Layth Abdulamir

Layth Abdulamir is an Iraqi-French filmmaker born on October 24, 1957, in Iraq. Since 1994, he has made several films for various TV channels in France and the United Arab Emirates. He left Iraq in 1977 to study film at the Sorbonne in Paris, moved to the Soviet Union in 1980, and obtained his MA Degree in 1985 (majoring in film) at the Kiev National I. K. Karpenko-Kary Theatre, Cinema and Television University, where he is in the final stages of finishing his doctorate. He has won a number of International awards for his films. He made the films: "The Cradle" (1985) in the ex-USSR; "Yemen, A Time for the Sacred" (1994), a French-Belgian co-production; "Iraq, The Song of the Missing Men" (2005), an ethnological reading of post-occupation realities in Iraq; "The Executioner's Tear" (2013) a condemnation of barbarian executions that was co-produced by France 3 and Orok Films.