Kurdwin Ayub

Personal Info

Known For Director

Gender Female

Place of Birth Iraq

Kurdwin Ayub

Biography

Kurdwin Ayub was born in Iraq in 1990. Currently, she works as a director, screenwriter, and video and performance artist in Vienna, Austria. Studies in Painting and Animation with Christian Ludwig Attersee and Judith Eisler at the University for Applied Arts Vienna from 2008 to 2013. Since 2011, studies in Performing Arts with Carola Dertnig at the University of Fine Arts Vienna. Her shorts have been shown and awarded at numerous international film festivals. In 2013, Ayub was awarded the Vienna Independent Short Newcomer Prize, in 2011 and 2012, she received the Viennale Mehrwert Short Film Prize. In 2012, she presented a series of her short films at the Viennale. Her feature documentary Paradise! Paradise! – direction, screenplay and cinematography by Ayub – won Best Camera at the Diagonale – Festival of Austrian Film, the New Waves Non Fiction Award at the Sevilla Festival de Cine Europeo and the Carte Blanche Prize of the Duisburger Filmwoche in 2016.

Known For

Director

2024
Moon

as Director

2022
Sonne

as Director

2022
Like Lucifer

as Director

2020
LOLOLOL

as Director

2019
pretty-pretty

as Director

2019
Armageddon

as Director

2018
Boomerang

as Director

2016
2016
2012
Cat Power

as Director

Writer

2024
Moon

as Writer

2019
Armageddon

as Writer

2018
Boomerang

as Writer

2016
Paradise! Paradise!

as Screenplay

2012
Cat Power

as Writer

Actor

2022
Like Lucifer

as Selbst

2016

Camera

2016
Paradise! Paradise!

as Director of Photography

Visual Effects

2019
Armageddon

as Animation

Editor

2019
Armageddon

as Editor