Biography
Sally El Hosaini is a Welsh-Egyptian film director and screenwriter. She was born in Swansea, Wales, in 1976 and raised in Cairo, Egypt. She studied Arabic and Middle Eastern studies at Durham University and worked as a script editor on the BAFTA and Emmy-winning series House of Saddam before directing her own films.
Her debut feature, My Brother the Devil (2012), which she also wrote, is a crime drama about two brothers of Egyptian heritage in east London. It premiered at Sundance, where it won the World Cinema Cinematography award, and received further prizes including Best European Film at Berlin. She directed and co-wrote the 2022 Netflix film The Swimmers, based on the true story of Syrian sisters Yusra and Sara Mardini.
