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Film Director, Producer and Actress
Country of origin
Switzerland

Director Aida Schlaepfer Alhassani, born in Baghdad in 1970 and based in Switzerland, is a filmmaker, producer, actress, and artist. She holds degrees in Accounting, Business Management, Art, and Media Design, and earned a master’s in film Directing. Aida directed the award-winning doc."Souls In Transit," which qualified for the 95th Academy Awards. She is founder and co-president of the IAFFZ (International Arab Film Festival Zurich) and has curated and programmed films at major international festivals. She is a member of Swiss, Egyptian, and Iraqi filmmakers’ associations & Egyptian critics.

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Festivals

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Land of A Thousand and One Nights and Persian poetry, Iran has turned cinema into the art of suggestion: when speech is monitored, the image becomes a poem and editing a figure of style.
“To get straight to the point, Robert Redford was an idol of my youth.” This is how Peter Paul Huth begins his obituary for the famous actor, director, and festival founder.

Events

16.02.2025
Haus der EKD, Charlottenstraße 53/54, 10117 Berlin
11.10.2023
Café of the Propsteikirche Leipzig, Nonnenmühlgasse 2

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