Siddiq Barmak (Actor)

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Movies starring Siddiq Barmak have generally received positive reviews and hold an average score of 61%.

Act of Dishonour - released in 2010 - is Siddiq Barmak's highest rated movie, with a score of 61% based on 1 reviews.

The lowest rated film from Siddiq Barmak is Act of Dishonour - released in 2010 - with a score of 61% based on 1 reviews.

Actor Biography

Siddiq Barmak (Born September 7, 1962) in Panjshir, Afghanistan, is a film director and producer. He received an M.A degree in cinema direction from the Moscow Film Institute (VGIK) in 1987.

He has written a few screenplays and has made a few short films. His first feature film Osama, won the Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film in 2004.

There is a stylistic echo in Osama featured in Afghan films by the Iranian Makhmalbaf dynasty; father Mohsen's Kandahar, and daughter Samira Makhmalbaf's At Five in the Afternoon, the latter also shot in post-Taliban Kabul. Barmak directed Osama with significant funding and assistance from the elder Makhmalbaf. The Iranian director invested thousands of dollars in the film, lending Barmak his Arriflex camera and encouraging him to send the movie to international festivals, which eventually generated further funding from Japanese and Irish producers. Barmak received "UNESCO’s Fellini Silver Medal" for his drama, Osama, in 2003.

Barmak is also director of the Afghan Children Education Movement (ACEM), an association that promotes literacy, culture and the arts, which was also founded by Makhmalbaf. The school trains actors and directors for newly emerging Afghan cinema. Barmak is one of the celebrated figures in Persian cinema as well as the emerging cinema of Afghanistan.

Siddiq Barmak has acted in films with Greg Bryk, Masood Serwary, Abdul Ghafar Qoutbyar and Marina Golbahari.