Raafat El-Mihy (September 29, 1940 - July 24, 2015) is an Egyptian director and one of the directors who excelled in experimentation. He graduated from the Faculty of Arts, Department of English Language, then obtained a diploma from the Film Institute in 1964. Raafat Al-Mihy wrote the first screenplay of the cinema in 1966, and the screenplay of the movie "The Rain Dried Up" became the most prominent son of his generation from the screenwriter. In the seventies of the twentieth century, he collaborated with director Kamal Al-Sheikh in films: sunset and sunrise and something in my chest and fugitive and on whom we shoot. In 1981, Raafat El-Mihy announced himself as a cinematographer when he presented his first movie "Eyes Never Sleeps" about the play "Desire under the Elm Tree" by Eugene or Neal, then that film was followed by seven films (sunset and sunrise 1970, Avocato 1984 for love, a final story 1986, gentlemen men 1987) Fish, milk, Indian dates, 1988, ladies, 1990, a little love, a lot of violence, 1995, dead, apple, 1996, six sixties, 1998, because our Lord loves you 2001). His films participated in more than one international festival, such as: (Carlo Vivari, Valencia Barcelona, ​​Bastia, New Delhi, Cairo). His films took many prizes, as "Avocato" won the Jury Prize at the V V Festival in 1985, and "Love Has a Last Story" won a special award at the Carlo Vivari Festival, and "Little Love Much Violence" won the award. The first in the fifth national festival for feature films in 1995. And the first prize in the fifth national festival for feature films in 1995.

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