M. Qahees
Mohammad Qahees looks down at papers beside production monitors during a nighttime film shoot.

Director and screenwriter

MohammadQahees

Syrian-Dutch filmmaker · Based in the Netherlands

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Practice

Migration, belonging, and public events seen through private lives.

Across these films, political pressure is experienced at human scale: through a family table, a workplace, a phone call, or a journey.

Fiction · Documentary · Television

Biography

Mohammad Qahees sits with a crew member beside a production monitor on a film set.
On set

Mohammad Qahees is a Syrian-Dutch director and screenwriter based in the Netherlands.

His practice developed through work as an assistant director in Turkey, followed by directing television programmes and short films.

He works across fiction, documentary, television, and independent film, with an interest in close observation and character-led stories.

Qahees graduated from HKU University of the Arts Utrecht. His recent films include Mamadou, Must We Go Back?, New Reality, One of the Three, and Birthday Gift.

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Contact

Screenings, commissions, and collaboration.

info@qahees.com

Studio

Ravenswade 212C
3439 LD, Nieuwegein
The Netherlands

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