Ali Samadi Ahadi

Ali Samadi Ahadi
Film director, Screenwriter, Editor
Principal country concerned : Column : Theater, Cinema/tv

Ali Samadi Ahadi geboren am 9. Februar 1972 in Tabriz im Azerbaijan/ Iran, 1972. Während des Iran / Irak Krieges wurde Ali, wie auch viele andere Kinder im Iran, als Soldat ausgebildet und erlernte das Kriegshandwerk. Als 12-jähriger floh er allein aus seiner Heimat, um dem Tod im Krieg zu entgehen. Ohne Familie kam er nach Deutschland und machte Abitur in Hannover. Ali Samadi schloss an der Gesamthochschule Kassel sein Studium der visuellen Kommunikation mit Schwerpunkt Film und TV ab. Er hat bereits bei mehreren Dokumentationen Regie geführt. LOST CHILDREN ist sein Debüt als Autor/ Regisseur eines langen Dokumentarfilms.


Filmografie (als Autor & Regisseur)

2004
"Lost Children", Dokumentarfilm zusammen mit Oliver Stoltz

2003
"Culture Clan", Musik - Dokumentation

2002
"Africa-mayibuye", Dokumentation

2000
"Black-Coloured-White", Dokumentation

1999
"Boot-Piepel", Drehbuch für einen Spielfilm

1998
"Goodbye Matze", Kurzfilm

1996
"Geburtstag mit der Omi", Kurzfilm







Ali Samadi Ahadi was born in 1972 in Azerbaijan/ Iran. During the Iran-Iraq warAli was trained, as many other children in Iran, as a soldier and learned how to fight. When he was 12 years old, he escaped alone from home to avoid being killed in the war. He arrived in Germany without his family and took his Abitur (highest school degree in Germany, equivalent to British A-levels and US SAT) in Hannover. At the Gesamthochschule (equivalent to former polytechnics in GB. or amalgamated university in the US.) Kassel Ali Samadi graduated in Visual Communication. He's already directed several short documentary films. The documentary Africa Mayibuye had its premiere at the filmfestival of Mannheim. For his music documentary film ?Culture Clan"Ali was nominated for the ?rose d`or 2005"at the Montreux film festival. Lost Children is his debut as author and director.


Filmography (as author & director)

2004
"Lost Children", documentary film together with Oliver Stoltz

2003
"Culture Clan", Musik - documentary film

2002
"Africa-mayibuye", documentary film

2000
"Black-Coloured-White", documentary film

1999
"Boot-Piepel", script for a feature film

1998
"Goodbye Matze", short film

1996
"Geburtstag mit der Omi", short film

Partners

  • Arterial network
  • Media, Sports and Entertainment Group (MSE)
  • Gens de la Caraïbe
  • Groupe 30 Afrique
  • Alliance Française VANUATU
  • PACIFIC ARTS ALLIANCE
  • FURTHER ARTS
  • Zimbabwe : Culture Fund Of Zimbabwe Trust
  • RDC : Groupe TACCEMS
  • Rwanda : Positive Production
  • Togo : Kadam Kadam
  • Niger : ONG Culture Art Humanité
  • Collectif 2004 Images
  • Africultures Burkina-Faso
  • Bénincultures / Editions Plurielles
  • Africiné
  • Afrilivres

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