la nature عش لتتعلم وتعلم كي تعيش , ثم علم الاخرين. - دوغلاس هورتون la nature الفن هو إعادة تشكيل الواقع المحيط وليس خلق واقع جديد. - ستانلي كوبرك la nature السينما هي كيفية أن تعيش أكثر من حياة .. حياة جديدة مع كل فيلم تشاهده. – روبرت التمان la nature الهدف من صنع فيلم، ليس صنع عمل جيد أو ردئ. الهدف هو أن تتعلم منه الكثير. - دوغلاس هورتون la nature وإن لم يأتيك ما أردت ، سيأتيك ما قد ينسيك كل ما أردت. - دوغلاس آدمز la nature

Festival President
Eng. Haider Jalwkhan

Festival Director
Director Hassanain Al-Hani

Artistic Director For the festival
Eng. Haider A. Al-Wahab

General Coordintor For the festival
Director Basheer Al-Majid

Al-Nahj Film Festival Preparation Committee

Film Coordinator
Ja'far Al-Adeeb

Programmer Website
Dr.Ali Fawzi Al-Shammari

Lgestic Director
Aws Tahir

Festival Site Manager
Abdulameer Taha

Public Relations
Saif Al-Shati

Transportation
Mustafa Baha'uddin

Video Editor
Hussein Al-Bawi

Host
Nihad Shirazi

Photographer
Murtadha Al-Nasrawi

Cameraman
Muhammed Al-Shammari

Video Technician
Jasim Al-Fatlawi

Sound Technician
Ali Abbas

Lingual Control
Salam Al-Rubai'ee

Intellectual Control
Muhammed Al-Samawi

Financial Correspondent
Dhiya'a Al-Mousawi

Decor
Mahir Gardala

Translator
Zaynab Ali Obayda

Film Selection Board

Faris Tu'ma Al-Tamimi
(Head of Selection Board)

Dr. Ali S. Salman
(Selection Board Member)

Hassan Kasim
(Selection Board Member)

Ahmed T. Jihad
(Selection Board Member)

Azzam S. Hadi
(Selection Board Member)

Film Jury

Dr. Salih Al-Sahan
(Head of Jury)

Basil Al-Khateeb
(Jury)

Dr. Khalid Chouket
(Jury)

Ra'ad Mushattat
(Jury)

Isma'il Barari
(Jury)

Animation Jury

Uday A. Ali
(Animation Jury)

Ala'a Kadhum
(Animation Jury)

Sadik Karemian
(Animation Jury)

Eng. Haider Jalwkhan

Bachelors degree in Electronic engineering. He is the General supervisor on The Karbalaa satellite channels group.

Director Hassanain Al-Hani

Bachelors degree at Cinematic Directing, University of Baghdad. He directed many international documentary films.

Director Basheer Al-Majid

An actor, director, and script writer. He has participated in several local and international film festivals.

Haider Al-Wahab

Bachelors degree in Engineering, worked in the coordination and schedule programming in Kerbala Satellite Channels Group

Faris Tu'ma Al-Tamimi

Member of the Iraqi artists syndicate and the Iraqi cinematographers union, won the prize of the best director in the second Iraqi TV and radio festival, best Iraqi drama director, he directed many important Iraqi drama series, lastly (Red Violet) in 2014.

Dr. Ali Sabah Salman

Masters and Philosophical degree in TV directing. Supervised and many doctoral and master thesis in the field of radio and television production, a scientific expert in many academic text books. Member of national and international juries of many festivals and events. Member of the the Iraqi artists syndicate and, Iraqi radio and TV syndicate, Iraqi photographers union and the cinematographers union.

Hassan Kasim

Manager in the Iraqi national TV and manager of Al-Salam radio and television, won the first prize of the novel innovation, has a novel, poetic group and an artistic criticism book published.

Azzam Salih Hadi

Member of the Iraqi artists syndicate, worked as a director in many Iraqi satellite channels, he has many participations in theatre.

Ahmed Thamir Jihad

Author and Cinematic critic, member of the Iraqi writers union, member of the Theatrical union, member of the national syndicate of the Iraqi journalists, worked for years in journalism and he has many cinematic and critic studies published in Arabic and foreign countries.

Dr. Salih Al-Sahan

Ph.D in Cinematic and TV art philosophy, director, has many cretic articles and books in the field of cinema, member of many film festival juries, supervised many anchormen and broadcasters qualification.

Basil Alkhateeb

Syrian director, author, cinematic and TV producer, son of the well-known poet Yousef Al-Khateeb, fouder and director of (Jawa Film) for Cinema and TV production in Damascus, has 7 short films, 6 long films, and 29 TV series directed.

Dr. Khalid Chouket

Tunisian former minister of parliament affairs, speaker of the government, former deputy president for media affairs.

Isma'il Barari

Iranian Cinematic director, born in 1966, got the bachelor’s degree in directing in 1988, master’s degree in 2013 and in 2016 he became a member in the youth cinema supervision group, he has many films made and directed.

Ra'ad Mushattat

Iraqi cinematic director, born in Baghdad, studied English literature, left to exile after the first gulf war, settled in London and studied cinema directing in its academies, has a series of documentaries, three short films, and a long film (Silence of the shepherd) directed. He is working now on his new film (Cellular Memory) which discusses everyday life violence in Baghdad.

Sadik Kareemian

Iranian producer and executive director of “Forsight media” company in Iran, producer of animation series “Sailors” and a corrispondant of “Al Mayadeen” channel in Lebanon, directed and produced many animation films for various media channels.

Ala'a Kadhum

Iraqi Professional Cartoonist, 2D Animator, Director, Professional Graphic Designer and Professional Comics maker, currently works as a professional graphic designer for the Media Department in Secretariat of the Council of the Ministers

Uday AbdulKazem Ali

Iraqi Designer and director, works as the head of animation dept. in Kerbala Satellite Channel Group. Made and directed many animated series, won two international prizes for short animated films, contributed in bringing the technology of motion capture to Iraq.

Ali Aziz

Iraqi Designer and director, works as the head of animation dept. in Kerbala Satellite Channel Group. Made and directed many animated series, won two interHas a Master's Degree in tourism administration Designer scribal since 2002, working as a designer for the festival at Karbala satellite channels group

Ali Al-Shammari

Has a bachelor’s degree in media He is the editor of the film festival He works in typesetting for the film festival, and programs planning at the artistic studies section of Karbala satellite channels group

Murtada Abdul Al-Rasul

Has a bachelor’s degree in media He is the Website editor of the Film festival. He also worked with the coordination unit at Karbala satellite channels group.

Burier Aziz Mahdi

Executive Director of the film festival. Has a Bachelor in TV directing Worked as a Television Production Manager at Karbala satellite channels group.