Talal Derki

Talal Derki
طلال ديركي
Talal Derki in Mexico (2018)
Born
Talal Derki

(1977-07-24) July 24, 1977
Damascus, Syria.
EducationStavrakos High Institute of Cinematographic Art and Television Television
Occupations
  • Film director
  • producer
Years active2003–present

Talal Derki (Arabic: طلال ديركي Ṭālāl Dīrkī) is a Syrian Kurdish filmmaker best known for his award-winning documentaries The Return to Homs (2013) and Of Fathers and Sons (2017).[1]

Biography

Born in Damascus, Derki studied film directing in Athens at Stavrakos High Institute of Cinematographic Art and Television,[2] graduating in 2003. He worked as an assistant director for feature film productions and was a director for various Arab TV programs & TV films between 2009 and 2012. He also did freelance camera work for CNN and Thomson Reuters. He was nominated for Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature Film in 2018 and subsequently became a member of the Academy. He is the winner of the German Film Awards, Lola, in 2019. Talal Derki's short films and feature-length documentaries received tens of awards at various festivals. Both of his films Return to Homs and Of Fathers and Sons won the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance Film Festival 2014 and 2018.

Filmography

  • 2003 - Hello Damascus, goodbye Damascus, short fiction, 16mm (12min)
  • 2005 - A whole line of trees, short fiction, 35 mm (8min)
  • 2010 - Hero of All Seas, documentary (28min)
  • 2013 - Return to Homs, documentary (90min)
  • 2017 - Of Fathers and Sons, documentary (1h 39min)
  • 2018 - People of the Wasteland, short experimental, producer (21min)
  • 2023 - Under the Sky of Damascus, documentary (88min)

Awards & Nominations `Return To Homs´

Year Award Category Recipient Result
2013 International Documentary Film Festival (Amsterdam, Netherlands) Award for Best Feature-Length Documentary Talal Derki Nominated
2014 Festival Dokumentarnega Filma (Ljubljana, Slowenia) Amnesty International Award for Best Film on Human Rights Talal Derki Won
2014 Sundance Film Festival World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Documentary Talal Derki Won[3]
2014 San Francisco International Film Festival (San Francisco, USA) Golden Gate Award - Best Documentary Feature Talal Derki Nominated
2014 San Francisco International Film Festival (San Francisco, USA) Golden Gate Award - Special Jury Recognition Talal Derki Won[4]
2014 Middle East Now (Florence, Italia) Audience Award Talal Derki Won[5]
2014 Full Frame Documentary Film Festival (Durham, North Carolina) The Charles E. Guggenheim Emerging Artist Award Talal Derki Won[6]
2014 ZAGREBDOX Two special mentions Talal Derki Won[7]
2014 Festival International du Film des Droits de l´Homme (Geneva, Switzerland) Grand Prix de Jury Talal Derki Won[8]
2014 Festival International du Film des Droits de l´Homme (Paris, France) Grand Prix Jury Award, Student Jury Award Talal Derki Won[9]
2014 Doxa (Vancouver, Canada) Honorable Mention of the Jury Talal Derki Won[10]
2014 DocsBarcelona (Barcelona, Spain) Award DocsBarcelone Best Film Talal Derki Won
2014 Human Rights Watch Film Festival NY (New York, USA) Silver Horn for Director of Best Feature-Length Documentary Talal Derki Won
2014 Documenta Madrid Film Festival (Madrid, Spain) Audience Award Talal Derki Won
2014 Festival MakeDox Winner Young Onion Award Talal Derki Won
2014 EBS International Documentary Film Festival (Seoul, South Korea) Grand Prix, Jury Award Talal Derki Won
2014 Du festival des libertés (Brussel, Belgium) Grand prix for best documentary, Prix SmatBe Award Talal Derki Won
2014 Cinema Eye Honors Awards Nominated for Outstanding Achievement in Production AND Outstanding Achievement in a Debut Feature Film Talal Derki Won
2014 ABU DHABI FILM FESTIVAL (UAE) Special Mention Documentary Competition Talal Derki Won[11]
2014 Kraków Film Festival Cracow Students Jury Award - Documentary Competition Talal Derki Won[12]
2014 Kraków Film Festival Silver Horn Best Feature-Length Documentary Talal Derki Won[12]
2015 The George Polk Awards (USA) Best Documentary Talal Derki Won
2015 Roma Independent Film Festival (Italy) Special mention Documentary Competition Talal Derki Won

References

  1. ^ Zack Sharf (January 10, 2019). "'Of Fathers and Sons' Director Talal Derki Denied U.S. Visa, Missing Awards Season Events — Exclusive". IndieWire. Retrieved January 12, 2026.
  2. ^ "Talal Derki". Leuphana University of Luneberg. Retrieved January 12, 2026.
  3. ^ Yamato, Dominic Patten,Jen; Patten, Dominic; Yamato, Jen (January 26, 2014). "Sundance Awards: 'Whiplash' & 'Rich Hill' Win Grand Jury Prizes; Dramatic Directing Goes To Cutter Hodierne For 'Fishing Without Nets'". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved January 22, 2019.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  4. ^ "57TH SAN FRANCISCO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL WINNERS". sffs.org. Archived from the original on June 26, 2014. Retrieved June 27, 2014.
  5. ^ "Talal Derki's 'Return to Homs' wins Middle East Now - Italy". Ansamed.info. Archived from the original on November 15, 2017. Retrieved January 22, 2019.
  6. ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on March 4, 2016. Retrieved July 26, 2015.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  7. ^ "10th ZagrebDox Winners Announced! / News / 2014 / ZAGREBDOX International documentary film festival". Zagrebdox.net. Archived from the original on November 15, 2017. Retrieved January 22, 2019.
  8. ^ "Festival du film et forum international sur les droits humains - FIFDH Genève". Fifdh.org. Retrieved January 22, 2019.
  9. ^ "Paris". Festival-droitshumains.org. Retrieved January 22, 2019.
  10. ^ "DOXA Documentary Film Festival". Doxafestival.ca. Retrieved January 22, 2019.
  11. ^ "Awards". Sanadfilmfuind.com. Retrieved January 22, 2019.
  12. ^ a b "The Winners of the 54th Krakow Film Festival". sffs.org. Archived from the original on June 27, 2014. Retrieved June 27, 2014.
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