Samir (director)
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'. ""
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
- Samir in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Swiss Films: Samir on swissfilms.ch
- SAMIR producer, author, director - bio- and filmography on Dschoint Ventschr (dschointventschr.ch)
- Show «Schawinski». Roger Schawinski in conversation with Samir. Video in: SRF 1 from March 23, 2015 ( online, 27 minutes )
Individual evidence
- ↑ https://www.cineman.ch/article/samir-im-interview-zu-baghdad-in-my-shadow
- ↑ Schweizer Illustrierte , September 13, 2004
- ↑ "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.
- ↑ Hans Jörg Zinsli: Zurich Kosmos friends are fighting for their cultural center , Tages-Anzeiger , June 29, 2019, https://m.tagesanzeiger.ch/articles/18548641 .
- ^ "Iraqi Odyssey" at the Berlinale: Stories from the Worry Land by Daniela Sannwald, tagesspiegel.de February 8, 2015.
personal data | |
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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 |