Tunisian actress Hend Sabry is joining hands with Ahmed Helmy for the first time in a new film.
In an interview with "El-Radio 9090", Sabry said:"The title is work in progress , I don’t know if I can say the name or not, but it is a strange film. I have never read a script like this,".
"I am very excited about my experience with Ahmed Helmy because he is a very dear friend and we have never worked together," noted Sabry.
"I may have worked with Ahmed El Sakka, Karim Abdel Aziz and Mohamed Henedy in radio series, and I would like to work with him out of my respect for him and my love for him as an artist,".
"Ahmed Helmy's upcoming film will be a surprise. I can't say anything else," she added.
Sabry made her last onscreen appearance alongside Egyptian actor Maged El Kedwany in the 2022 film “Fadl W Nemaa” and the historical epic “Kira & El Gin".
Sabry, born on November 20, 1979, made her acting debut at the age of fourteen in Moufida Tlatli's 1994 Tunisian movie "Samt al Qosoor" (Silence of the Palaces).
The movie was selected after 19 years from its debut in Dubai International Film Festival's "100 Most Important Arab Films" list.
Following "Samt al Qosoor", Sabry starred in several Tunisian productions until caught the attention of director Egyptian director Inas Al Degheidy who introduced her in 2002 to the Egyptian cinema through movie "Muzakirat Murahiqua" (A Teenager's Diary).
Sabry's role in the film gave her immediate stardom across the Arab world and paved her way to more films in the Egyptian cinema as well as highlighted her talents as a professional actress, and she became soon one of the most prominent Tunisian actresses in Egypt and the Arab world.
The actress had also starred in many remarkable Egyptian films including, "Mowaten we Mokhber we Haramy" (A Citizen, a Detective, and a Thief), "Banat West El Balad" (Downtown Girls) "Ibrahim El Abyad", and "Oumaret Yacoubian", (The Yacoubian Building).
Hend received more than 25 awards in appreciation of her achievements as an actress.