the series "Zero" produced for Netflix by Fabula Pictures and in 2022 he becomes a member of the Premio Solinas jury. He currently has a fiction series under option with Asacha Media Group for an international platform and a documentary series for Sky Arte.He is currently developing his first feature film, which addresses the theme of identity conflict from a personal, intimate and authentic point of view.
Sottoterra
Yousef, an Egyptian teenager, joins his father in Rome for a better life. Instead, he lives in a garage with a distant father and works with an aggressive master who exhausts him. He finds solace in a secret relationship with an older client, who offers him the opportunity to study and change his future. But this will not be without consequences and will lead to serious problems at the garage, putting him in front of a difficult choice.
