Karar Hayder Abed

Karar is a film industry worker and a film director from Samawah, a small rural town in southern Iraq.

He studied cinema at the Academy of Fine Arts, University of Baghdad. He is interested in contemplative realist cinema characterized by minimalism.

His background as a sound recordist on several films and TV series, including Immortals (2024) and Prime Target (2025), has refined his directorial vision and deepened his understanding of the filmmaking process.