Josef Fares is a Crystal-Simorgh

Fajr International Film Festival

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 winning Swedish film director

Film director

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 with Assyrian/Syriac origin. His brother is the actor Fares Fares

Fares Fares

Fares Fares in Beirut, Lebanon, is a Swedish film actor with Assyrian/Syriac origin. He is the brother of film director Josef Fares, and has several times played major parts in his movies, including Jalla! Jalla! and Kopps. He has also starred in Bang Bang Orangutang and Kill Your Darlings...

, who has appeared in many of his films.

Josef Fares moved to Sweden

Sweden

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 when he was 10 years old and lives in Örebro

Örebro

-Sites of interest:Örebro's old town Wadköping is located on the banks of Svartån . It contains many 18th and 19th century wooden houses, along with museums and exhibitions....

, Örebro län.

Variety

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 declared him one of ten upcoming directors to watch in 2006. The same year he won the Nordic Council Film Prize

The Nordic Council Film Prize

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 for his film Zozo.

He also played the character of "Josef" in his last feature film Leo, which was selected for the Focus section in the 58th Edition of the Berlin International Film Festival

Berlin International Film Festival

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 in 2008.

Filmography

• Jalla! Jalla!
  Jalla! Jalla!
  Jalla! Jalla! is a 2000 Swedish comedy film directed by Josef Fares starring Fares Fares, Torkel Petersson, Tuva Novotny and Laleh Pourkarim as the main roles. Jalla! Jalla! is the debut film by Josef Fares and one of his most well-known...
  
  (2000)
• Kopps
  Kopps
  Kopps is a 2003 Swedish film directed by Josef Fares. The name itself is a pun on pronouncing the English word "Cops" with a Swedish accent....
  
  (2003)
• Zozo
  Zozo
  Zozo is a 2005 Swedish-Lebanese film about a Lebanese boy during the civil war, who gets separated from his family and ends up in Sweden. It was directed by Swedish-Lebanese director Josef Fares. The story is mostly inspired by Fares' real life immigration to Sweden during the war.The film was...
  
  (2005)
• Leo (2007)
• Farsan (2010)

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