---
name: "Sally El Hosaini"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/sally-el-hosaini"
fi1m_id: "sally-el-hosaini"
imdb_id: "nm2260751"
tmdb_id: 930699
wikidata_id: "Q3945649"
roles: ["Director"]
born: "1 June 1976"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "director"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-03T03:09:37.410547+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Sally El Hosaini

## Identity

Sally El Hosaini

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/sally-el-hosaini
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** sally-el-hosaini
- **IMDb ID:** nm2260751
- **TMDB ID:** 930699
- **Wikidata ID:** Q3945649
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sally_El_Hosaini, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3945649, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2260751/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/930699

Director. Born 1 June 1976 in Swansea, Wales, United Kingdom.

## Details

- **Work:** Director
- **Born:** 1 June 1976, Swansea, Wales, United Kingdom
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sally_El_Hosaini, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3945649, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2260751/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/930699

## Streaming the US now

- **Netflix:** [*The Swimmers*](https://film.one/film/the-swimmers.md) (66)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## 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.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The Swimmers* (2022), Fi1m 66, Director — [page](https://film.one/film/the-swimmers.md)

## Complete filmography (6)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Unicorns* (2024), Director, Executive Producer
- *The Swimmers* (2022), Director — Fi1m 66, [page](https://film.one/film/the-swimmers.md)
- *Babylon* (2014), series, Director
- *My Brother the Devil* (2012), Writer, Director, Executive Producer
- *Henna Night* (2009), Writer, Director
- *Bike Me Up*, Director, Writer

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