
Shwan Attoof
Acting
Biography
Shwan Attoof is an actor and director, known for My Father's Garden (2015), The Heart Sculpture (2019) and Home & Key (2014). He has been married to Tavga Muhammad Amin since March 20, 1997.
Known For

The movie follows Kurdistan during the Covid-19 crisis in 2019, and how it ruined relationships between loved ones.
Love in the Time of Corona
Gardalul's drama was one of the most watched dramas in the Kurdistan Region, directed by artist Jalil Zangan and produced in three parts.
Gardalul

Inside a beat up stadium in Kirkuk, Iraq, live many refugees trying to escape Sadam Hussein's administration. Asu lives with his younger brother who has lost his legs from a landmine. Next door lives Hilin, who has not been able to express her feelings. One of the only sources of happiness for these people who live amid fear of poverty and bombings is soccer. Asu gathers together the Kurdish, Arabs and Turkish in order to hold a soccer match. Although they are of different races, they become close neighbors.
Kick Off

Rojin is a young Kurdish woman about to take the university entrance exam. Rojin's unhappily married older sister Shilan decides to help her pass at any cost, hoping to give her a more emancipated life. Thus, the sisters inevitably become entangled in a huge network of corruption that connects all parts of society.
The Exam

Three Kurdish immigrants arrive in the UK, as illegal aliens to seek asylum. Finding they now belong to London's underground.
Leave To Stay

Reza is a freelance journalist who accidentally finds clues from Hiwa, an Iraqi soldier who saved Reza years ago in the harsh conditions of war. He leaves for Iraq to answer the issues he has been hiding from those around him for years.
Lovers Die Standing

Bemo, a 40-year-old married actor, embarks on a difficult journey as his battle with alcohol jeopardizes his thriving career and reputation. His marriage teeters on the brink of divorce as his wife grapples with his relentless addiction.
Aluda

in 1988 Saddam attacks Halabja, a city in Iraqi Kurdistan. After the chemical bombardment of Halabja, an Iranian war photographer is the first man to enter the city. There he meets a woman and a tale of love begins.
A Tale of Love

The story of this film is an aesthetic narration of the death of a Kurdish Family, along the 20th century.
Home & Key

A boy from Kurdistan living in France comes back to visit his childhood village, there to meet a girl studying the French language at the University of Salahadin, the cultural conflict, a young innocent romance, leads to loads of problems.
Shirin

A detective abandoned his daughter right after his wife's death for a governmental mission. This made her daughter angry. He risks his life to find his daughters missing best friend in order to fix their relationship. Their search leads them to face a deadly organ trafficking band who has blackmailed a doctor for harvesting the organs.
Zero Nine

Ali has been brought up in Iran and after his mother's death, He finds out that his true family lives in Kurdistan, Iraq. They have been parted because of the Halabja chemical attack in 1988. The movie portrays the torment and suffering families faced, due to the regime of Baaths in Iraq and particularly Kurdistan.
Burned Nests

A deminer in the war against Daesh, a Kurdish fighter loses his hand in an accident. He became a taxi driver but, not having a driving license for the disabled, the police seized his vehicle. Under pressure from his wife who wants him to go to Europe, the man is ready for anything...
Dirty Lands

Iraq now has become a place for explosion by some people. in this place, you have to live with stress.
Dalia

Due to the ISIS war, Kani (a pregnant singer) and her husband decide to leave Kurdistan. After meeting with a Turkish smuggler, they have no choice but to make the arduous journey inside an emptied, claustrophobic oil tanker across the Turkish border, stuck with a group of people who are also running for their lives.
Landless

A love story between a poor boy and a rich girl.
The Heart Sculpture

The film begins in 1980, the beginning of Saddam Hussein's presidency, and continues until 2003, the fall of his government.
Barber and the World

Hanar lost her virginity while playing when she was a child. the problem starts on the first night of her marriage with Swara.
Blood of Pomegranate

The hardships a group of Kurdish immigrants face when they try to cross the Aegean Sea and eventually find a better life in Europe.
Whirlpool

A young Kurdish mujahid, regrets his decision to join the jihadist movement. He is torn between his father's expectations and the mujahideen leader and ends up a victim of his own internal turmoil.