Biography

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.
- IMDb mini biography by: Layth Abdulamir

In 2019 he defended his dissertation at the Rylsky National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Thesis: Characteristics of "Extreme Documentary Films Direction". He received his PHD degree in Cinematic Critic. In 2021 Layth Abdulamir''s book "Extreme cinema, transcending the borders of aesthetics" was published by Aweigh. Editions in Cairo. The book explores the use of extremes in world cinema, the origins and philosophy as well as aesthetic and political ties.
- IMDb mini biography by: Layth abdulamir