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Talal Derki (b. 1977)

Alias:
Талал Дерки
طلال ديركي

Birthplace:
Damascus, Syria

Born:
July 24, 1977

Biography from TheMovieDB

Talal Derki (Arabic: طلال ديركي ; born 24 July 1977 in Damascus, Syria of Kurdish descent) is a director, producer and screenwriter. Talal Derki studied film directing in Athens at Stavrako High Institute of Cinematographic Art and Television, graduation in 2003. He worked as an assistant director for feature film productions and was a director for different Arab TV programs & TV films between 2009 and 2012. He worked as a freelance cameraman for CNN and Thomson Reuters. Talal Derki’s short films and documentaries received awards at a variety of festivals. His feature documentary RETURN TO HOMS has won the Sundance Film Festival’s World Cinema Grand Jury Prize. In 2014 he was a member of the international Jury at IDFA. Talal Derki lives now in Exile in Berlin, Germany.  From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Film Production

Co-Producer:
2017  Of Fathers and Sons

Director:
2013  Return to Homs
2014  Homs, chronique d'une révolte
2016  Ode To Lesvos
2017  Of Fathers and Sons
2023  Under the Sky of Damascus

Producer:
2013  Return to Homs
2014  Homs, chronique d'une révolte
2016  Ode To Lesvos
2017  Of Fathers and Sons
2018  People of the Wasteland
2023  Under the Sky of Damascus
2024  Hollywoodgate

Writer:
2013  Return to Homs
2014  Homs, chronique d'une révolte
2016  Ode To Lesvos
2017  Of Fathers and Sons
2018  People of the Wasteland
2023  Under the Sky of Damascus
2024  Hollywoodgate

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