Okil Khamidov

Born in Dushanbe, Tadzhik SSR, USSR (now in Tajikistan), he is a Tajik-Polish screenwriter, director and cinematographer, best known for creating the long-running sitcom Swiat wedlug Kiepskich (1999). He graduated a film operator course at the Moscow Institute of Cinematography. Khamidov's father Obid ran a movie production company in Tajikistan for many years. He has two brothers: Olim, a film expert, and Tolib, a director. He directed 14 movies in Tajikistan before moving to Poland in 1994. In 1999 he created Swiat wedlug Kiepskich, a sitcom that soon became a hit and only finished its run in 2022. He later moved on to work on serialized pseudo-documentaries, such as Trudne sprawy (2011) and Dlaczego ja? (2010). In 2003 he became a citizen of Poland. He has a son, Komil - who is a professional chess player, a professional poker player, and a rapper - and a daughter, Malika. He lives in Wroclaw.