Movies: Samir Jamal Al Din
- 2019

Baghdad in My Shadow (2019)
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A wide variety of Iraqis in exile meet at Café Abu Nawas in London, including the architect Amal, the poet Taufiq and the gay IT specialist Muhannad. They all want to finally feel free in London - something that was denied them in their homeland. But...
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- 2015

Dawn (2015)
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The story is set in Palestine in 1947, during the British mandate period. The Zionists are fighting for the establishment of a Jewish state, and four comrades in arms pressure the young Elisha to overcome his moral qualms and fully commit to the arme...
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- 2006

Fraulein (2006)
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Ruža left Serbia, her country, over 30 years ago and lives in Zurich. Her daily life is a string of repetitive moments until, one day, Ana arrives on the scene and upsets Ruža's painstakingly organized world. A subtle friendship develops between the ...
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- 1998

Die Metzger (1998)
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- 1999

ID Swiss (1999)
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Documentary in 7 segments whose theme is "Multicultural Switzerland". The segments are: "Raclette Curry", "Was Wie Wann Wohin Gehört", "Home Alone?", "Hopp Schwyz", "Mixed Up", "Making of a Jew" and "Train Fantôme"....
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- 2014

Iraqi Odyssey (2014)
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Tracing the emigrations of his family over more than half a century, this riveting documentary epic from acclaimed expatriate Iraqi filmmaker Samir pays moving homage to the frustrated democratic dreams of a people successively plagued by the horrors...
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- 2005

Snow White (2005)
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The life of 20-year-old Nico from upper class Zurich is all party, sex and drugs when she meets Paco, the front man of a rap band. She finds herself drawn to his independent, creative and profound way of life, so different from her own. With naiveté ...
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- 2002

Birdseye (2002)
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A Colorado sheriff and his teenage son investigate a bizarre kidnapping, ultimately leading them on the hunt for a legendary Swiss criminal....
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- 2018

Chris the Swiss (2018)
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Croatia, 7th of January 1992: In the middle of the war, a young journalist's body is discovered dressed in the uniform of an international mercenary group. Twenty years later, his cousin Anja Kofmel investigates his story....
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- 2005

White Terror (2005)
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A video about Neo-Nazis originating in Sweden provides the starting point of an investigation of extremists' networks in Europe, Russia, and North America. Their propaganda is a message of hatred, war, and segregation....
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- 2023

The Giacomettis (2023)
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The rugged Swiss mountain valley of Bregaglia has produced an entire dynasty of artists: the Giacomettis. Alberto revolutionised the art world with his slender sculptures. Before him, his father was an Impressionist of the first hour. What makes this...
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- 2003

Skinhead Attitude (2003)
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Outlines the history of 40 years of the skinhead subculture, beginning with the most recent versions of the culture....
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- 2002

Forget Baghdad: Jews and Arabs - The Iraqi Connection (2002)
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A documentary film about the Mizrahim, or Jewish community of Iraq....
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- 1993

Babylon 2 (1993)
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The first film about second-generation Swiss immigrants: A Turkish ice hockey player explains why, in Switzerland, he could only fall in love with an Italian. A young Italian woman explains why she prefers to rap in English. A hip-hop artist with His...
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- 2000

Do It (2000)
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Odyssey of the fortune-teller Daniele von Arb who, aged sixteen, joined the revolutionary underground and made the headlines as a top Swiss terrorist....
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- 2013

Once I Entered in a Garden (2013)
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Fantasizes an 'Old' Middle East, wherein communities were not divided along ethnic and religious lines; a Middle East in which even metaphorical borders had no place...
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- 1988

Filou (1988)
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Max is unemployed. He shares an apartment with a prostitute, who dreams of another life, and Jiri, a refugee who believes the world is doomed. Max is certain that one day he will find the deal that will make him rich....
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- 2003

Tarifa Traffic: Death in the Straits of Gibraltar (2003)
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Thousands of migrants who, by dint of rubber boats, illegally cross the straits between Morocco and Spain, change a landscape and its inhabitants....
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- 2024

The Miraculous Transformation of the Working Class Into Foreigners (2024)
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For more than one hundred years, the Swiss Social Democratic Party and the trade unions shaped Swiss working-class culture. In the seventies, this culture completely collapsed. The working class of yesteryear are called foreigners. An essay by an imm...
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- 1997

The Little Girl (1997)
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A little girl looking for directions meets the wolf, the bull and the great woman on the mountain. A short film specially commissioned to celebrate the centenary of cinema....
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