Samir (director)

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Samir (actually Samir Jamal Aldin ; born July 29, 1955 in Baghdad ) is a Swiss filmmaker , film producer and director .

life and work

Samir was born in Baghdad as the son of a Swiss woman and an Iraqi . His parents moved to Switzerland in 1961, where he also went to school. He then attended the School of Design in Zurich and did an apprenticeship as a typographer (1971–73) and then trained as a cameraman at Condor Films . From 1983 he worked as a freelance director and cameraman. In 1985 he became a Swiss citizen . From 1984 to 1991 he was an author and member of the video store in Zurich . In 1994 he took over the film production company Dschoint Ventschr together with documentary filmmaker Werner Schweizer .

From the mid-1980s he began making his own films. In the 1990s he worked, among other things, on behalf of Condor Films AG as a director of series such as Eurocops and television films for numerous German-language television stations. His list of works - as an author, director and / or producer - now includes over 40 short and feature films for cinema and television.

In 2006 he received the Aargau Culture Prize . In 2015, Samir's documentary Iraqi Odyssey was named as a Swiss candidate for an Oscar nomination in the category of best foreign language film .

He is one of the initiators of the Zurich Kulturhaus Kosmos , which was set up in 2017, and Samir was a member of the board of directors until he left in June 2019.

Samir appears under his first name - quote:

"[…] Why? «Jamal al Din means the beauty of religion. I don't know how you would be if you weren't very religious and you would always have to say, 'Hello, my name is Beauty-of-Religion' ", says [he] [...]" 'Samir' is perfect for me because that means 'storyteller'. ""

- Daniela Sannwald : “Iraqi Odyssey” at the Berlinale: Stories from Worry Land

Filmography (selection)

as a director
  • 1984: oblique body
  • 1984: silent film (short film)
  • 1987: Morlove - an ode to Heisenberg (TV movie)
  • 1988: Eurocops (TV series, an episode)
  • 1988: Filou (also screenplay)
  • 1991: Always & forever (also production, screenplay, camera)
  • 1992: (It Was) Just a Job (also screenplay, camera)
  • 1993: Babylon 2 (documentary, also screenplay)
  • 1994: La productrice
  • 1995: The Three - Hatred; Now or never; Death operation
  • 1998: The Butchers (TV movie)
  • 1996: The Partners (TV series, an episode)
  • 1996: Fatal sisterly love
  • 1998: Angélique (Blind Date)
  • 1997: La eta knabino au kiel oni trovas ian helpon (short film, also screenplay, production management)
  • 1998: Projecziuns tibetanas (documentary film, also screenplay, camera, editing)
  • 2001: Norman Plays Golf (also screenplay)
  • 2002: Forget Baghdad: Jews and Arabs - The Iraqi Connection (documentary, also screenplay, editor, cast)
  • 2004: ZwischenSprach (documentary, also screenplay)
  • 2005: Snow White (also screenplay)
  • 2010: Escher, the angel and the Fibonacci numbers (documentary, also screenplay)
  • 2014: Iraqi Odyssey (documentary, also production, screenplay, camera, editor, cast)
  • 2019: Baghdad in My Shadow (thriller, also screenplay; together with Furat al Jamil)

As (co-) producer, among others: Documentary White Terror by Daniel Schweizer (2005), Mockumentary Birdseye by Stephen Beckner and Michael C. Huber (2002), feature films Aftershocks by Stina Werenfels (2006), Das Fräulein by Andrea Štaka (2006) , Opération Libertad by Nicolas Wadimoff (2012).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.cineman.ch/article/samir-im-interview-zu-baghdad-in-my-shadow
  2. ↑ Schweizer Illustrierte , September 13, 2004
  3. ↑ "Iraqi Odyssey" represents Switzerland in the competition for an Oscar ( memento of the original from March 8, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Media release by the Federal Office of Culture, August 27, 2015. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.news.admin.ch
  4. ↑ Hans Jörg Zinsli: Zurich Kosmos friends are fighting for their cultural center , Tages-Anzeiger , June 29, 2019, https://m.tagesanzeiger.ch/articles/18548641 .
  5. ^ "Iraqi Odyssey" at the Berlinale: Stories from the Worry Land by Daniela Sannwald, tagesspiegel.de February 8, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Samir
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jamal Aldin, Samir (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss film director and film producer
DATE OF BIRTH July 29, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Baghdad , Iraq