Sallar Othman

Sallar Othman was born in Al-Hasaka, in Rojava Kurdistan in Northern Syria. There, he founded the theater group "Koma Ararat," where he worked as an actor and director. With Koma Ararat, he staged several critical plays against the Syrian government on the streets of Al-Hasaka. Due to the war in Syria, Othman fled to Europe, where he began his career as a filmmaker. He participated in significant film productions and attended various film and screenplay workshops. During this phase, he wrote and directed six short films, two of which were presented at international festivals. For the past two years, Othman has been working on his first feature film, "The Journey," receiving support from the ScriptLAB Fiction and the ÖFI. In 2023, Othman obtained a start-up scholarship from MA7 for his new project "We have a world to unite."