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Kae Bahar
Born October 17, 1960 · Kirkuk, Kurdistan, Iraq (age 65)
Award-winning writer & director, Kae Bahar has produced documentaries for Channel 4, BBC, and Al Jazeera. I Am Sami, Kae's debut in narrative films screened in over 150 International film festivals, winning 57 awards. He is developing his feature films; American Gambit and Blindfold Shoes, awarded "Excellent Scripts" by Filmarket Hub, and Dolphins In The Sky.
Known For
Triage · 2009Triage
★ 6.02009
MovieDramaThriller
The wife of a photojournalist sets out to discover why he came home from a recent assignment without his colleague.
Brothers · 2004Brothers
★ 6.82004
MovieDramaWar
A Danish officer, Michael, is sent away to the International Security Assistance Force operation in Afghanistan for three months. His first mission there is to find a young radar technician who had been separated from his squad some days earlier. While on the search, his helicopter is shot down and he is taken as a prisoner of war, but is reported dead to the family.
Welcome · 2009Welcome
★ 7.22009
MovieDramaRomance
Bilal is 17 years old, a Kurdish boy from Iraq. He sets off on an adventure-filled journey across Europe. He wants to get to England to see his love who lives there. Bilal finally reaches Calais, but how do you cover 32 kilometers of the English Channel when you can't swim? The boy soon discovers that his trip won't be as easy as he imagined... The community of struggling illegal aliens in Calais
I am Sami · 2014I am Sami
★ 1.02014
MovieDrama
Living in a war zone, 10-year-old Sami is forced to make decisions beyond his understanding; decisions that could deprive him of his childhood and change his life forever.
Baghdad in My Shadow · 2019Baghdad in My Shadow
★ 6.02019
MovieThrillerDrama
A wide variety of Iraqis in exile meet at Café Abu Nawas in London, including the architect Amal, the poet Taufiq and the gay IT specialist Muhannad. They all want to finally feel free in London - something that was denied them in their homeland. But adversity threatens...
Where Was I? · 2022Where Was I?
2022
MovieDrama
A young poet finds himself at rock bottom with nothing left to lose, he is given two choices to change his life.
No Friends But the Mountains · 2017No Friends But the Mountains
★ 7.02017
MovieDocumentary
Will the Kurdish dream of independence and freedom ever become reality?With the rise of ISIS and the central role played by the Kurdish Peshmerga in the fight against them, the question of Kurdish independence has taken on greater urgency. To answer this pressing question, Kurdish author Kae Bahar travels from his London home to his rocky and mountainous homeland, finding a complex mix of Kurdish nationalism and internal division. ‘War or Peace?’ Bahar asks. The answer is not so simple.
A Kurdish MovieA Kurdish Movie
★ 9.0
MovieDocumentary
A quirky motorcycle adventure in Iraqi Kurdistan with the 'Long Way Round' cameraman Claudio von Planta and his fellow biker friend Billy Ward (Biketruck) and supported by the Kurdish filmmakers Kae Bahar and Miran Dizayee.
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