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Film director
Country of origin
Schweiz

Born in Baghdad. Aida Schläpfer Al Hassani is founder and president of the association "International Arab Film Festival Zurich" and co-director of the festival. She studied art and media design and Zurich, then film directing at the Academy of the Arts in Cairo. She directed a number of documentaries, the latest about Christian minorities in Iraq. 2013 she played the woman lead in the Iraqi fiction film "Al Haj Nejim" by Amer Alwan. 

Festivals

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Faith and Reflection at the 2024 Adelaide Film Festival
"Look at Me..." Award 2024
At the Oulu's Children's and Youth International Film Festival 2024 the Church Media Foundation presented its "Look at Me..." Award to Nellie Rajala for her film "The Elf Ring".

Events

11.10.2023
Café of the Propsteikirche Leipzig, Nonnenmühlgasse 2
Get Together - Meeting with the 8th Interreligious Jury at DOK Leipzig 2023
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26.04.2023
Budapest
In Uncertain Times
In Budapest at the end of April 2023 INTERFILM is organising a seminar on the history of Hungarian film and the current situation in Central and Eastern Europe.
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