"Crossing The Dust"

Shawkat Amin Korki

Director

• Born, 1973, in Zakho, Iraqi Kurdistan.

• 1975: Forced (by the Iraqi military) to flee to Iran together with his family.
  Stayed in Iran until 1999.

• Worked in theater, TV and cinema in Iran and Iraqi Kurdistan.

• Short films entered in many film festivals with some awards.

•  2002: Organized Erbil First Short Film Festival.

Short films

•  Balloons Fly (1997), Fiction, Betacam, 37 min.

• Trapdoor (1998), Fiction, Betacam, 43 min, voted Second Best Film (diploma)
  at Ramsar TV Festival (1999), Iran.

• When it rains (2000), Fiction, Betacam, 29 min, Rio de Janeiro & Kurdistan Film Festivals (2003), London Film Festival (2004).

• Passage (2002), Fiction, Betacam, 18 min, took prize for Best Director at the Iraq’s first Film Festival, Baghdad (2005).

• Threat (2003), Fiction, Betacam, 23 min, Best Short Film the First Film Festival of Iraq, Baghdad (2005) & awarded an honor diploma, Kurdish Film Festival, Sulymaniyah (2004), Hull Film Festival, 2005, UK.
   

Feature films

Crossing the Dust (2006), Fiction, 35mm, 74 min.