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Kurdwin Ayub (born 1990) is an Iraqi-Austrian filmmaker. Her feature film debut Sonne (Sun) was awarded the Best First Film Award at the 2022 Berlin International Film Festival.
Early life and education
Ayub was born in Iraq; her family came to Austria as refugees when she was a child. She was educated in Vienna, studying painting and animation at the University of Applied Arts and studying performance art at the city's Academy of Fine Arts.
Career
Ayub began directing short films in 2009 and was awarded the MehrWERT Short Film Award at the Vienna International Film Festival in 2011 and 2012.
Paradies! Paradies! (Paradise! Paradise!), Ayub's feature-length directorial debut, followed her father Omar as he visited Kurdish relatives in Duhok after fleeing the city in 1991. The documentary screened at the 2016 Diagonale Film Festival, where Ayub was awarded the Best Camera prize. Her 2018 short film Boomerang was awarded the Jury Prize for Best Short Film at the Max Ophüls Film Festival in 2019.
In 2022, Ayub's full-length fiction debut Sonne (Sun), about three girls who film a music video while wearing burqas, received the Best First Film Award at the 72nd Berlin International Film Festival. The film was nominated for the European Discovery of the Year at the 35th European Film Awards.
Mond (Moon), Ayub's 2024 fiction feature about a former martial artist traveling to Jordan to train the daughters of a wealthy family, premiered at the 77th Locarno Film Festival in competition for the Golden Leopard. The film received the Special Jury Award as well as the Europe Cinemas Label prize, and a special mention from the Ecumenical jury.
Filmography
= Feature films
== Short films
=Awards and nominations
References
External links
Kurdwin Ayub at IMDb
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Kurdwin Ayub
- 37th European Film Awards
- 77th Locarno Film Festival
- 55th International Film Festival of India
- Sparta (film)
- 69th Valladolid International Film Festival
- 72nd Berlin International Film Festival
- Eurovision Song Contest 2022
- List of Austrian films of the 2020s
- Austria in the Eurovision Song Contest
