Azhin Kawa
Directing
Biography
She was born in 1998 in Sulaymaniyah, she graduated from the Fine Arts College (filmmaking department) of Sulaymaniyah University. Since she was 12 years old, she was captivated with the photography field and she participated in several photography exhibitions. Then she inclined into the cinema field when she was 17 and She was able to make her first film also participated in many local and international film festivals and handled good results. Since the age of 18, she is working as Assistant Director with different production house companies as a freelancer. She directed three Short Films.
Known For
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
In August 2014 Isis attacks the city of Shingal and the villages surrounding it, while Haider and 21 members of his family are escaping the terrorists, something happens that drastically changes the course of their lives. in a double narrative fractured storyline, Haider must choose a path.
Paths
A man wants to go to Europe with his family, but his wife doesn't like the idea because of her old father. and is constantly struggling to convince her husband to back off from the trip.
Empty Home
People are gathered in a tea shop that no longer is able to serve tea as the country is blocked from importing tea. The coalition forces are bombarding all places. Lack of tea has given people headaches. At last, the representative of the coalition forces brings them an offer if they accept their requirements. This short film symbolically narrates the story of annexing Southern Kurdistan to Iraq in 1921.
Laughter & Forgetting
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.