Hussein Hassan Ali

Hussein Hassan Ali is a wellknown director writer and actor from Kurdistan Iraq In 2006 he shot his first feature film Narcissus Blossom which was screened at the Panorama section at the 56th Internationale Film Festspiele Berlin and at the Toronto International Film Festival The film was awarded the Amnesty International Film Prize at the Berlinale In 2009 Hassan Ali finished his second feature film as writer and director called Herman which premiered at Pusan International Film Festival He directed 29 episodes of the Kurdish TV Drama Dilan for KurdSat in 2008 From 2009 to 2010 he directed ten episodes of the KurdSat TVDrama My Dream Although constantly working on his own film projects Hassan Ali is also a successful actor He played the leading role in Shawkat Amin Korkis awardwinning film Crossing the Dust 2006 as well as in Korkis equally successful film Memories on Stone 2014 In the same year he acted in Batin Ghobadis Mardan 2014 which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival and was the official Oscar suggestion for Iraq Hassans film 2016 Reseba The Dark Wind won several prestigious prizes including UNESCO Award at the Asian Pacific Screen Awards the Muhr Award at the Dubai International Film Fest 2016 and the FIPRESCI Prize at Dhaka International Film Festival 2017 In 2019 Hussein shot his first international project in the English language in the Finnish TV series Peacemaker streaming online now