Talal Derki (

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: طلال ديركي ''Ṭālāl Dīrkī'') is a

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director, producer and screenwriter. Born in

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and of Kurdish descent, Derki studied film directing in Athens at , graduation in 2003. He worked as an assistant director for feature film productions and was a director for different Arab TV programs & TV films between 2009 and 2012. He worked as a freelance cameraman for

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. He was Oscar nominated in 2019 and became a member of the Academy. He is the winner of the German Film Awards, Lola, in 2019. Talal Derki's short films and feature-length documentaries received tens of awards at various festivals. Both of his films Return to Homs and Of Fathers and Sons won the Grand Jury Prize at

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2014 and 2018.

Filmography

* 2003 - ''Hello Damascus, goodbye Damascus'', short fiction, 16mm (12min) * 2005 - ''A whole line of trees'', short fiction, 35 mm (8min) * 2010 - ''Hero of All Seas'', documentary (28min) * 2013 - ''

Return to Homs ''The Return to Homs'' (; ) is a 2013 Syrian-German documentary film written and directed by Talal Derki. It is produced by Orwa Nyrabia and Hans Robert Eisenhauer while Diana El Jeiroudi served as the associate producer. The film premiered in-com ...

'', documentary (90min) * 2017 - ''

Of Fathers and Sons ''Of Fathers and Sons'' ( ''ʿan al-ʾābāʾ wal-ʾabnāʾ'') is a 2017 Arabic-language German-Syrian documentary film directed by Talal Derki about radical jihadism and terrorist training in Syria. Synopsis Under the guise of a photojournal ...

'', documentary (1h 39min) * 2018 - '' People of the Wasteland'', short experimental, producer (21min) * 2023 - '' Under the Sky of Damascus'', documentary (88min)

Awards & Nominations `Return To Homs´

References

External links

''Talal Derki''
at the Internet Movie Database {{DEFAULTSORT:Derki, Talal Syrian film directors 1977 births Living people Syrian Kurdish people