Samir (filmmaker)


Samir is a Swiss filmmaker, film producer and director.

Life and work

Samir was born the son of a Swiss mother and an Iraqi father in Baghdad. Samir's full name is Samir Jamal al Din / Samir Jamal Aldin. His family moved to Switzerland in 1961, where he went to school. He attended the School of Design in Zurich, completed an apprenticeship as a typographer and subsequently trained as a cameraman with Condor Films. From 1983, he worked as a freelance director and cinematographer. From 1984 to 1991 he was a writer and member of Videoladen Zurich. In 1994, he and documentary filmmaker Werner Schweizer overtook the film production company.
From the mid-1980s, he began to realize his own films. In the 1990s he worked among others on behalf of Condor Films
as a director of series like Eurocops
and television films for German TV stations. His list of works – as a writer, director and/or producer – now includes over 40 short and feature films for cinema and TV.
In 2006 he received the Aargau Culture Award.
Samir Jamal al Din, chose to appear under his first name only – quote:

Filmography

as director
As co-/producer a.o.: documentary film "White Terror" by Daniel Schweizer, mockumentary "Birdseye" by Stephen Beckner and Michael C. Huber, feature films "Nachbeben / Aftershock" by Stina Werenfels, "Das Fräulein" by Andrea Staka, "Opération Libertad" by Nicolas Wadimoff, "Dawn" by Romed Wyder.

Reviews

Iraqi Odyssey
Forget Baghdad