Hassan Ali
Directing
Biography
Hassan Ali was born in 1968 in Erbil, Iraq, he is a writer, director, producer, and employee of the Ministry of Culture of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq in the cinema department. He first entered the arts as a painter and then, in 1991, continued his career as a theater artist. In 1998, he made his first short film, and in 2008, he became president of the Kurdistan Filmmakers Association. He has screened several commercial films in cinemas and has won several international awards in cinema. He is the owner of the TVC Cinema production company.
Known For
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
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 road movie set in Iraq in 2003 during the fall of Saddam. Two Kurds are looking for the parents of a five-year-old boy who has been found in the street in tears. His name is Saddam too. At the same time the boy's parents are looking for him everywhere, worried because of the boy's name which is now taboo. All the attempts of the two Kurds to get rid of the child fail: neither the Americans nor the men of religion at the mosque want him. Little Saddam begins to become a real problem. In the streets and all around them, they are surrounded by the chaos and crazy atmosphere of those days, with violence always on the verge of exploding.
Crossing the Dust
A Kurdish girl returns to Kurdistan from the United States. On this trip she goes to a village to the house of a friend of his father. Because of the different cultures of the United States and Kurdistan, the girl causes problems for the family.
Amricano
After the black crows attack his land, a rich landowner gathers the village children and turns them into Scarecrows
گەڕەکی داهۆڵان
It is the story of a foreign reporter who accompanies Kurdish rebels (Peshmerga) forces reporting on their national movement against the former dictatorship in Iraq. The government is informed about this and attacks the mountainous area to arrest her. What will the Peshmerga do?
Behind the Clouds: Salute to Peshmerga
The Daughter of the Haymaker is a real story when a British soldier who fell in love with a Kurdish girl and kidnapped her.