Films by Samir

Germany, Switzerland, Finland 2018, 90 min
by Anja Kofmel

Croatia, January 1992. In the midst of the Yugoslav Wars, Chris, a young Swiss journalist is found dead in mysterious circumstances. He was wearing the uniform of an international mercenary group. Anja Kofmel was his cousin. As a little girl, she used to admire this handsome young man; now a grown-up woman, she decides to investigate his story, trying to understand what really was the involvement of Chris in the conflict…With: Megan Gay, Joel Basman, Michael Würtenberg, Veronika Schwab, Carlos I

Germany, Switzerland 2014, 163 min
by Samir

Four million Iraqis are part of a worldwide diaspora today, and in Iraqi Odyssey the viewer has an insider’s chance to meet some of them. Fans of the award-winning Forget Baghdad, the prophetic documentary that Swiss-based Samir directed in 2002 just before the US invasion toppled the dictator and the Ba’athist regime, will appreciate the insight he brings to this personally tinged story of his own family. Delicately and perceptively, he sheds light on how recent Iraqi history has affected the m