Omer Chawshin
Know for: Acting
Born: 1942-06-16
Place of birth: Sulaymaniyah, Kurdistan region, Iraq
Also know as:
Before Snowfall (2013)
Before Snowfall starts with a dramatic escape: Eighteen year-old Nermin runs away from her wedding in a village in Iraqi Kurdistan. Being the elder...
Kick Off Kirkuk (2009)
Inside a beat up stadium in Kirkuk, Iraq, live many refugees trying to escape Sadam Hussein's administration. Asu lives with his younger brother who...
Life (2001)
"Jiyan" takes place in Halabja about five years after Saddam's infamous chemical attack in 1988. Diyari (Kurdo Galali) has come from his new...
Death Triangle (2012)
To escape to the European paradise, the only way is a tunnel that is hidden. A 70 years old Christian man (Uncle Zuheir) lives among the Muslims, his...
Mardan (2014)
A police officer finds himself haunted by a traumatic childhood memory as he searches for a missing man in the rugged mountains of Iraqi Kurdistan,...
Whisper with the Wind (2009)
An elderly radio-operator travels across Kurdistan in the war-torn 80s assuring communication between lost families.
Dol: The Valley of Tambourines (2007)
On his wedding day, a Kurdish man must flee through Turkish, then Iraqi and eventually Iranian Kurdistan.
The Woman of My Life (2015)
Six year old Azad (a Kurd from Iraq) was engaged to his cousin Vian but after that the two kids were separated due to the political situation. At 19,...
The General Inspector (1971)
When the governor hears that a general inspector has come to town, fearing that he'll uncover his corruption, he and his government officials panic....