Ali Samadi Ahadi

Ali Samadi Ahadi ( born February 9, 1972 in Tabriz, Iran) is a German film director, screenwriter and editor of Iranian origin.

Life

Ali Samadi, born in Tabriz - Iran, fled following the First Gulf War, in which he should be forcibly recruited as a child soldier, in August 1985 without parents from his home to Germany. In 1992 he laid in Hannover at the Leibniz school from the High School. Then Ali Samadi studied social sciences at the University of Hannover, Design for Electronic Media at the Fachhochschule Hannover, and as a visiting student of visual communication with a focus on film and television at the Kassel School of Art, all courses he broke 1997. Since 2000, Ali Samadi works as a freelance director, screenwriter and editor.

For his documentary Lost Children about the plight of child soldiers in the conflict between the Ugandan government forces and rebels Ali Samadi Ahadi 2006 received the German Film Award in the category Best Documentary.

2009 put Samadi, who now lives in Cologne, his culture clash comedy Salami ALEIKUM ago, in which he, among others, the price of the German Film Critics for "Best feature film debut" and the NDR Film Prize for the offspring at the 20th International Filmfest Emden - Norderney won. 2010 was followed by the 52 -minute television documentary Iran: Elections 2009 on the protests following the Iranian presidential elections in 2009, for which he was in 2011 awarded the Grimme Prize. Under the title The Green Wave came 2011, a 80-minute version of the film in theaters and was screened at the Sundance Film Festival in competition " World Cinema Documentary ". Since October 2012 Samadi is a founding member of the Academy of Arts of the World in Cologne.

Filmography (selection)