Ali Samadi Ahadi

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Ali Samadi Ahadi

Ali Samadi Ahadi (born February 9, 1972 in Tabriz , Iran ) is a German director , screenwriter and film editor of Iranian origin.

Life

Ali Samadi Ahadi at the Grimme Prize 2011

Ali Samadi, born in Tabriz (Iran), fled his home country to Germany in August 1985 without parents as a result of the First Gulf War , in which he was to be forcibly recruited as a child soldier . In 1992 he passed the Abitur at the Leibniz School in Hanover . Ali Samadi then studied social sciences at the University of Hanover , design for electronic media at the Hanover University of Applied Sciences and as a visiting student visual communication with a focus on film and television at the Kassel University of Art , he dropped out of all courses in 1997. Ali Samadi has been working as a freelance director, screenwriter and editor since 2000.

For his documentary Lost Children about the fate of child soldiers in the conflict between Ugandan government troops and rebels, Ali Samadi Ahadi received the 2006 German Film Prize in the category of best documentary .

In 2009 Samadi, who now lives in Cologne , presented his culture clash comedy Salami Aleikum , with which he won the German Film Critics' Award for “Best Feature Film Debut” and the NDR Film Award for Young Talent at the 20th Emden International Film Festival. Norderney won. The 52-minute television documentary Iran: Elections 2009 followed in 2010 about the protests after the Iranian presidential elections in 2009 , for which he was awarded the Grimme Prize in 2011 . An 80-minute version of the film was released in 2011 under the title The Green Wave and was screened at the Sundance Film Festival in the “World Cinema Documentary” competition. Samadi has been a founding member of the Academy of the Arts in Cologne since October 2012 .

Filmography (selection)

Documentation team Iran: Elections 2009 at the Grimme Award 2011

Web links

Commons : Ali Samadi Ahadi  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Iran: Elections 2009 ( memento of October 5, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) at arte, accessed on April 2, 2011
  2. ↑ FAZ of February 23, 2011, page 31: The short summer of hope in Iran
  3. ↑ Homepage Academy of the Arts of the World Cologne ( memento from February 23, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ), accessed on December 30, 2012
personal data
SURNAME Samadi Ahadi, Ali
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German film director, screenwriter and film editor
DATE OF BIRTH February 9, 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH Tabriz