Directing
Samir Jamal Al Din
Born
1955-07-29 (71)
Place of birth
Baghdad, Iraq
Known for
Directing
Credits
44 titles
Known for
No synopsis available yet.
Der Club
1985
6.0No synopsis available yet.
Kulturplatz
2004
No synopsis available yet.
NeXt
1994
7.0A 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
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Angelique
1997
NRMax 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
Film credits
Series credits
Behind the camera
7.0A 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
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Angelique
1997
NRMax 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
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Morlove - Eine Ode für Heisenberg
1986
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Morlove - Eine Ode für Heisenberg
1986
6.0A 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
6.0A 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
7.3Outlines the history of 40 years of the skinhead subculture, beginning with the most recent versions of the culture.
Skinhead Attitude
2003
9.0The 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
9.0The 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
8.5The 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
7.0Odyssey 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
NRSolidarity 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
NRWhile 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
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Stummfilm
1984
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Stummfilm
1984
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Stummfilm
1984
NRThe 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
NRThe 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
NRThe 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
5.5Ruža 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
3.5For 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
3.5For 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
6.0Fantasizes 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
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Projecziuns Tibetanas
1998
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Projecziuns Tibetanas
1998
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Norman Plays Golf
2000
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Norman Plays Golf
2000
8.0A 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
8.0A 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
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Schiefkörper
1984
5.8The 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
8.5A documentary film about the Mizrahim, or Jewish community of Iraq.
Forget Baghdad: Jews and Arabs - The Iraqi Connection
2002
8.5A documentary film about the Mizrahim, or Jewish community of Iraq.
Forget Baghdad: Jews and Arabs - The Iraqi Connection
2002
8.5A documentary film about the Mizrahim, or Jewish community of Iraq.
Forget Baghdad: Jews and Arabs - The Iraqi Connection
2002
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
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Hiphop
1991
NRRight 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
NRRight 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
6.5Croatia, 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

