Aboozar Amini

Aboozar Amini (Bamiyan, Afghanistan) believes that the world of cinema is home for him. He received his M.A. degree in filmmaking at London Film School and B.A. degree in Fine Arts at the Art Academy in Amsterdam. His works is a visual landscapes coming from the mixture of conceptual arts and classic cinema. His graduation film KabulTehranKabul (2010) won the Wildcard Award of the Dutch Film Fund. He moved to London to continue his study. Supported by eight international scholarships, Aboozar was able to follow his MA in film making in 2012-2015 at the renowned London Film School (LFS) where theories of the aesthetic language of cinema, go hand in hand with practicing the process of making films under supervision of well-known filmmakers such as Mike Leigh and his team. He completed his M.A. degree at London Film School with Angelus Novus (2015) which premiered at International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) and won various awards worldwide. His universal identity brought him to China where he was the chief editor of five successful feature length documentaries. His latest short film Best Day Ever (2018) opened at La Quinzaine at Cannes 2018 as part of the Tunisia Factory. His first long documentary film Kabul, City in the Wind opened IDFA 2018 and won top awards worldwide.