Abbas Fahdel
Profile info
Known forDirecting
GenderMale
Place of birthIraq
Known credits9
Biography
Abbas Fadhel (Arabic: عباس فاضل) is an Iraqi-French film director, screenwriter and film critic, born in Babylon, Iraq. Most known for his 2015 film Homeland: Iraq Year Zero. Based in France since the age of 18 years, he studied cinema at the Sorbonne University until Ph.D. In January 2002, he returned to Iraq with a French passport and filmed a documentary film, Back to Babylon, in which he asked himself: "What have my childhood friends become? How have their lives changed? What would my life have been like if I hadn't chosen to build my destiny elsewhere?" The country's dramatic situation i…
Tales of the Wounded Land
2025 · Director
Tales of the Wounded Land
2025 · Editor
Tales of the Wounded Land
2025 · Director of Photography
Tales of the Purple House
2022 · Director
نعيم وحليمة
2020 · Author
Bitter Bread
2019 · Director
Bitter Bread
2019 · Director of Photography
Bitter Bread
2019 · Producer
Bitter Bread
2019 · Editor
Yara
2018 · Director
Yara
2018 · Director of Photography
Yara
2018 · Editor
Yara
2018 · Writer
Yara
2018 · Producer
Homeland: Iraq Year Zero
2016 · Director
Homeland: Iraq Year Zero
2016 · Editor
Homeland: Iraq Year Zero
2016 · Director of Photography
Homeland: Iraq Year Zero
2016 · Producer
Dawn of the World
2009 · Director
Dawn of the World
2009 · Writer
We Iraqis
2004 · Director
We Iraqis
2004 · Writer
Back to Babylon
2002
Back to Babylon
2002 · Director
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