Kamar Ahmad Simon

A poet in private and an architect by training, Kamar Ahmad Simon is a new face from Asian Cinema. His deeply obsessed subaltern films and creative language bordering fiction and reality has been (...) reviewed by Screen Daily as “irresistibly immersive,” by Variety as, “conscientious,” while IDFA wrote it as “philosophical.” Featured as a red carpet director in Piazza Grande at Locarno, Kamar won many awards, including the Harrell Award at CIFF Camden, Grand Prix in Cinéma du réel Paris, and Golden Conch in MIFF Mumbai, Locarno Open Doors Award and Arte International Prix. Kamar has been awarded grants from Sundance, IDFA-Bertha, Movies that Matter and World Cinema Fund from Berlinale. Kamar served as a jury member at Sydney Film Festival; Bibliothèque nationale de France and Johns Hopkins University US acquired rights to his film; Museum of Moving Images New York, Royal Anthropological Institute London, Sorbonne University, Centre du Pompidui and Luxor Cinema Paris has exhibited his work.