Kamar Ahmad Simon

Kamar came to discussion with his award-winning epic debut 'Are You Listening!', the curtain-openner of LOCARNO Open Doors Screening and Dok-Leipzig in Germany, awarded Grand Prix in Cinema Du Reel in Pompidou Centre in Paris and Golden Conch in Mumbai International Film Festival.  More than an ARCHITECT, WRITER, CINEMATOGRAPHER or an award winning FILMMAKER, Kamar is a critical realist, an ARTIST deeply obsessed making films searching dialogue between function of society, discrete narratives and the space in between. 

Auteur du jour from Bangladesh, Kamar was featured and awarded as the Red Carpet Director of Piazza Grande at LOCARNO for ‘Day after…’ and invited to La Atelier Cinfedonation of CANNES for the same. BERLINALE awarded World Cinema Fund (WCF) to Kamar for ‘Iron Stream’. ARTE has acquired rights to Kamar's work for it’s showcase programme LA LUCARNE. Broadcasting giants like NHK, KBS, PTS and Mediacorp has co-produced projects of Kamar.