Ziad Kalthoum is a filmmaker holding a degree in film studies, currently based in Berlin. In his medium-length documentary Oh My Heart (2009) he portrayed a group of Kurdish women, who have chosen to live in a society without men. During the outbreak of the Syrian revolution he began working on his first feature film The Immortal Seargant (Al-Rakib Al-Khaled, 2014) while serving a compulsory military service. The film had its premiere at the Locarno Film Festival. Refusing to fight his own people, he deserted from the Syrian Army in 2013 and fled to Beirut where he started to work on Taste of Cement.
IFF Bratislava
