Biography
Khaled Abdulwahed, born in 1975 in Syria, is an artist, photographer, and filmmaker based in Leipzig. Between 1996 and 2000 he studied Fine Arts and Graphic Design at Adham Ismail Art School in Damascus and at Frederick University in Nicosia. Between 2002 and 2008 he exhibited his artworks in the Middle East and Europe. From 2011 he directed and produced video artworks which were screened in many art spaces, festivals, universities, and TV channels over the world. In 2015 he was invited to Berlinale Talents. "Purple Sea" is his second collaboration with Amel Alzakout.
Source: 70. Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin (Catalogue)