Marcel Mettelsiefen

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Marcel Mettelsiefen is a German documentary filmmaker, cinematographer and producer. His documentaries have earned him critical appraisal and recognition. Among others, he has won four BAFTA awards and four Emmy awards, and was nominated for an Oscar in 2017 for Watani: My Homeland in the category of Best Documentary Short. In 2023, he won two BAFTA's for Children of the Taliban. In the same year, In Her Hands, was nominated for three Emmy awards, and won the award for Outstanding Politics & Government Documentary. Mettelsiefen has a background in photo journalism and has reported from across the Middle East and Afghanistan, and South America. He is the co-founder of the magazine Zenith, one of the leading publications about the Middle East and the Arab world in Germany, and is a founding member of the German non-for-profit organization Candid Foundation. Mettelsiefen studied political science and medicine at the Humboldt University in Berlin. Read more

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