[2] Sabry’s breakthrough in the film industry was in 1994 at the age of 14 in her first acting role in The Silences of the Palace (Samt El Qosour), the debut feature of Moufida Tlatli.

She returned to the big screen in Tlatli’s second feature, The Season of Men (2000) a feminist critique of the traditional code of behavior that many Tunisian women are subjected to.

[5] The story of a teenage girl (Sabry) who embarks on a sexual relationship proved to be controversial in Egypt for breaking taboos around pre-marital sex.

In 2009 Sabry appeared in Marwan Hamad’s second feature, Ibrahim Labyad (2009) an Egyptian drama co-starring Ahmed El-Sakka one of Egypt’s biggest stars.

Adapted from Ghada Abdel Aal‘s popular autobiographical blog-turned-book, the series pokes fun at, while criticizing, the societal pressures Egyptian women face to get married young.

[8] Inspired by real events of an Egyptian woman who died from a burst gallbladder because doctors refused to operate when learning she had HIV, Salama sought to raise awareness and change misconceptions about AIDS in Egypt.

Sabry played the lead role of a mother who disguises herself as a Jihadi woman to rescue her teenage son who had joined ISIS in Aleppo, Syria.

[15] That same year she appeared in the drama series Life is Beautiful, (Halawat Al Dounia) about a woman who is diagnosed with leukemia right before getting married, and starring opposite fellow Tunisian Dhafer L’Abidine.

[17] In Noura's Dream a small Tunisian independent film, she plays a working-class mother of three in the wake of the Arab Spring whose abusive husband is being released from prison early.

I can also speak in my mother tongue, which always helps me in my performance.”  [17] Sabry became the first Arab woman to ever receive the Starlight Cinema Award of the Venice Film Festival in 2019.

In 2022 Sabry would again collaborate with Marwan Hamad (for the fourth time) in his next record-breaking blockbuster Kira and El Gin and opposite Ahmed Ezz and Karim Abdel Aziz.

It was well received by critics and a massive box office success, breaking the previous records held by Hamad's 2019 hit Blue Elephant 2.

Universally acclaimed, Four Daughters took home three prizes at Cannes 2023 and was in contention for both Best Documentary as well the short-list for Best International Feature Film at the 2023 Oscars.

[19] In 2024 Sabry took on the starring role of Amira in Moftaraq Toroq (Crossroads), the Arabic adaptation of the popular American series The Good Wife.

Sabry, who had always represented herself, signed with the talent agency CAA in 2023 explaining that in addition to identifying more acting roles, she was interested to find more female-driven projects for her Salam Production company.