Abu Shawky
Abu Bakr Shawky is an Egyptian-Austrian filmmaker born in Cairo in 1985. He studied Political Science and Filmmaking in Cairo, and is a graduate of NYU Tisch School of the Arts where he wrote the screenplay of Yomeddine as his thesis project. His short films The Colony, Things I Heard On Wednesdays and Martyr Friday have screened at festivals around the world. Yomeddine, his first feature, was presented in competition at the Cannes Film Festival 2018.

Filmography (as director):
2008 – The Colony
2011 – Martyr Friday
2012 – Things I Heard on Wednesdays
2018 – Yomeddine