First Contact (1983 film)
"First Contact" is the first documentary in what later became known as "The Highland Trilogy". The other two films are "Joe Leahy's Neighbours" (1989) and "Black Harvest" (1992). These three films, between them, have won some thirty major awards, included each film winning both the Grand Prix at the Festival Cinéma du Réel in Paris and AFI Award for Best Documentary.
Asma El Bakry
El Bakry made a number of documentary and short films, before making her first feature as a director in 1991, "", which she also co-produced.
It could be argued that most of her documentaries reveal deep interest in Egyptian history and a keen desire to shed light on its past civilizations with the ultimate aim of instructing the new generation. In "Dahsha", for instance, she traces the history of wooden boats used by the ancient Egyptians until modern times. In "El Zaher District" ("Hay el Daher"), she sheds light on the history of that district in Cairo, which was established by the Sultan Zaher Bibars in the thirteenth century.