Marwan Hmam

Biography

Marwan Hmam is a filmmaker and film editor from Beni Suef, the gateway to Upper Egypt. He is pursuing a BA in Film Editing at the Higher Institute of Cinema while studying Film Distribution and Programming at the Jesuit Cinema Academy. He previously studied Film and Media Studies at Swarthmore College in the United States before continuing his education in Egypt. Marwan aims to explore his cinematic language by unfolding the distinct geographies he has inhabited across Egypt, highlighting themes of unspoken emotions, memory, place, identity, and human relationships. Marwan shot his first sh…