Siddiq Barmak (b. 1962)

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Birthplace:
Panjshir, Afghanistan

Born:
September 7, 1962

​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia  Siddiq Barmak (Born September 7, 1962) in Panjshir, Afghanistan, is a film director and producer. He received an M.A degree in cinema direction from the Moscow Film Institute (VGIK) in 1987.  He has written a few screenplays and has made a few short films. His first feature film Osama, won the Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film in 2004.  There is a stylistic echo in Osama featured in Afghan films by the Iranian Makhmalbaf dynasty; father Mohsen's Kandahar, and daughter Samira Makhmalbaf's At Five in the Afternoon, the latter also shot in post-Taliban Kabul. Barmak directed Osama with significant funding and assistance from the elder Makhmalbaf. The Iranian director invested thousands of dollars in the film, lending Barmak his Arriflex camera and encouraging him to send the movie to international festivals, which eventually generated further funding from Japanese and Irish producers. Barmak received "UNESCO’s Fellini Silver Medal" for his drama, Osama, in 2003.  Barmak is also director of the Afghan Children Education Movement (ACEM), an association that promotes literacy, culture and the arts, which was also founded by Makhmalbaf. The school trains actors and directors for newly emerging Afghan cinema. Barmak is one of the celebrated figures in Persian cinema as well as the emerging cinema of Afghanistan.  Description above from the Wikipedia article Siddiq Barmak, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Director:
1987  Stranger
2004  Osama
2008  Opium War

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1987  Stranger
2004  Osama
2008  Opium War

Producer:
1987  Stranger
2004  Osama
2008  Opium War
2010  An Apple from Paradise

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1987  Stranger
2004  Osama
2008  Opium War
2010  An Apple from Paradise

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2022  The Old Man

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