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Mohamed Jabarah Al Daradji Sundance Fellow and Variety’s Middle East Filmmaker of the year in 2010, was born in Baghdad and studied film and television production at the Media Academy in Hilversum, The Netherlands. He completed his masters at the Northern Film School, Leeds, where he won the prestigious Kodak Student Award. He returned to Iraq to make his first feature, Ahlaam, which screened all over the world and won numerous awards. His next film, son of babylon, premiered at the Festival in 2009 before going on to worldwide acclaim. The documentary in my mother’s arms (2011), which he co-directed with his brother Atia, received support from ADFF’s SANAD fuin and premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival. He is currently working on his third feature, the train station. This project is supported by SANAD and was selected for L’Atelier at the Cannes Film Festival.
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