Us (Code of Happiness)

Name : Sherief
Family name : Hassan
Date of birth : 21st of May 1969
Nationality : Egyptian
Country of Residence : Egypt
Biography
After graduation in 1994 as an architect from faculty of fine arts , Architecture dept. , I started my career when I got trained in the Egyptian Radio and TV Union as a nonlinear video editor on Quantel systems and then I turned to be a professional nonlinear video editor in many satellite channels starting with the Egyptian Radio and TV Union and then Mehwar satellite channel and later ABC Kuwaiti channel and Sharm TV plus working as a free-lancer in many other channels .
In 2006 I started my own career as a specialized documentary film director and producer, and in 2013 I started my 1st fiction film directing 3 Movies till now .

Filmography
2008 6 hours 26 min Egyptian weekly markets in far villages deep in the western desert represent a very unique type of trading .
2009 Sea Gate 25 min A strange fishermen community living inside a 20 meters wide canal .
2009 Between (Life and Death ) 42 min A city lies in the heart of Cairo inside the cemetery yard , where people share the dead’s the place .
2010 A wedding Tale 30 min The 3 last days before the marriage of a young couple and everything is happening in a 5 meters wide alley .
2010 What do they say ? 40 min The prophet Mohamed, his relatives and Sufi leaders birthdays, are some kind of Islamic celebrations where strange actions, totally non Islamic, take place . A 9 year old girl tour, in her very first visit to such celebrations.
2010 Mostafa’s journey 28 min Mostafa a fisherman lives with his small family on the board of a very small boat .
2010 The Session 48 min Elzar is a kind of meditation ritual to get rid of the haunting elves and spirits . It has an africian origin, but was Egyptianized and got some Islamic retouches.
2011 Against Discrimination 53 min A group of Egyptians from different religions decided to face all kinds of religious discrimination in Egypt .
2011 In between the words 60 min Underground musical bands, were one of the few free voices before 2011 revolution, representing the humble citizens, so through a journey with 8 guys band, we follow the whole band story .
2011 Premiere 48 min A group of young talented amateur actors gathered to form an underground acting band, and through a journey inside their lives and minds, and the backstage behind the theater stage, we explore their secret worlds .
2011 The Road to Gaza 40 min When Ahmed the half American half Egyptian decided to leave the states and go back to Egypt , he didn’t know that this step will change his life 180 degrees, till he became a worldwide activist fighting for lifting the Siege on Gaza strip and aiming to free Palestine .
2011 Mr. Mohamed’s diary 28 min The ordinary day of a primary math teacher, who works in a small village. What can a half educated teacher do over his busy day, and what are his dreams for his 3 children , his suffers with his Neurological disability young child , the relations with his graduated students .
2012 The Island 33 min In 1860 a ran away teenager escaped from the Suez canal digging, after being called to serve there , with his mother and 2 cows , starting that unique community in Elmanzala lake, but for the 5th generation they are still unknown to the Egyptian government .
2012 The Lake 27 min Elmanzala lake suffers from many kinds of Violations, so through a one day journey on the board of a fishing boat, we try to discover all kinds of violations and the fishermen’s ideas about how to solve them and override all kinds of obstacles.
2014 A Second Chance I 25 min A documentary about stories of success in community education in Egypt where girls around 10 years, who missed the chance to join normal education system at the age of 6, cause of poverty or community habits in some areas, can have another chance to join simplified education system, and then join normal education system in the mid school phase.
2014 A Very Hot day (fiction movie) 51 min A man in his 50’s suffering from Autism discovers that today is his daughter’s birthday, so through a one day journey from Alexandria, where he lives, to Cairo, where his wife and daughter lives after splitting, he faces lots of troubles.
2014 Mobilia Center A commercial documentary about furniture industry in Sudan.
2015 GARBLT A documentary about Roads and Bridges Authority new projects in Egypt.
2016 Through Our Eyes, In Our Words 6 min A short documentary about teenagers refugees and Rap music.
2016 TDH 25 min A documentary about the role of NGO’s in readapting Syrian teenagers refugees and helping them to merge with the Egyptian society.
2017 A Second Chance II 19 min A documentary about stories of success in community education in Egypt where girls around 10 years, who missed the chance to join normal education system at the age of 6, cause of poverty or community habits in some areas, can have another chance to join simplified education system, and then join normal education system in the mid school phase.
2017 Transit (fiction movie) 77 min When a group of people from different religions, trends and ages, living in the same building, start to discover each other and by accident all of them are waiting to get their immigration visa for different reasons.
2018 Paranoia (fiction movie) 67 min A bride disappears during her honeymoon, directly after her marriage, he bridegroom searches for her everywhere, thinking his old partners kidnapped in order to get revenge.
2018 Nostalgia 50 min Nubia is a region between Egypt and Sudan, Nubians have their own language and culture, they were forced by nature, cause of the Nile flood to leave their lands many times, but in the mid 60’s of the last century, the force was political this time.
2019 Psalter 58 min When St. Mark the apostle, entered Egypt in 61 AD, Christianity was introduced officially to Egypt, and as a result of the Roman persecution, Monasticism and monasteries, coptic chants appeared, so we follow in this documentary the history of Coptic chants
2019 Us (Code of Happiness) 30 min In developing countries, lower middle class People live from hand to mouth, so the concept of happiness is just a state of mind, so we go through a one day journey in the life of 4 totally different people, and see how they find their code of happiness, and what do they have in common.
2022 On the road to Cairo 17 min Acting -like everything in Egypt- is central, everything is located in Cairo, so how can a talented actor -not from Cairo- achieve his dream, and start his professional acting career? So we followed Mohamed Dahy -a young talented Alexandrian actor- on his daily journey to achieve the 3 main goals, that will help him to start a professional acting career in Cairo.
2022 The 10th day 24 min While Rania -who lives with her father after her mother passed away- is getting ready to go to work, she receives a call from the hospital where her father is treated from Covid 19 telling her that his case is very critical, and she should get ready that he won't pass the day, so she felt lost between her deep grief, and what she be done for his burial.