Upon returning to Cairo, Egypt in 1982, Yousry Nasrallah worked with Youssef Chahine on several films starting with Adieu Bonaparte (1985) before going on to produce his own films. In 1988, his debut feature narrative film Summer Thefts was selected in Festival de Cannes’ Directors’ Fortnight. Nasrallah’s second feature narrative, Mercedes (1993), was selected at the Locarno Film Festival. He went on to produce other films, including On Boys, Girls and the Veil (1995), and The City (1999), which was awarded Locarno’s Special Jury Prize. His eponymous book-to-screen adaptation The Gate of Sun (2004) was in the Festival de Cannes’ Official Selection. He then went on to film The Aquarium (2008) and Scheherazade, Tell Me a Story (2009) which was screened at the Venice Film Festival. In 2011, his film Interior/Exterior was included in an anthology of shorts, 18 Days, and screened at the Festival de Cannes in honor of Egypt. The following year he was nominated for the Palm d’Or in Festival de Cannes with his film, After the Battle (2012). His latest film Brooks, Meadows and Lovely Faces was nominated for the Golden Leopard in the Official Competition at the Locarno Film Festival in 2016.