Baghdad Messi
WINTER FILM AWARDS 2014 WINNER - BEST SHORT FILM, NOMINEE - BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
2013
United Arab Emirates
17 mins
Arabic
Short Film Competition
| Sahim Omar Kalifa | |
| Sahim Omar Kalifa | |
| Ali Raad Al-Zaidawy, Hayder Helo, Noor Al-Hooda |
Iraq, 2009. Little Hamoudi (10) is totally obsessed with football. Just as the rest of the world, he and his friends are eagerly looking forward to the Champions League finale FC Barcelona-Manchester United. The long awaited clash between Messi and Ronaldo. But then Hamoudi’s television breaks down…
About the Director
Sahim Omar Kalifa is born in 1980 in Kurdistan-Iraq. He came to Belgium in 2001. In 2008 he got a Master degree as film director. With his last two short movies Land of the heroes and Baghdad Messi he received 50 international Awards and was selected for more than 200 international film festivals.
Awards
2013 Gulf Film Festival Dubai 2013, UAE – Best Film
2013 IKL, Leuven, Belgium – Honorable Mention
2013 Brescello International Film Festival, Italy – Grand Prize ‘Best Film’
2013 6th Asian-Moroccan Festival of Short Films, Tissa, Morocco –
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