Directing

Samir Jamal Al Din

Born

1955-07-29 (71)

Place of birth

Baghdad, Iraq

Known for

Directing

Credits

44 titles

Known for

Film credits

Series credits

Behind the camera

White Terror poster
7.0

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.

White Terror

2005

Angelique poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Angelique

1997

Filou poster
NR

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.

Filou

1988

Morlove - Eine Ode für Heisenberg poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Morlove - Eine Ode für Heisenberg

1986

Morlove - Eine Ode für Heisenberg poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Morlove - Eine Ode für Heisenberg

1986

Baghdad in My Shadow poster
6.0

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...

Baghdad in My Shadow

2019

Baghdad in My Shadow poster
6.0

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...

Baghdad in My Shadow

2019

Skinhead Attitude poster
7.3

Outlines the history of 40 years of the skinhead subculture, beginning with the most recent versions of the culture.

Skinhead Attitude

2003

Babylon 2 poster
9.0

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 Hispanic origins fights for his political rights and the director reminisces on how, despite his Arabic roots, he's been persecuted as a Jew. Babylon 2 reflects the rise of a new urban culture in Switzerland, which is instigated by the second generation of immigrants and the help of electronic media.

Babylon 2

1993

Babylon 2 poster
9.0

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 Hispanic origins fights for his political rights and the director reminisces on how, despite his Arabic roots, he's been persecuted as a Jew. Babylon 2 reflects the rise of a new urban culture in Switzerland, which is instigated by the second generation of immigrants and the help of electronic media.

Babylon 2

1993

The Giacomettis poster
8.5

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 valley the birthplace of so many artists?

The Giacomettis

2023

Do It poster
7.0

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

Do It

2000

Solidarity poster
NR

Solidarity is an irresistible feeling we celebrate, but in fact, it is mostly contradictory. This documentary delves into the phenomenon itself and uncovers the universal power of human rights.

Solidarity

2025

Offshore: Elmer and the Swiss Bank Secrecy poster
NR

While managers of Swiss banks in the USA ruefully apologize for their tax evasions practices and customer data is disclosed to the American authorities, Rudolf Elmer, former auditor at bank Julius Bär, is indicted for violating the Swiss banking secrecy law on the Cayman Islands. Rudolf Elmer: from insider to critic.

Offshore: Elmer and the Swiss Bank Secrecy

2016

Stummfilm poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Stummfilm

1984

Stummfilm poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Stummfilm

1984

Stummfilm poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Stummfilm

1984

Hirschfeld – The Unknown Known poster
NR

The reputation of Zurich's Schauspielhaus theater is based on figures such as Bertolt Brecht and Therese Giese, who turned it into a bastion of cultural resistance during the Nazi era. After the war, the global successes of Max Frisch and Friedrich Dürrenmatt consolidated this reputation. But the architect of this glory has been forgotten: Kurt Hirschfeld.

Hirschfeld – The Unknown Known

2026

Hirschfeld – The Unknown Known poster
NR

The reputation of Zurich's Schauspielhaus theater is based on figures such as Bertolt Brecht and Therese Giese, who turned it into a bastion of cultural resistance during the Nazi era. After the war, the global successes of Max Frisch and Friedrich Dürrenmatt consolidated this reputation. But the architect of this glory has been forgotten: Kurt Hirschfeld.

Hirschfeld – The Unknown Known

2026

Hirschfeld – The Unknown Known poster
NR

The reputation of Zurich's Schauspielhaus theater is based on figures such as Bertolt Brecht and Therese Giese, who turned it into a bastion of cultural resistance during the Nazi era. After the war, the global successes of Max Frisch and Friedrich Dürrenmatt consolidated this reputation. But the architect of this glory has been forgotten: Kurt Hirschfeld.

Hirschfeld – The Unknown Known

2026

Fraulein poster
5.5

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 two strong willed women.

Fraulein

2006

The Miraculous Transformation of the Working Class Into Foreigners poster
3.5

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 immigrant child from a former working class stronghold.

The Miraculous Transformation of the Working Class Into Foreigners

2024

The Miraculous Transformation of the Working Class Into Foreigners poster
3.5

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 immigrant child from a former working class stronghold.

The Miraculous Transformation of the Working Class Into Foreigners

2024

Once I Entered in a Garden poster
6.0

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

Once I Entered in a Garden

2013

Projecziuns Tibetanas poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Projecziuns Tibetanas

1998

Projecziuns Tibetanas poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Projecziuns Tibetanas

1998

Norman Plays Golf poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Norman Plays Golf

2000

Norman Plays Golf poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Norman Plays Golf

2000

The Little Girl poster
8.0

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.

The Little Girl

1997

The Little Girl poster
8.0

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.

The Little Girl

1997

Schiefkörper poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Schiefkörper

1984

Snow White poster
5.8

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 and infinite self-confidence, she tries to adopt his lifestyle - without anticipating the consequences.

Snow White

2005

Forget Baghdad: Jews and Arabs - The Iraqi Connection poster
8.5

A documentary film about the Mizrahim, or Jewish community of Iraq.

Forget Baghdad: Jews and Arabs - The Iraqi Connection

2002

Forget Baghdad: Jews and Arabs - The Iraqi Connection poster
8.5

A documentary film about the Mizrahim, or Jewish community of Iraq.

Forget Baghdad: Jews and Arabs - The Iraqi Connection

2002

Forget Baghdad: Jews and Arabs - The Iraqi Connection poster
8.5

A documentary film about the Mizrahim, or Jewish community of Iraq.

Forget Baghdad: Jews and Arabs - The Iraqi Connection

2002

No artwork available
7.0

Thousands of migrants who, by dint of rubber boats, illegally cross the straits between Morocco and Spain, change a landscape and its inhabitants.

Tarifa Traffic: Death in the Straits of Gibraltar

2003

Hiphop poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Hiphop

1991

(It Was) Just a Job poster
NR

Right after the first Iraq war, the filmmaker visits his family in Iraq. He tries to reconstruct the war from different points of view, all depicted on the same screen at the same time: U.S. airplanes dropping bombs, his parents fixated on the television, and the family welcoming him back.

(It Was) Just a Job

1992

(It Was) Just a Job poster
NR

Right after the first Iraq war, the filmmaker visits his family in Iraq. He tries to reconstruct the war from different points of view, all depicted on the same screen at the same time: U.S. airplanes dropping bombs, his parents fixated on the television, and the family welcoming him back.

(It Was) Just a Job

1992

Chris the Swiss poster
6.5

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.

Chris the Swiss

2018