About

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Place of birth:
Iraq
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Kurdwin Ayub

Overview

Kurdwin Ayub was born in Iraq in 1990. Currently, she works as a director, screenwriter, and video and performance artist in Vienna, Austria. Studies in Painting and Animation with Christian Ludwig Attersee and Judith Eisler at the University for Applied Arts Vienna from 2008 to 2013. Since 2011, studies in Performing Arts with Carola Dertnig at the University of Fine Arts Vienna.

Her shorts have been shown and awarded at numerous international film festivals. In 2013, Ayub was awarded the Vienna Independent Short Newcomer Prize, in 2011 and 2012, she received the Viennale Mehrwert Short Film Prize. In 2012, she presented a series of her short films at the Viennale. Her feature documentary Paradise! Paradise! – direction, screenplay and cinematography by Ayub – won Best Camera at the Diagonale – Festival of Austrian Film, the New Waves Non Fiction Award at the Sevilla Festival de Cine Europeo and the Carte Blanche Prize of the Duisburger Filmwoche in 2016.

Known for

Acting
2022 Like Lucifer Actor Selbst N/A
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2016 Paradise! Paradise! Actor Herself N/A
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2012 Cat Power Actor N/A
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Directing
2024 Moon Directing Director N/A
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2022 Like Lucifer Directing Director N/A
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2022 Sun Directing Director 58
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2020 LOLOLOL Directing Director N/A
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2019 pretty-pretty Directing Director N/A
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2019 Armageddon Directing Director N/A
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2018 Boomerang Directing Director 59
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2016 Paradise! Paradise! Directing Director N/A
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2012 Cat Power Directing Director N/A
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2011 Sommerurlaub (Vaginale VII) Directing Director N/A
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Writing
2024 Moon Writing Writer N/A
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2019 Armageddon Writing Writer N/A
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2018 Boomerang Writing Writer 59
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2012 Cat Power Writing Writer N/A
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Camera
2016 Paradise! Paradise! Camera Director of Photography N/A
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Editing
2019 Armageddon Editing Editor N/A
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Visual Effects
2019 Armageddon Visual Effects Animation N/A
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