Nowhere to Hide: Filmmaker Bio

Zaradasht Ahmed is a Kurdish/Norwegian Filmmaker. He was born and raised in northern Iraq. His previous work includes the award-winning Road to Diyarbakir and Fata Morgana. His latest film Nowhere to Hide has won several prestigious international prizes including Best Feature Length Documentary at IDFA (2016), Best Documentary at the One World Human Rights Festival (2017), the Audience Award at Thessaloniki Film Festival (2017), the Nestor Almendros Prize for courage in filmmaking at the Human Rights Watch FF (New York 2017), the Citizen Journalists prize from Traverse City FF (2017) and the Norwegian AMANDA for Best Documentary (2017). Zaradasht has many years of experience working with documentary filmmaking in the Middle East, North Africa and Asian regions, as well as experience training local filmmakers.