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Zaher Samir Kusaibati is a director, producer, and sound editor. Born in Damascus in 1991, he obtained a diploma in film direction from the Syrian Academy in 2021. He directed a film titled "Aqd" in 2020, which was selected as one of the top ten films from 400 entries in the Mentor in Arabic competition, highlighting Arab cinematic talent. Additionally, he directed another film called "Bitter Sweetness" in 2024, gaining widespread recognition. Zaher possesses notable skills in sound editing, earning several awards for his contributions to the sound design of various cinematic productions. Apart from his directorial endeavors, he is actively involved in a long-term novel project. Zaher is also the owner and manager of "Art House for Artistic Production."
Most data and links to images for the Movies section come from TheMovieDB (TMDB).
Additional data for Film Titles come from The Open Movie Database (OMDb).
At least one plug-in comes from IMDb.
Data are -- hey, it's a plural -- subject to the limitations of their sources. (For example, TMDB search results currently max out at 20.) I am limiting myself to free data sources for now. (No, a "free trial" is not free.)
While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:
Regarding profile removals and data corrections:
Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).
Whereas the overall purpose of this website is to serve as a personal demo/portfolio/workshop of web and data skills, this Movies section is not meant to compete with or substitute for far more definitive movie websites.
Whether or not he still clings to an award which he won in 1986 as a film critic for his college's newspaper, Jeffrey Hartmann is not responsible for the texts of overviews and biographies supplied by external data sources.