The Most Famous
FILM DIRECTORS from Yemen
This page contains a list of the greatest Yemeni Film Directors. The pantheon dataset contains 2,041 Film Directors, 1 of which were born in Yemen. This makes Yemen the birth place of the 99th most number of Film Directors behind Cambodia, and Kenya.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Yemeni Film Directors of all time. This list of famous Yemeni Film Directors is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Khadija al-Salami (b. 1966)
With an HPI of 47.17, Khadija al-Salami is the most famous Yemeni Film Director. Her biography has been translated into 16 different languages on wikipedia.
Khadija al-Salami (Arabic: خديجة السلامي; born November 11, 1966, in Sana'a, Yemen), is the first Yemeni female film producer and director. Al-Salami currently resides in Paris, France. She has been nominated and also won awards at film festivals such as the Dubai International Film Festival and Vesoul Asian Film Festival. Her semi-autobiographical 2014 film, I Am Nujood, Age 10 and Divorced was submitted to the Academy Awards, but was not selected.
People
Pantheon has 1 people classified as Yemeni film directors born between 1966 and 1966. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Yemeni film directors include Khadija al-Salami. As of April 2024, 1 new Yemeni film directors have been added to Pantheon including Khadija al-Salami.
