Question: Are the directors of films Smithereens (film) and Night/Ext both from the same country?

This article lists magician characters depicted on film, both real and fictional. <SEP> She first came to notice with" Smithereens"( 1982), the earliest American independent feature to be screened in Competition at the Cannes Film Festival. Susan Seidelman( born December 11, 1952) is an American film director, producer and writer. Her next feature" Desperately Seeking Susan"( 1985) co-starred Madonna in her first film. " She- Devil"( 1989) starred Meryl Streep in her first starring comedic film role and Roseanne Barr in her first feature- film role. Seidelman's subsequent films mix comedy with drama, blending genres and pop-cultural references with a focus on women protagonists, particularly outsiders. She also works in television and directed the pilot episode of" Sex and the City". <SEP> The film follows a narcissistic young woman from New Jersey who comes to New York City to join the punk subculture, only to find that it's gravitated towards Los Angeles; in order to pay her way across country, she engages in a number of parasitic relationships, shifting her allegiances to new "friends" in an ongoing effort to ultimately endear herself to someone who will finance her desired lifestyle. Smithereens is a 1982 American drama film directed by Susan Seidelman and starring Susan Berman, Brad Rijn (billed as "Brad Rinn"), and punk rock icon Richard Hell. "Smithereens" marked the debut of Oscar-nominated screenwriter Ron Nyswaner ("Philadelphia") and features a score by The Feelies. It was the first American independent film invited to compete for the Palme d'Or at the 1982 Cannes Film Festival. "Smithereens" is a precursor to Seidelman's next film, "Desperately Seeking Susan"; both films share similar themes of female identity and self-reinvention. <SEP> His debut feature film is" Heliopolis"( 2009); his second film is" Microphone"( 2010). He studied music in the 1990s and began working as a film editor in 1999. He moved to feature- length films in 2002 and began doubling as a visual effects supervisor and credits designer. He was winner of the Best First screenplay Award of Sawiris Foundation in Cairo 2008 for" Heliopolis". His upcoming film" Rags and Tatters" has been selected to be screened in the Contemporary World Cinema section at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival. Participated as a jury member in some film festivals like London Film Festival in the 2014 Edition and Carthage film festival and others. Ahmad Abdalla El Sayed Abdelkader( born on December 19, 1979, Cairo) is an Egyptian film director, editor and screenwriter. Had his first retrospective in Singapore international film festival in 2014. <SEP> Night/ Ext is a 2018 Egyptian drama film directed by Ahmad Abdalla. It was screened in the Contemporary World Cinema section at the 2018 Toronto International Film Festival. Sherif Desoky won the award for Best Actor at the 40th Cairo International Film Festival for his role in the film. <SEP> Rémy Card is a French software developer who is credited as one of the primary developers of the Extended file system( ext) and Second Extended file system( ext2) for Linux.