Of Fathers and Sons

He was born in Damascus and has been based in Berlin since 2014. He studied Film Directing in Athens and worked as an assistant director on many feature film productions and was a director for different Arab TV programs between 2009 and 2011. In addition, he worked as a freelance cameraman for CNN and Thomson & Reuters. Talal Derki's short films and feature length documentaries have earned many awards at a variety of festivals. His feature documentary Return to Homs won the Sundance Film Festival’s World Cinema Grand Jury Prize in 2014. The same year, he was a member of the International Jury at IDFA.