Fenar Ahmad (in

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فنار أحمد) is a Danish filmmaker of Iraqi origin. He was born in 1981 in

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to immigrant Iraqi parents. In 1986 the family emigrated to Denmark. There he studied film in the alternative film school

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. Ahmad is known for the award-winning 2010 short film ''

Megaheavy ''Megaheavy'' is a 19-minute Danish youth short film produced in 2010 by Shouting Cow Productions. It is written by Jacob Katz Hansen and Fenar Ahmad and directed by the latter and starring Eva Thompson in the role of Jolly, Jonatan Tulested as Ke ...

'', co-written by Ahmad and 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, Ahmad directed the long feature film '' Flow'' (also known by the Danish title ''Ækte vare'') starring Danish rapper Kian Rosenberg Larsson, better known as Gilli. The film was nominated for New Talent Grand PIX at the CPH PIX festival in 2014. It was also nominated for the Best Children / Youth film and for Audience Award at the Robert Film Awards.IMDb awards page – Fenar Ahmad
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, Murro, KESI, Højer Øye and S!vas charted peaking at number 8 on the Hitlisten, the official Danish Albums Chart. In 2017 his second feature Darkland (''Underverden'') premiered and topped the Danish Box Office reaching over 180,000 admissions. The film stars Dar Salim as a doctor, who gives up his privileged lifestyle and sets out on a mission through Copenhagen's criminal underworld, to avenge his younger brother's death. The film also stars

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, Dulfi Al-Jabouri and B. Branco from

. Jens Ole Wowk McCoy from the Danish group

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did the score which was released following the Danish release. The film has been sold to multiple territories internationally.

Filmography

;Feature films * 2014: '' Flow'' (''Ækte vare'') * 2017: '' Darkland'' (''Underverden'') * 2019: ''

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'' ;Short films (fiction) * 2007: ''Paragraf 15'' * 2008: ''Mesopotamia'' * 2009: ''

'' * 2010: ''Torshammer'' ;Documentaries * 2007: ''Nice to Meet You'' * 2009: ''Rejsecirkus'' * 2009: ''Den Perfekte Muslim'' * 2009: ''Climaniacs'' (anthology)

Awards

;For film ''Megaheavy'' * 2010: Won Robert Award for Best Short Fiction/Animation during 27th Robert Awards in Copenhagen * 2010: Won Grand Prix, National Competition,

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(2010) * 2010: Honorable Mention,

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* 2010: Special Mention,

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* 2010: Nominated for the Crystal Bear, Generation 14plus – Best Short Film,

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;For film '' Flow'' or ''Ækte vare'' * 2014: Nominated for New Talent Grand PIX at CPH PIX festival * 2015: Nominated for Best Children / Youth film, Robert Film Festival (shared with Morten Kjems Juhl and Nina Bisgaard (co-producers)) * 2015: Nominated for Audience Award, Robert Film Festival (shared with Morten Kjems Juhl and Nina Bisgaard (co-producers))

References

External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Ahmad, Fenar Danish film directors 1981 births Living people Danish people of Iraqi descent Danish people of Czech descent