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Film director
Country of origin
Switzerland

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

Current issues

Faith in Film Award in Tromsø 2025
An interfaith film jury, including an INTERFILM representative for the first time, awarded the Faith in Film Award 2025 to François Ozon's "When Fall Is Coming".
"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

16.02.2025
Haus der EKD, Charlottenstraße 53/54, 10117 Berlin
Ecumenical Reception at the Berlinale
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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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