Hany Abu-Assad (Arabic: هاني أبو أسعد; born 11 October 1961) is an Israeli and Dutch film director and screenwriter of Palestinian origin.

[1] In 1981, he immigrated to the Netherlands, where he studied aerodynamics in Haarlem and worked as an airplane engineer for several years.

Abu-Assad founded Ayloul Film Productions in 1990 with the Palestinian filmmaker Rashid Masharawi.

[7] In 1998, he directed his first film, Het 14de kippetje (The Fourteenth Chick), from a script by writer Arnon Grunberg.

[14] In 2014, Abu-Assad was invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.