Kae Bahar

Kae Bahar

Born: October 17, 1960
in Kirkuk, Kurdistan, Iraq
Award-winning writer & director, Kae Bahar has produced documentaries for Channel 4, BBC, and Al Jazeera. I Am Sami, Kae's debut in narrative films screened in over 150 International film festivals, winning 57 awards. He is developing his feature films; American Gambit and Blindfold Shoes, awarded "Excellent Scripts" by Filmarket Hub, and Dolphins In The Sky.

Movies for Kae Bahar...

Baghdad in My Shadow
Title: Baghdad in My Shadow
Character: Zeki
Released: November 28, 2019
Type: Movie
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 adversity threatens...
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No Friends But the Mountains
Title: No Friends But the Mountains
Released: July 25, 2017
Type: Movie
Will the Kurdish dream of independence and freedom ever become reality?With the rise of ISIS and the central role played by the Kurdish Peshmerga in the fight against them, the question of Kurdish independence has taken on greater urgency. To answer this pressing question, Kurdish author Kae Bahar travels from his London home to his rocky and mountainous homeland, finding a complex mix of Kurdish nationalism and internal division. ‘War or Peace?’ Bahar asks. The answer is not so simple.
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Triage
Title: Triage
Character: Wounded Man
Released: November 13, 2009
Type: Movie
The wife of a photojournalist sets out to discover why he came home from a recent assignment without his colleague.
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Welcome
Title: Welcome
Character: Azad
Released: March 11, 2009
Type: Movie
Bilal is 17 years old, a Kurdish boy from Iraq. He sets off on an adventure-filled journey across Europe. He wants to get to England to see his love who lives there. Bilal finally reaches Calais, but how do you cover 32 kilometers of the English Channel when you can't swim? The boy soon discovers that his trip won't be as easy as he imagined... The community of struggling illegal aliens in Calais
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Return to Kirkuk: A Year in the Fire
Title: Return to Kirkuk: A Year in the Fire
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 2006
Type: Movie
It was 30 years ago that 14-year-old Karzan Sherabayani was arrested and tortured by Saddam Hussein's secret police, his only crime being that he was a Kurd. After 25 years in exile, Karzan, now a British citizen, has returned to his childhood home to vote in Iraq's first democratic election. Having been banished for so long, Karzan now asks the people of Kirkuk if they accept the path promoted by the West...a path that will inevitably lead to a divided Iraq or a bloody civil war. In this incredible documentary, Karzan exposes a city that sits on one of the world's largest oil deposits as a place where old ethnic and sectarian divisions are still rife. Kirkuk, he says, is a microcosm of the new Iraq. During the year it took to make the program, Karzan confronted old demons from his past and met with the heroes and villains who are fashioning the country's dangerous and uncertain future
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Brothers
Title: Brothers
Character: Makmuhd
Released: August 27, 2004
Type: Movie
A Danish officer, Michael, is sent away to the International Security Assistance Force operation in Afghanistan for three months. His first mission there is to find a young radar technician who had been separated from his squad some days earlier. While on the search, his helicopter is shot down and he is taken as a prisoner of war, but is reported dead to the family.
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Title: Spooks
Character: Serka
Released: May 13, 2002
Type: TV
Tense drama series about the different challenges faced by the British Security Service as they work against the clock to safeguard the nation. The title is a popular colloquialism for spies, and the series follows the work of a group of MI5 officers based at the service's Thames House headquarters, in a highly secure suite of offices known as The Grid.