Hisham Zaman (born 1 February 1975) is a Norwegian film director and screenwriter of Kurdish origin.[1] He graduated from the Norwegian Film School at Lillehammer in 2004. His films center on the stories and inner dilemmas of characters united by a common refugee experience, exploring human themes such as love, acceptance, sacrifice, revenge, loyalty and honour. He has co-written several of his scripts with the Norwegian crime novelist Kjell Ola Dahl.[2]
Zaman's breakthrough film, Bawke, won more than 40 national and international awards.[3] He is also a two-time winner of the Dragon Award for Best Nordic Film, the only filmmaker to have been awarded this distinction two years in a row.[4]
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- ^ "Award winning director returns to Duhok Film Festival with a new film". WAARmedia. 2015-09-04. Retrieved 2020-08-11.