Nelly Karim, Sherif Salama Reunite for Film "Gawaza Wla Ganaza"
Nelly Karim and Sherif Salama are teaming up again on Amira Adeeb's next film "Gawaza Wla Ganaza" (Working Title).
It reunites Karim with Salama for the third time after working together on the 2023 film "Happy Birthday" and the 2022 TV series "Faten Amal Harby".
Karim made her last cinematic appearance in the star-studded film '
Al Serb
" (The Squadron).
The film features a starry cast that includes Ahmed El Sakka, Mustafa Fahmy, Amr Abdel-Galil, Sherif Mounir, Mohamed Mamdouh, Diab, Asser Yassin, Karim Fahmy, Mahmoud Abdel-Moghni, and more.
"Al Serb' premiered on May 1 and was first announced back in 2021 and hails from scriptwriter Omar Abdel Halim and director Ahmed Nader Galal. Synergy Films is the studio behind the film.
It is centered around the airstrike carried out by the army in Libya against ISIS after the extremist group massacred 21 Coptic Egyptians under the title of a message signed with blood. Egypt's President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi promised retribution and he fulfilled it.
Karim, born on December 18, 1974, is an Egyptian actress, former model, and ballet dancer.
She was born in Alexandria, Egypt, to a Russian mother and an Egyptian father. Karim graduated from the Ballet Arts Academy and began dancing ballet at the Opera in 1991.
The actress has starred in many television series such as 'Wajh al-Qammar', 'Hadeeth al-Sabah wa al-Masaa', 'al-Houb al-Kabir', and 'al-Bannat'.
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