Hussein Hassan Ali

Born: 1974-06-13

Hussein Hassan Ali is a well-known 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 TV-Drama “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 Korki’s award-winning film “Crossing the Dust” (2006) as well as in Korki’s equally successful film “Memories on Stone” (2014). In the same year, he acted in Batin Ghobadi’s “Mardan” (2014) which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival and was the official “Oscar” suggestion for Iraq. Hassan’s 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


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Crossing the Dust

as Azad
Released: 2006-12-01

A road movie set in Iraq in 2003 during the fall of Saddam. Two Kurds are looking for the...

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Baghdad Messi

as Bahoz
Released: 2023-08-03

The talented Hamoudi is an 11-year-old boy with a passion for soccer and an ultimate dream to...

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The Exam

as Sardar
Released: 2021-08-25

Rojin is a young Kurdish woman about to take the university entrance exam. Rojin's unhappily...

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Memories on Stone

as Hussein
Released: 2014-07-06

Kurdish childhood friends Hussein and Alan want to produce a film about the genocide of Kurdish...

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House Without Roof

as Omeed (Peshmerga)
Released: 2016-06-28

Alan, Jan and Liya, born in Kurdistan, raised in Stuttgart, want to grant their deceased mother...

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Mardan

as Mardan
Released: 2014-09-06

A police officer finds himself haunted by a traumatic childhood memory as he searches for a...

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The Rain Bride

as Reber
Released: 2022-12-01

Young mother Lori must say goodbye to her husband, who decides to join the war against ISIS. She...

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Peacemaker

as Hawar Ciziri
First aired: 2020-09-04

Finnish peace negotiator Ann-Mari Sundell has recently retired from her post as a crisis...

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Rain

as Bakhtiar
First aired: 2023-02-02

Rain dramas the social phenomena that society suffers from now and in the past are mentioned in...

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