Sahim Omar Kalifa

Sahim Omar Kalifa (b. 1980, Zakho, Iraqi Kurdistan) has lived in Belgium since 2001, and there he studied audiovisual arts. He shot the movies Laatse Beslissing (2005), Zwart Water (2006), and Face to Face (2007), and graduated with the short Nan (2008). Land of the Heroes earned, among other prizes, a jury award from the Generation section at the 2011 Berlinale. In 2012 he shot another short film about war, children, and television entitled Baghdad messi.

48. MFF Karlovy Vary