Khalid Abdalla
8 titles
Filmography
8 results

The Square
(2013)This Oscar-nominated documentary gets a firsthand look at the Egyptian Revolution, chronicling the fall of two consecutive Egyptian Presidents.

The Narrow Frame of Midnight
(2014)In Morocco, a melancholy man searching for his missing brother crosses paths with an enslaved orphan and attempts to save her from her grim fate.

In the Last Days of the City
(2016)Tamer El Said’s debut tells the story of a filmmaker from downtown Cairo as he struggles to capture the soul of a city on edge. Shot in Cairo, Beirut, Baghdad and Berlin during the two years before the outbreak of revolution in Egypt, the film’s multi-layered stories are a visually rich exploration of friendship, loneliness, loss and life in cities shaped by the shadows of war and adversity.

The Kite Runner
(2007)Finding Neverland director Marc Forster adapts author Khaled Hosseini's critically acclaimed novel about two childhood best friends forever torn apart as their country is ravaged by endless war and bitter strife. As children, Amir (Khalid Abdalla) and Hassan were inseparable; their long days under azure Kabul skies often spent getting into innocent mischief or preparing for the highly anticipated kite-fighting tournament. When the day of the tournament arrives however, a glorious victory is quickly offset by a timorous act of betrayal that ultimately serves as the catalyst for catastrophe. Not long after that fateful day, Amir moves away to America, leaving his old friend behind just as the ominous spectre of war turns tragically tangible. Two decades later, Amir returns to Afghanistan to find his beloved homeland has now fallen under the iron-fisted rule of the Taliban. Still, all hope for redemption hasn't been lost just yet, because now that Amir stands face to face with the irrepressible secrets that he struggled so vigilantly to bury, he will receive one last chance to make peace with the past, and lay the groundwork for a brighter future.

Birds Like Us
(2017)A bird looking for a better life for her egg joins a stubborn king and a wise, blind bat on a dazzling odyssey to find the tree they’ll call home.

Green Zone
(2010)During the U.S.-led occupation of Baghdad in 2003, Chief Warrant Officer Roy Miller and his team of Army inspectors were dispatched to find weapons of mass destruction believed to be stockpiled in the Iraqi desert.

Our Kind of Traitor
(2016)An English couple vacationing in Marrakech befriends a charismatic traveler, who serves the Russian mafia and ensnares them in his world of espionage.

Undergods
(2021)In a post-apocalyptic world, citizens and worker bees scour the wreckage of a lost European civilization for survival as they face certain doom.