Director: Kamar Ahmad Simon

Born in: Dhaka, Bangladesh
Biography: Kamar Ahmad Simon was born in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Considered as the auteur du jour in Bangladesh, Kamar was awarded and featured as the Red Carpet Director on the Piazza Grande, LOCARNO’s 8,000 seat open air theatre for his upcoming film ‘Day after…’ For the same he has been officially invited to CANNES in La Atelier Cinefondation, where only the organizers reserve the right to invite the very best of upcoming world cinema. BERLINALE awarded Kamar with World Cinema Fund (WCF) for his upcoming feature ‘Iron Stream’, a co-production with leading German Producer Weydemann Bros. that was one of the top ten producers according to Variety in Cannes 2019. For his upcoming feature ‘Iron Stream’, Kamar was selected as one of the ten invitées of La Fabrique Cinéma du Monde in Cannes. SUNDANCE has awarded him grants, along-with IDFA-Bertha, Jan Vrijman Fund, Visions Sud Est, Sørfond and Göteborg Film Festival. Europe’s cultural channel ARTE has acquired rights to Kamar’s unpublished work for it’s showcase programme LA LUCARNE. Asian broadcasting giants like NHK (Japan), KBS (Korea), PTS (Taiwan) and Mediacorp (Singapore) have co-produced multiple projects of Kamar. For the love of cinema Kamar regularly contributes in publications, takes part in dialogues and has masterminded discourses where European art-house cinema icons like Claire Denis (France), Viktor Kossakovsky (Russia/ Germany) were invited in Bangladesh.