Romuald Karmakar
Romuald Karmakar (* February 15, 1965 in Wiesbaden ) is a film director living in Germany and screenwriter. He turns primarily documentaries, as well as feature films.
Life and work
Karmakar is the son of a French mother and an Iranian father. From 1977 to 1982 he lived in Athens, in 1984 he put in Munich on Oskar -von-Miller -Gymnasium Abitur and started from the mid-1980s to shoot documentaries and feature films. Since 2009 he is member of the Academy of Arts in Berlin.
In 2008 he turned the segment over the Berghain DJ Ricardo Villalobos for Volker Heise's 24 - hour documentary project 24h Berlin - A Day in the Life. For the presented at the Berlinale 2009 Community Project Germany 09 Karmakar contributed the short film Ramses.
2010 Karmakar retrospective was held at the Film Museum Vienna, at the request of the director's and Utopia by Sohrab Shahid Saless was shown.
Romuald Karmakar will make 2013 along with Ai Weiwei Santu Mofokeng and Dayanita Singh the German Pavilion at the Venice Biennale. He is currently a Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.