Fenar Ahmad

Fenar Ahmad (in Arabic فنار أحمد) is a Danish filmmaker of Iraqi origin. He was born in 1981 in Czechoslovakia to immigrant Iraqi parents. In 1986 the family immigrated to Denmark where he studied film in the alternative film school Super16.

Ahmad is best known for his award-winning 2010 short film Megaheavy co-written by Ahmad with Jacob Katz Hansen and directed by Ahmad. It won Robert Award for Best Short Fiction/Animation for 2010 during the 27th Robert Awards in Copenhagen on 7 February 2010.

In 2014, he directed the long feature film Flow (Ækte vare) starring Danish rapper Kian Rosenberg Larsson better known as Gilli.[1][2] The film was nominated for New Talent Grand PIX at the CPH PIX festival in 2014.[3] It was also nominated for the Best Children / Youth film and for Audience Award at the Robert Film Awards.[4][5] The soundtrack for the film with rap music by Gilli, MellemFingaMuzik, Murro, KESI, Højer Øye and S!vas charted peaking at number 8 on the Hitlisten, the official Danish Albums Chart.[6][7]

Filmography

Feature films
Short films (fiction)
Documentaries

Awards

For film Megaheavy
For film Ækte vare

References

External links

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