Sahim Omar Kalifa
Sahim Omar Kalifa (born 1980 Zakho, Iraqi Kurdistan) is a Belgian-Kurdish filmmaker based in Belgium.
In 2001, he came to Belgium, and in 2008 he got his Master's degree in filmmaking at Sint-Lukas Film School, Brussels. With his short film Nan, Kalifa then won a prize of 60,000 euro for Best Flemish Student Film at the Leuven International Short Film Festival.
Kalifa has won 80 international awards with his short films Land of the Heroes, Baghdad Messi, and Bad Hunter.
Bad Hunter won the Jury Prize in the Muhr Short Film Competition at the 2014 Dubai International Film Festival.[1]
The most prestige Award was at 61st BERLIN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL with ‘Land Of The Heroes’ as Jury Award - Best Short Film ‘Generation’. ‘ ‘Baghdad Messi’ won 50 international Awards and it is shortlisted for [2]
‘Bad Hunter’ won also several international Awards at some important film festivals, like Jury Award at 59th Valladolid, 38th Montreal World, Dubai IFF and Flickerfest International Film Festival. Sahim was chosen in Istanbul as Best Kurdish film director in 2014. Sahim got Production-Support from Vlaams Audiovisueel Fonds for his debut film ‘Zagros’, which will be shot in 2016.
References
- ^ "Sahim Omar Kalifa's shorts keep on scoring". Retrieved 16 February 2015.
- ^ the 87th Academy awards, the Oscars 2015 'http://www.oscars.org/news/10-live-action-shorts-advance-2014-oscar-race'