Medhat Saleh
Mohammed bin Al-Qasim · voice and songs
The young man who left Basra at 15 to rescue the wives and children of Arab merchants from pirates
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Our feature film
The adventure of Mohammed bin Al-Qasim, the boy who set out at 15 to rescue the wives and children of Arab merchants in the Indian Ocean
Festivals and awards
From the El Gouna Film Festival to Annecy in France
- Grand PrizeBest Animated Feature · ANIMAFILM, Baku, Azerbaijan 2021
- Official SelectionAnnecy International Animation Film Festival 2020, France
- NominationBest Animated Feature · Asia Pacific Screen Awards (APSA) 2021
- Official SelectionSan Diego Arab Film Festival 2020, USA
- PremiereEl Gouna Film Festival 2019, then cinemas across the Gulf and the Arab world
Shown onNetflixShahidGoogle PlayApple TVAlchemiyaUshub
The Arabic cast
Voices you'll know
Stars of Arab cinema and new talent gave the characters their voices, alongside more than 230 animation artists
Donia Samir Ghanem
Princess Lubna
The princess Mohammed bin Al-Qasim meets on his journey
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Abdel Rahman Abou Zahra
The Priest · voice and songs
The temple's priest and sorcerer, and Mohammed bin Al-Qasim's most dangerous enemy
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Mohamed Henedy
Bakhtou the genie · voice and songs
The skinny genie who speaks Egyptian Arabic, and the film's comic heart
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Maged El Kedwany
Shamhoresh the genie · voice and songs
Mighty Shamhoresh, the second genie and Bakhtou's sidekick
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Ghassan Matar
King Dahir
The tyrant king who shares the loot with the pirates
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Abla Kamel
Al-Hajjaj's daughter
One of the funniest characters in the film. Her scene with Bakhtou is one of the film's best-known clips
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Said Saleh
Abu Al-Riyah
A lively, life-loving character who shines in the song "Abu Al-Riyah"
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Lekaa Elkhamissi
The Narrator
The storyteller of the film, who sings its theme song "Mafeesh Mostaheel"
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Amina Rizk
Fakiha, mother of the readers
The first lady of Arab theatre as Fakiha, mother of the readers
Also starring the voices ofMohamed El Dafrawy (Al-Hajjaj)Ehsan El Qalawy (Al-Hajjaj's wife)Zayed FouadOsman Abdel MoneimSabry Abdel Moneim
Behind the scenes
Watch the stars record their lines
Clips from the film's dialogue recording sessions on The Knight and the Princess YouTube channel
Watch behind the scenesEl Gouna Film Festival · September 2019
Premiere night
The film's stars and makers, and hundreds of children, on the red carpet at El Gouna
Twenty years in the making
A film funded for years by our TV series
Animation is expensive, and there was no ready funding for an Arab feature film. So the studio would pause the film to produce TV series, and put the profits back into the film.
The result is a classic hand-drawn film, voiced by the Arab world's best-known stars and made entirely by Arab hands.
From the film
Stills
The team
Makers and voice cast
- Producer
- Alabbas bin Alabbas Hamidaddin
- Writer and director
- Bashir El Deek
- Co-director
- Ibrahim Mousa
- Character creator
- Mostafa Hussein
- Voices
- Mohamed Henedy, Abla Kamel, Medhat Saleh, Donia Samir Ghanem, Maged El Kedwany
Let's make your next story
Tell us what you have in mind and when you need it, and we'll come back with a concept and a timeline
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