Hakar Abdulqader
- Director
Hakar Abdulqader is a Kurdish award winning documentary film director, writer and Editor. He was born on 1980 in Duhok city, Kurdistan region of Iraq. His involvement and passion in documentary films started in 2000. He has worked as an editor for 10 years in many short films, documentary films and TV series. But his personal life experiences kept him close to documentary films and realistic cinema. Therefore, he developed his filmmaking knowledge by participating in several international documentary filmmaking workshops. In 2011, he directed his first award winning documentary "Gypsies of March". Also, He has contributed with several award winning fiction films such as "Herman" and "The Dark Wind" by Hussein Hassan which are films portrait life and sufferance of people in war zones and their struggle for a peaceful life, which also portraits the life of Hakar himself. His latest work is his documentary "Havibon" which is an award winner in "Final Cut Workshop" in Venice International Film Festival.